Internet Resources:[top] Search Engine Watch:
Search engine watch is the authoritative guide to searching at Internet search engines and search
engine registration and ranking issues. Search engine watch is devoted to how search engines work,
search engine news and information, tips on using and submitting search engine. http://searchenginewatch.com/
Finding Resources On The Internet:
A Trainer's Module For Environmental Education: Finding resources on the Internet: a trainer's module
for environmental education is a training guide for educators to help them learn how to search the
web and then, in turn, be better equipped for helping their students find the "right" resources. www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~eetap/pdf/trainers.pdf
Environmental Monitoring (GLOBE):[top] GLOBE Program:
GLOBE is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based education and science program. Global
learning and observations to benefit the environment shares environmental research. With news, a data
archive, and an educators' forum. www.globe.gov
Automated Air And Soil Temperature Protocol:
The purpose of this activity is to measure soil and air temperature continuously at a common site.
Students will gain insight into the use of automated monitoring equipment and learn to manipulate
extensive, multivariable data sets. Students learn to create spreadsheets, time series graphs, and
use them in data analyses.
(16 Pages) http://archive.globe.gov/sda/tg02/monitor.pdf
Aerosol Protocol:
The purpose of this activity is to measure the aerosol optical thickness of the atmosphere (how much of
the sun's light is scattered or absorbed by particles suspended in the air) students learn what causes
hazy skies and the concept that only some of the sun's light reaches earth surface.
(30 Pages) http://archive.globe.gov/sda/tg02/aerosol.pdf
Surface Ozone Protocol:
The purpose of this activity is to measure ozone concentrations at ground level direction. Students learn
what causes hazy skies and the concept that only some of the sun's light reaches earth surface.
(18 Pages) http://archive.globe.gov/sda/tg02/ozone.pdf
Cloud Protocol:
The purpose of this activity to observe cloud type and cover. Students learn how to make estimates from
observations and how to categorize specific clouds following general descriptions for the categories.
Students learn the meteorological concepts of cloud heights, types, and cloud cover and learn the ten
basic cloud types.
(16 Pages) http://archive.globe.gov/sda/tg02/clouds.pdf
Environmental Education:[top] Environmental Education Outreach Program:
The Environmental Education Outreach Program is part of the Institute For Tribal Environmental Professionals
(Itep) at Northern Arizona University. The purpose of the Environmental Education Outreach Program (EEOP)
is to interest Native American students in environmental careers and to assist schools in improving environmental science literacy. www.nau.edu/eeop
Arizona Association for Environmental Education (AAEE):
The Arizona Association for Environmental Education (AAEE) is a nonprofit organization working to enhance the quality of environmental education in Arizona and to advance professionalism among all who are involved with environmental education, whatever the topic or setting. www.arizonaee.org/
Environmental Education Materials: Guidelines For Excellence:
Guidelines For Excellence is a set of recommendations for developing and selecting environmental education
materials. These guidelines aim to help developers of activity guides, lesson plans, and other instructional
materials produce high quality products and to provide educators with a tool to evaluate the wide array
of available environmental education materials. www.naaee.org/npeee/materials_guidelines/intro.html
The North American Association For Environmental Education (NAAEE):
The North American Association For Environmental Education (NAAEE) is a network of professionals, students,
and volunteers working in the field of environmental education throughout North America and in over 55
countries around the world. Since 1971, the association has promoted environmental education and supported
the work of environmental educators. There are many environmental interest groups, and many organizations
dedicated to improving education. NAAEE uniquely combines and integrates both of these perspectives, and
takes a cooperative, nonconfrontational, and scientifically-balanced approach to promoting education about environmental issues. www.naaee.org
The National Project For Excellence In Environmental Education:
The National Project For Excellence In Environmental Education, initiated by the North American Association
For Environmental Education (NAAEE) In 1993, is attempting to answer that question. Environmental education
is a process that aims to develop an environmentally literate citizenry that can compete in our global
economy; has the skills, knowledge, and inclinations to make well-informed choices; and exercises the rights
and responsibilities of members of a community. www.naaee.org/npeee/
Environmental Education And Training Partnership:
"Advancing Education And Environmental Literacy" EETAP'S mission is to deliver training and support services to education professionals to advance education
and environmental literacy in the United States. EETAP will pursue this mission through three major program areas in 2002-2003. www.epa.gov/enviroed/eetap.html
USEPA-Office Of Environmental Education:
The office of environmental education mission is to advance and support education efforts that develop an
environmentally conscious and responsible public. The goal of the OEE is to ensure that Environmental
Education (EE) is a recognized and appropriately utilized tool for protecting human health and the environment. www.epa.gov/enviroed/index.html
Needs Assessment and Planning:[top] EPA's , Community Cultural And The Environment: A Guide To Understanding A Sense Of Place:
A guide to understanding a sense of place is a flexible toolbox for understanding the social dynamics involved in community-based efforts. Users will learn
about such things as local knowledge about community issues, the language community members use,
influential subgroups within the community, historical trends in the community, environmental and
other community priorities, and other social factors. This information is crucial in developing
sustainable strategies for community participation and planning regarding environmental protection.
(each participant will receive a copy of publication)
[56K] www.epa.gov/ecocommunity/tools/community03.pdf
Download:
The Community Culture And The Environment: A Guide To Understanding A Sense Of Place - www.epa.gov/ecocommunity/pdf/ccecomplete.pdf
Environmental Planning For Small Communities (TRILOGY):
Environmental planning for small communities offers a complete one-stop introduction to a wide range of
environmental issues and decisions that affect small to medium-sized communities. It offers communities
the chance to judge their own needs and preferences, and to make informed decisions on their own. www.epa.gov/seahome/trilogy.html
"Community How To Guide On Needs Assessment And Strategic Planning":
A comprehensive needs assessment is the critical first step a coalition or organization must take in order
to develop an effective and successful program. This "Community How To Guide On Needs Assessment And
Strategic Planning," details the elements of a needs assessment. The national highway traffic safety
administration (NHTSA) developed this community guide, to assist cities, counties, and neighborhoods
address fundamental components of planning and implementing a comprehensive underage drinking prevention program. www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/alcohol/community%20guides%20html/book2_needsassess.html
Native American Lands Curriculum:[top] Native American Lands Curriculum:
The center for Indian community development at Humboldt state university produced this 52-lesson curriculum
for grades 1 through 12 under a grant from EPA. Tribal leaders, educators, and the public identified the
goals of the project. The curriculum adapts elements from other waste management instructional materials,
but adds several original activities specifically to meet the needs of rural Native American children. It
is designed to be empowering and emphasizes cultural themes. www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/tribal/educout.htm
Air Quality Learning Activities:[top] Air Quality Curriculum Project (AQCP):
Air Quality Curriculum Project (AQCP) is an educational program implemented by the Environmental Educational
Outreach Program (EEOP) at Northern Arizona University (NAU). The goal of AQCP is to provide a supplement to
USEPA'S Project A.I.R.E. Curriculum that is tribally focused, culturally sensitive and teacher friendly.
The AQCP develops sample case studies for teachers and students to use to investigate their local air
quality issues. The AQCP resources pages provide published, tribal, and internet resources on air quality
issues as well as supplemental student activities. www.nau.edu/eeop/aqcp/
Project A.I.R.E.:
Project A.I.R.E (Air Information Resources For Educators) was developed in 1994, by EPA to focus the
attention of elementary, junior high, and high school students on air pollution issues: air quality,
rainforests, radon, the creation of environmental laws, the greenhouse effect and ozone. The units
in this package were designed to help students think more critically and creatively about air pollution
problems and the alternatives for resolving them. Additionally, they are designed to encourage more epa
employees to volunteer their time to assist teachers in introducing environmental science into their
classrooms. To show the relevance and utility of the concepts and skills underlying these units beyond
the classroom, we have made an effort to link each of the units with actual occupations in epa and in
other workplaces. Many of the units challenge students to extrapolate the real world applications from
the information presented. www.epa.gov/region01/students/teacher/aire.html
A-Way With Waste Curriculum:
The A-Way With Waste Curriculum was written and developed by the Washington State Department of Ecology with
written contributions and expertise provided by teachers, principals, environmental educators, citizen
organizations, businesses, industries, and local and state government representatives. Each classroom
activity was written, reviewed, revised, and then field-tested in Washington classrooms by teachers.
Activities were finalized based on field test and review commentary before being included in the curriculum.
The activities, written for grades k-12, are interdisciplinary and action oriented. They provide
opportunities for students to participate in cooperative problem solving and decision-making tasks
involving waste management, litter control, and science, technology, and society. Information and fact
sheets introduce each section. State and national waste management legislation, regulation, research and
survey information is included. The curriculum also contains a glossary of terms. www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/air/aawwaste/awwwhome.html
Native American Lands Curriculum:
The Center For Indian Community Development At Humboldt State University produced this 52-lesson curriculum
for grades 1 through 12 under a grant from EPA. Tribal leaders, educators, and the public identified the
goals of the project. The curriculum adapts elements from other waste management instructional materials,
but adds several original activities specifically to meet the needs of rural Native American children. It
is designed to be empowering and emphasizes cultural themes. www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/tribal/educout.htm
Teaching and How to Change Behavior, ie, Learning:[top] Michigan Reach Out! - Teaching And Learning Research:
The Website Is Part Of The University Of Michigan Reach Out! Program, their mission is to create a link
between college and community. There are lots of tools listed to help you diagnose, in yourself or your
students, personal learning styles, personality and temperament differences, strengths and weaknesses in
a multiple intelligences framework-and the educational implications of all these aspects of individuals.
There are also plenty of ideas on alternative assessments, effective learning climates, course design,
and so forth. www.reachoutmichigan.org/tchlrn.html
Ecological Education In Action: On Weaving Education, Culture, And The Environment:
Ecological Education In Action: On Weaving Education, Culture, And The Environment is an effort to
distinguish the efforts described here from more common forms of environmental education. Ecological
education requires viewing human beings as one part of the natural world and human cultures as an
outgrowth of interactions between our species and particular places. http://www.netlibrary.com/
(Log In EEOP, Password EEOP, The Book Is In The Favorites)
Observing Locally, Connecting Globally (OLCG):
The Observing Locally, Connecting Globally (OLCG) Project is funded by the National Science Foundation
through a grant to the University Of Alaska Fairbanks entitled "global change education using western
science and native observations." the overall goal of our three-year program is to provide Alaskan teachers
and students opportunities to engage in original global change research and to promote global change
education in Alaska. These research studies address the need for locally relevant, inquiry-oriented
science education appropriate for the diverse multi-graded and multicultural teaching situations in Alaska. www.uaf.edu/olcg/summer/stephens.html
Planning and Conducting Effective Public Meetings:
Successful public meetings first and foremost require planning. Meetings not planned well often leave
participants feeling frustrated and believing that attending the meeting was a waste of time. This website
contain some ideas for how to prepare for a successful public meeting. http://ohioline.osu.edu/cd-fact/1555.html
Conducting Effective Public Meetings:
Meetings are the means by which a person or group can exercise choice and affect outcomes. Generally, there
are two different types of meetings that a local government will focus on. These are decision or policy-making
meetings and information sharing meetings (either to get public comments or brainstorming work sessions).
The purpose of meetings is to hear from all concerned parties and ensure that all opinions are considered in
the decision making process. www.dced.state.ak.us/dca/LOGON/offc/offc-meet.htm
Conducting Meetings:
Why are there so many bad meetings? Poor planning by the meeting's organizer and a lack of involvement by
the participants. Listed in this website are some guidelines for conducting effective meetings. www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/leadmet.html
Effective Meetings:
Whether you're a newcomer to meetings or a seasoned pro, the EffectiveMeetings.com resource center offers
hands-on meeting advice for every possible situation. Plus, our sage advisor, the Meeting Guru, will help
solve your meeting dilemmas. www.effectivemeetings.com/
How To Make Presentations:
The most common ways to make others aware of your work is by publishing the results in a journal article,
or by giving an oral or poster presentation. This website provides tips on doing a effective presentation. www.meap.org/html/SR_Howtopresent.asp
Media Literacy Clearinghouse:
The Media Literacy Clearinghouse is a collections of web pages designed for K-12 educators who want to:
learn more about media literacy, integrate it into classroom instruction and make their students more
media aware. http://medialit.med.sc.edu/
Minding The Media:
In this lesson students will explore the relationship between media and activism. They will critically
examine the ways in which the media covers news events. They will research varied components of media,
and examine the differences between mainstream and non-mainstream media coverage of selected events. www.kqed.org/w/baywindow/ruckus/minding.html
Society Of Environmental Journalism:
The Society Of Environmental Journalists is the only u.s.- based membership organization of working
journalists dedicated to improvements in environmental reporting. SEJ programs are designed to build
a stronger, better-educated, and more closely connected network of professional journalists and editors
who cover the environment and environment-related issues. www.sej.org/
Indian Country Today:
National newspaper published weekly provides headline news and a look at its origin. Also find a Pow Wow directory and subscription details. www.indiancountry.com
Turtle Island News:
Weekly purports to be North America's premier native newspaper. Addresses native issues for the Six
Nations of the Grand River Territory. www.theturtleislandnews.com
Reznet Online Native Newspaper:
Reznet - Online native newspaper online newspaper will give Native American students a voice -- and
journalism experience amanda Jo Wauneka is a young a Navajo woman, and when she gets out of college
she wants to be a journalist. www.reznetnews.org/
Elders And Cultural Camps As Educational Resources:
Elders And Subsistence Camps are an important part of native life throughout Alaska. One of the strategies
is proving most successful in connecting the school curriculum to students lives in culturally and
educationally meaningful ways is through the involvement of native elders as teachers and the real-world
setting of a subsistence camp environment as the classroom. www.ankn.uaf.edu/elders.html
Curriculums:[top] PROJECT WILLOW:
Project Willow is a hands-on science curriculum that represents a radical departure from the traditional
"hands-off" textbook approach to elementary science education. This curriculum was designed to introduce
fourth graders to basic environmental science concepts from the perspective of the Washoe Indians. It
traces Washoe encounters with the local environment in both traditional and modern times. http://www.unr.edu/nnap/pw/pw_main.htm
GLOBE Program:
GLOBE is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based education and science program. Global
Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment shares environmental research. With news, a data
archive, and an educators' forum. www.globe.gov
Project W.E.T.:
Reaching children, parents, educators, and communities of the world with water education you will find
current information here about programs, events and publications as well as how to contact a project WET
coordinator near you. www.projectwet.org
Project Learning Tree - PLT:
PLT uses the forest as a "window" on the world to increase students' understanding of our environment;
stimulate students' critical and creative thinking; develop students' ability to make informed decisions
on environmental issues; and instill in students the commitment to take responsible action on behalf of
the environment. www.plt.org
Full Option Science System (FOSS):
FOSS is an elementary school science program developed at the Lawrence Hall of Science with support from
the National Science Foundation. FOSS program materials are designed to meet the challenge of providing
meaningful science education for all students in diverse American classrooms and to prepare them for life
in the 21st century. http://lhsfoss.org/
Science Education for Public Understanding Program (SEPUP):
The Science Education for Public Understanding Program designs, develops, and disseminates science education
materials both year-long courses and module that promote scientific literacy and enhance the role of students
as independent thinkers and active participants in science and society. www.sepuplhs.org/
For more information, please contact:
Mansel Nelson
928-523-1275 Mansel.Nelson@nau.edu
