For EE ProvidersEnvironmental Education Providers ("ee providers") including nature centers, parks, botanical gardens, zoos, aquariums, public agencies such as 4-H, UGA Extension, or other government offices, and non-profit organizations may propose projects for schools to complete, on or off campus, including field trips.
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For SchoolsTeachers are welcome to propose projects for points too! Just describe the project, identify the role of students in directing and completing the work, and submit your idea. EEA will consider all proposed projects and provide feedback on points eligibility as soon as possible.
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Students will adopt a set of protocols designed to keep them safe and to ensure productivity without reducing opportunities to explore and investigate. These include ways of traveling together, starting every outdoor adventure with quiet observations and journaling, exploring safely within boundaries, returning when called back, leaving no trace behind, staying with partner, learning to identify and avoid potential hazards such as poison ivy and fire ant mounds, etc.
Timeframe: Variable Cost: Most likely free Difficulty: Easy Points: 10 |
Sponsored by Environmental Education Alliance
Description: Students explore nature on school grounds (or during an off-campus field trip). This may be a loosely structured activity such as a class nature walk with serendipitous teachable moments, or an adventure that includes field observations, sketching, writing, a scavenger hunt, or another form of investigation and discovery that sparks curiosity and engagement with nature. Timeframe: Variable Cost: Most likely free Difficulty: Easy Points: 10 |
Sponsored by EEA's Monarchs Across Georgia
Description: Children in the US and Canada make symbolic monarch butterfly "ambassadors" that are sent south to Mexican schools in the fall. Symbolic butterflies are sent to US and Canadian schools in the spring, modelling the other half of the migration cycle. Timeframe: fall until 2024 - deadlines Sep 30 and Oct 18 Cost: $15 - $20 per class Difficulty: Easy Points: 10 |
Sponsored by EEA and GA Department of Natural Resources / Wildlife Div.
Description: Children observe wildlife in the schoolyard by searching for evidence of animals, watching feeders, building blinds, creating habitats, installing wildlife or nest cameras, listening for bird or frog calls, conducting bio-blitzes or participating in SEEK challenges, or other means. A variety of lessons and activities below engage students in documenting their observations by drawing and journaling, collecting data, and analyzing the presence and absence of native species they may have expected to find. Timeframe: ongoing project Cost: $0 - $75 Difficulty: Easy to Medium Points: 5 for observation; 15 for full wildlife lesson sequence linked below; 25 for using data and observations to restore habitat for wildlife in schoolyard |
Sponsored by Doug Tallamy's Homegrown National Park
Description: Students research and select a native species to plant: just one tree or one container of flowers ~ and enter it on a map of plantings across the country that collectively make a patchwork "homegrown national park." Cost: $0- $250 Difficulty: Easy Points: 10 |
Sponsored by EEA's Georgia Schoolyard Forest Network
Description: Students plant 5 - 10 native trees in cluster(s) on campus to provide shade for outdoor learning experiences, lower the temperature, sequester carbon, support wildlife, and provide a setting for nature investigations. Cost: $0- $250 for plants Difficulty: Moderate Points: 10 for assessing campus and making a planting plan 15 for planting native species to restore an ecosystem |
Sponsored by Monarchs Across Georgia (an EEA committee)
Description: Students research and select native species to plant to attract pollinators such as butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds. Both larval and adult forms of butterflies should be supported by an array of plants that bloom during three seasons. Cost: $0- $250 Difficulty: Moderate Points: 25 |
Sponsored by National Wildlife Federation, Georgia (NWF)
Description: Students will assess their campus in terms of its suitability for wildlife habitat and take action to improve the schoolyard by providing sources of water, food, shelter, and places to raise young, as needed. National Wildlife Federation's EcoSchools Program offers a broader certification program aligned with UN sustainability goals, and each milestone along the way can earn points in the CoOL Schoolyard program. Cost: $0 - ? Difficulty: Moderate Points: 10 - 25 |
Sponsored by UGA Extension
Description: Students identify and collect data on insects visiting plants on two specific days in fall 2024. In the following week, they identify the general type of species observed and submit their data. Timeframe: August 2024 Cost: None Difficulty: Easy Points: 5 |
Environmental Education Alliance, Inc.
P.O. Box 801066 | Acworth, GA 30101 EEA does not does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability in its program , activities, or employment. For more information on EEA's non-discrimination commitment click here . Grievance officer may be contacted at [email protected] |
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