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COUNCIL OF OUTDOOR LEARNING
CoOL Toolkit: Plan - Assets and Needs

What is CoOL?

The Council of Outdoor Learning (CoOL) is an EEA initiative that focuses on the design, development, use, and sustainability of outdoor learning environments on school campuses. CoOL provides tips and techniques for those who want to create outdoor classrooms or learning stations, hosts an annual symposium to share resources and strategies for teaching outdoors, curates a collection of outdoor learning activities that are integrated with state standards, and provides professional learning workshops, resources and webinars for teachers and non-formal educators.
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Schoolyard Audits

How can you know what you need, before you know what you've got? Schoolyard audits are one way to to take note of physical assets and identify missing elements for an outdoor learning program on campus. Here are several types of audits. Choose one or all of them to complete.

 EcoSchools USA Schoolyard Habitats Audit

This audit was designed to help students and teachers determine whether there are areas on campus that could support native wildlife. The process involves identifying essential components of a healthy habitat and then surveying the schoolyard to search for them. If there are some areas with potential but missing components, it is suggested that these gaps might generate ideas for student projects. 

What's Good in My Hood

This is an asset-based neighborhood audit for urban areas. Author Akiima Price intended for students to conduct the audit and to learn about their community and how it connects with nature, in the process. Learn more about Akiima Price and the Urban Environmental Collective.

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Schoolyard Habitat Project Guide

Environmental Pathway Audits

The National Wildlife Federation offers a number of audit pathways that student teams can use to discover how sustainable their school is in terms of consumption, waste, energy use, wildlife habitat, transportation, watersheds, food, and many other categories. 
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Make a Master Plan

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Drawing on survey results, your map of campus assets and needs, any environmental audits that students have conducted, as well as any design constraints (such as planned locations of future buildings or modular classrooms, location of underground utilities, and safety hazards), create a master plan that focuses on your campus assets and prioritizes highly-needed improvements. Divide the plan into bite-sized chunks so that volunteers, civic groups, and the school community has an easy-to-follow blueprint for what is needed.

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The Environmental Education Alliance of Georgia 
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  • Our Story
    • About EEA
      • About Env Ed
      • About Env Stewardship
      • About Env Justice
    • About Our Organizational Members
    • About Our History
  • Our Finances
  • Our Team
    • Advisory Council
    • Board Portal
      • 2019-20 EEA Board & Staff
    • Strategic Plan 2017
  • Our Resources
    • CoOL Earth Month Activities
    • Virtual EE Resources
    • COVID Response
    • Issues & Initiatives
      • Guidelines for Excellence in EE
      • Community Science
      • Culturally Responsive EE
      • EE and Higher Ed
  • Our Work
    • Professional Learning
    • Our Conferences
      • EEA Annual Conference
      • Outdoor Learning Symposium
      • Pollinator Symposium
      • SEEA Conference
      • NAAEE Conference
    • ATEEG
      • ATEEG: Why Get Certified?
      • ATEEG Certification Advisory Board
      • ATEEG CAB Portal
        • ATEEG Presentation
        • ATEEG CAB Info Packet
        • ATEEG Responsibilities
        • ATEEG Budget
        • ATEEG Framework
        • ATEEG Reports to NAAEE
        • ATEEG Meeting Notes
        • ATEEG Course 1
        • ATEEG Course 2
        • ATEEG Course 3
    • CoOL
      • CoOL RESEARCH on Outdoor Learning
      • CoOL AWARDS & GRANTS
      • CoOL ToolKit ToC
      • CoOL Toolkit PLAN - Survey
      • CoOL Toolkit PLAN - Map
      • CoOL Toolkit PLAN Audits
      • CoOL Toolkit SPACES for Outdoor Learning
      • CoOL Toolkit METHODS for Teaching Outside
      • CoOL Toolkit SUSTAIN
      • CoOL Toolkit COVID
    • Monarchs Across GA
      • MAG Awards
      • Mexico Book Project
      • Pollinator Habitats
        • Pollinator Habitat Grants
        • Pollinator Habitat Certification
      • MAG Resources
        • Buy Milkweed
      • Symbolic Migration
      • MAG Volunteers
      • MAG Events
    • EEA Memorial Forest
    • Awards and Grants
  • Our Events
  • JOIN or GIVE
    • Make a Donation
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  • News, issues & Events
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