Professional Learning
Whether you're a pK-12 teacher, professor, naturalist, interpreter, ranger, riverkeeper, environmental educator, curriculum developer, or student, there are professional learning resources in this curated collection that can help 'up your game.' In addition, Environmental Education Alliance is offering a series of workshops in 2020-21. Watch this space for details.
Make 2021 the year you become a certified Environmental Educator!
Serious about increasing your capacity for teaching through an environmental lens? Ready to engage students in real-world investigations? Get certified as an environmental educator through ATEEG: the Environmental Education Alliance's nationally-accredited professional learning program.
Take advantage of these exciting professional learning events . . .
EEA's Outdoor Learning Symposium will take place Saturday, October 17th. EEA members can choose to pay from $0 - $25 to attend. And the fall membership special makes it possible for anyone to become an EEA member for free. So join us and discover how outdoor learning can be an asset during the epidemic and an exciting, effective way to engage students all year round!
The annual NAAEE Conference (North American Association of Environmental Educators) will take place October 13 - 16, 2020. This wide-ranging and exciting conference usually costs upwards of $300 + travel to attend, but this year's virtual sessions are available for as little as $25. It will never be this cheap to attend NAAEE again - don't miss this chance!
And join us for EEA's recurring conferences and symposia
EEA Annual Conference
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EEA's CoOL Outdoor Learning Symposium
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EEA's MAG Pollinator Symposium
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Discover Best Practices through the Guidelines for Excellence in EE
The Environmental Education Alliance promotes best practices in environmental ed through our Guidelines Trainers Bureau, which offers professional learning workshops, self-paced courses (currently in development), and technical assistance to schools, environmental ed providers, and others. The Guidelines project was created by NAAEE and coordinated by Bora Simmons with feedback from all over the world. Read or download copies of each set of the Guidelines by clicking in the sections below:
Guidelines for excellence: EE in K-12 learning
Guidelines for excellence in EE Materials
Guidelines for excellence in professional learning for environmental educators
Guidelines for excellence in non-formal EE PRograms
Guidelines for excellence in early childhood ee programs
Guidelines for Excellence in Community engagement
EEA Guidelines trainers BUREAU and facilitators
Get certified in Project WET, Project Wild and Project Learning Tree!
These classic environmental education workshops are as effective in making teachers feel comfortable outside as they are in providing curriculum resources and offering strategies for managing students. Each workshop provides a curriculum book to participants.
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Help students solve environmental problems with G.R.E.A.T. Projects
Students of high school environmental science are often distressed and disengaged by learning about negative human impacts on the earth. Research shows that an antidote to this despair can be found in graduated challenges that allow students to identify and solve bite-sized real-world problems. "Project-based learning" (PBL) empowers students to make a difference in the world. Captain Planet Foundation offers a storyline-style, scaffolded approach to PBL called G.R.E.A.T. Projects that incorporates phenomenon-based three-dimensional learning and offers students "voice and choice" in designing and directing the work.
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Increase your skills in leading outdoor science
Beetles offers virtual, self-paced professional learning sessions for program leaders of outdoor science investigations. K-12 teachers and non-formal educators will benefit from these 2 - 3 hour modules.
Build your skills and increase your capacity to lead environmental education in outdoor settings.
Build your skills and increase your capacity to lead environmental education in outdoor settings.
Assessing for learning
Constructing understanding
Evidence and explanations
field journaling
making observations
Nature and practices of science
promoting discussion
questioning strategies
teaching and learning
Outdoor science experiences for students
other resources for K-12 teachers
About beetles
Check out STEM Practice Briefs for Culturally Responsive Teaching
The STEM Teaching Tools were developed as part of a National Science Foundation Grant initiative by Philip Bell.
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Brief 15: Promoting Equity in Science Education
Brief 25: culturally responsive argumentation
Brief 54: equitable learning in the science classroom
brief 55: making cultural diversity visible in stem
Brief 57: How place-based education supports equity
Professional Learning based on STEM Teaching Tools
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Build capacity to lead field investigations
The Pacific Education Institute promotes high impact field experiences and real-world science for all students, in an effort to advance scientific literacy and sound decision-making for a sustainable world.
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dESIGNING HIGH IMPACT FIELD EXPERIENCES
ngss aligned field investigations
PRoject-based Learning investigations
Schoolyard biodiversity investigations
fostering outdoor observation skills
technology for field investications
Field engineering projects for grades K - 5
field engineering projects for grades 6 - 12
K-3 Schoolyard investigations
solution-oriented storylines
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Brush up on Content Knowledge in Environmental Ed Topics
Bozeman Science and The Wonder of Science web sites, created by science teacher Paul Andersen, provide short videos explaining every topic taught in Environmental Science, as well as core ideas related to each Next Generation Science Standard (NGSS) at every grade level. [Although Georgia did not adopt the NGSS, there is substantial overlap in topics and content. ]
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