Blog
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By completing a mini-MWEE, educators shared skills and innovated ways to implement a Meaningful Watershed Education Experience program this school year. Learn more in the latest Watershed Chronicles.
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Getting from changing minds to changing behavior is a challenge all environmental educators face. By providing our audiences with ownership over their actions—and consequences—we can successfully meet this challenge. Learn how New Orleans' teens did just that.
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The Sustainable Earth Educator Awards is thrilled to recognize 19 educators across the country. Learn more about the awardees and two projects.
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In the latest Watershed Chronicle, community organizations partnered with Texas middle schools to enhance watershed STEM learning in an after-school program, giving students creative space to express their knowledge of local ecosystems in various visual art projects.
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Join us for our return to an in-person gathering in beautiful Tucson or participate online with our virtual program. NAAEE’s 2022 conference will focus on the powerful role education can play in creating healthier communities and tackling today’s complex environmental and social issues. Register…
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In the latest eeBLUE Harvest Stories, Maine Sea Grant and partners work together to make new aquaculture learning opportunities accessible to more than just the coast.
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Visit the B-WET 20th-anniversary website for stories that illustrate how the B-WET program has impacted students, schools, and communities over the past 20 years. And look for B-WET posts highlighting #BWET20andGROWING on NOAA Education’s social media and B-WET’s Facebook page on August 8-19.
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Environmental educator Danny Woolums shares how Lexington youth are connecting with their communities and local ecosystems through the CEE-Change Fellowship.
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In the latest Watershed Chronicle, Executive Director Susan McClure shares how Lake Champlain Maritime Museum brings together informal educators and families to enrich watershed learning through lake stewardship.
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Mangroves are sea life nurseries, protectors of coastal communities, and climate change heroes. What E-STEAM methodologies can we use to teach our students about mangrove forests?
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In the classrooms at Woodland Pond School, CEE-Change Fellow Aubrae Filipiak uses the KWL discussion framework to introduce new ideas. This stands for Know Wonder Learn and allows students to explore concepts from a place of curiosity while bringing to bear their lived experiences. Aubrae Filipiak…
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Mobile gaming can play a powerful role in engaging players by framing conversations to increase wildlife empathy.
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Through two international sharing sessions, students in the United States met with seven student teams in Africa who described the innovative projects they developed to overcome environmental and public health challenges in their communities.
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With the help of a few happy clams, shellfish aquaculture and its role in economic resilience blooms in this blog post.
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How can we help Climate Change when we don't understand how we fit in with our surroundings? Here are some resources that can help.
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Deadline: August 8. Do you know of an individual or organization that has accomplished great things in environmental education? You probably do! This is your chance to recognize the wonderful work of incredibly hardworking individuals and organizations for the benefit of the environment.
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CEE-Change Fellow Lisa Yeager shares her own story of growth and problem-solving when she found her role as a zoo docent including difficult discussions.
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Deadline: July 11, 2022. NAAEE interviewed Satheeshkumar Kumarasingam, Pratt & Whitney's chief transformation & strategy officer and executive champion of the Pratt & Whitney E-STEM Awards, to learn more about E-STEM and the program.
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Read an overview of this year's appropriations work and learn about a new K–12 climate change education policy report.
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Washington passes outdoor school for all legislation. Maine passes climate literacy bill. Maryland secures extension for green schools funding.
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The Youth Outdoor Policy Partnership tracks state policies that support getting kids outside everywhere they live, learn, work, and play. This report highlights policy trends and summarizes specific bills and initiatives that were passed or enacted in 2021.
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The extraordinary 7,200 km non-stop relay from Scotland to Egypt carrying a climate change message from young people to the decision-makers at COP 27. The impact of climate change on our planet will be felt most by our youth and future generations. Their collective voice needs to be heard. We aim to…
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In this eeBLUE Watershed Chronicles blog post, Lilly Meighan, education and outreach coordinator of Lynchburg Water Resources, shares how students experienced and learned about their direct connection to the environment and took steps to care for it.
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In the June issue of eeBLUE Watershed Chronicles, Emily Flaherty, School to Sea Director of Salem Sound Coastwatch, reflects on the power of "sneaky learning" and hands-on experiences in watershed STEM.
