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We learn through personal experiences. In turn our verve for whatever we learn is contagious. The author discovered photography as a means of expressing her love for the natural world. Up at 5:15 AM, she would go to Bard Lake and discover the moments of sunrise and the natural world in that time…
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We truly appreciate the collective exchange of ideas each of the presenters and keynote speakers facilitate and champion at the NAAEE Annual Research Symposium and Conference. In this post, we're amplifying sessions at NAAEE2022 that center Native voices, culture, and knowledge.
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Share ideas, collaborate, and advance, together. Join an eePRO Group Meeting at NAAEE2022 on Friday, October 14 from 1:00 PM–2:00 PM MST.
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NOAA’s Environmental Literacy Program is excited to announce that it is funding nine new projects that will use education to build the foundation for resilience to weather and climate hazards.
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National Latinx and Hispanic Heritage Month takes place every year from September 15 to October 15, as a time to recognize and celebrate the contributions, diverse cultures and histories of the Latinx community in the United States.
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Luis Camargo, the founder of Organizacion para la Educacion y Protection Ambiental, describes the pillars for a nature-based regenerative education in this blog post.
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Melanie Schikore writes about her Community Action Project (CAP) that uses action research methods to work towards community sustainability goals, particularly the transformation of grass lawns to sustainable yards.
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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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Meet Zaineb Akbarally, a 2021 Youth Innovation Challenge Winner whose organization WNPS Youth Wing proposed a Blue Carbon Toolkit.
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Specialists are reporting young children in daycare "acting out." But behaviors are reactions to feelings. What if we listened to what young children are communicating through behavior?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Changemaker grantee Mariam Kabamba tells the story of an environmental education and tree planting program that brought hope to a local community in Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Registration for the 2022 Nature-Based Early Learning Conference is open! Register to attend in person in Cincinnati, Ohio, or online.
