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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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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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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.
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Taiwan held the 2021 US-Taiwan Eco-Campus Partnership Program Award Ceremony in Taipei in December 2021.
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Taiwan celebrated the 10th anniversary of its Environmental Education Act on June 5, 2021!
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The Nature-Based Early Learning Conference will be back in person, July 27-30, 2022, in Cincinnati, OH. Mark your calendars- we hope to see you there!
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Gammy Moses has been connecting young students and their parents with accessible, open green spaces around New Haven (CT) for the last 16 years. Through references to his childhood in the island of Dominica, spending as much time outdoors as possible and following the musical steps of his father, we…
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Urban planner Mara Mintzer asked it best: What would happen if we asked children to design our cities? Introducing young people to civic engagement through real-world examples can set the foundation for future implementation of policies that elevate environmental education.
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Explore opportunities to advocate for early childhood education at the Nature-Based Early Learning Conference held July 26–30.
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On Wednesday, June 30, at 7:30PM ET, join a great group of young and emerging EE professionals like yourself for 30 minutes to connect and recharge.
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Subscribe to eeADVOCATE for quarterly reviews of environmental education's policy accomplishments, previews of opportunities that lie ahead, and tools for engaging in advocacy for the EE field.
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This month we are highlighting an essential part of nature-based learning: outdoor gear! Hear stories from providers around the country who’ve removed barriers to accessing quality outdoor gear, creating sustainable models for programs and families. May 20 at 12 pm ET.
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Using feedback from conference attendees, the Natural Start Alliance pulled together a list of early childhood EE conference highlights related to themes like equity and inclusion, safety, mental health, and STEAM. The lists include previously unavailable sessions drawn from the NAAEE Annual…
