Eco-Schools USA Virtual Classroom Resources
EcoSchools is the world’s largest comprehensive green schools program, with involvement from organizations all over the world. Collectively, those schools support millions of teachers and students a year. In the United States, EcoSchools is run by the National Wildlife Federation. Their resources offer multiple ways for students to learn more about wildlife and biodiversity, climate change, and healthy and resilient communities, allowing student-led teams to choose place-based actions that personally excite and inspire them. From Visualizing Climate Change through Art to Restoring Biodiversity Balance in the Schoolyard and Diverting Textile Waste to Days of Service and Create Your Own Actions, this library of dozens of action cards has something that speaks to every school community.
EcoSchools U.S. offers a certification program for elementary through secondary schools that nurtures environmental learning and climate action. This award-winning, curriculum-linked framework supports school communities as they assess, track, benchmark, and celebrate environmental excellence
Conservation education is the study of humans’ intelligent use of their natural environment through the development, management, preservation, and renewal of natural resources for material, cultural, and aesthetic needs to benefit present and future generations. Conservation education hopes to positively influence people’s attitudes, emotions, knowledge, and behaviors about wildlife and wild places. This is done through the efforts of skilled educators, who use a variety of techniques, methods, and assessments to connect and reconnect people with the natural world. View more resources in the Conservation Education PRO Picks collection >