Earth Partnership for Schools
High school and elementary students plant a rain garden on their schoolyard.
EPS NEWS
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RESTORE Leadership Institute Madison, July 13-29, 2009
RESTORE 2009 was the largest and most diverse Leadership Institute to date with 67 participants in teams representing natural resource agencies, organizations and schools from California, Michigan, Maryland, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico and Wisconsin. Read more »
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2009 Earth Partnership for Schools Institutes held in IL, IN, KS, MN, MO, NC and WI
12 Earth Partnership for Schools Institutes were held in 7 states in the summer of 2009. Read more »
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Building Community Stewardship Through Schoolyard Ecological Restoration: NAAEE 2009 Conference, Portland, Oregon, October 7 – 10, 2009
A pre-conference workshop on Wednesday October 7, 2009 visited beautiful schoolyards in Portland that engage students in learning about nature and themselves, explored time-tested, hands-on curricula and resources for restoring native ecosystems on school grounds and collaboratively defined the essential elements of excellent schoolyard habitats. Read more »
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RESTORE: West/Northwest Will Support Schoolyard Habitat Projects in Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Nevada and California.
Funded by the EPA Office of Environmental Education, RESTORE: West/Northwest will establish new partnerships to enhance the FWS Schoolyard Habitat program with teacher professional development and a K-12 interdisciplinary curriculum focusing on issues of biodiversity, ecological restoration, pollution prevention and ecological literacy. Read more »