Environmental Education

• Environmental Education Grant (for Pre-K through 12 schools or programs with youth components such as 4-H, scouts, churches, etc.)
• The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is launching a new online video game aimed to encourage kids to go outside and learn about the environment.  Learn More about the FWS video game
• Students! Take the Earth Day Pledge
• Green Teacher Classroom Activities for Earth Day and Every Day 
• GOOD ACTION WEBSITES FOR YOUTH
• K-12 SUSTAINABILITY
• Green Savings Tips (pdf)
• Students! Take the Earth Day Pledge
• Updated list of DVD loaner library
• New Energy Web Portal Explains Topics in Plain Language

  Energy Explained , a new web portal launched today by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), celebrates Energy Awareness Month with the most comprehensive energy education resource available from the U.S. Government.

   

OKLAHOMA CHAPTER FUNDING FOR
Environmental Education PROJECTS

Submitted by Susie Shields, Environmental Education Chair

The Oklahoma Chapter provides funding support and some planning assistance for a variety of environmental education programs in the state.  Following is a list of projects we have supported over the past decade.

 

·         Purchase of environmental DVDs for loan to teachers and groups, as well as our own Sierra Club movie nights.

·         The Oklahoman Newspapers in Education (NIE) Earth Day Supplement 2008

·         Oklahoma Trash Poster Contest: http://www.okladot.state.ok.us/beauty/poster/index.htm

·         Oklahoma Sustainability Network annual conference & website development (http://www.oksustainability.org/)

·         EE Expo: Oklahoma Association for Environmental Education (www.okaee.org)

·         The EnvironMentor newsletter primarily for teachers, a partnership with OKAEE and OKEECC (The Oklahoma Environmental Education Coordinating Committee). This newsletter has now morphed into the OKAEE Newsletter, but back issues may be found online: www.okaee.org.

·         Tar Creek Conference, L.E.A.D. Agency based in Miami (http://www.leadagency.org/)

·         Oklahoma Consortium for Environmental Literacy’s Master Plan for Environmental Education in Oklahoma (OKCEL is now defunct, but the searchable database of EE resources in online here: http://www.oksustainability.org/resources/ )

·         Green Teacher Activity Books are often purchased for distribution at EE teacher events (www.greenteacher.com)

·         Oklahoma Food Cooperative (www.oklahomafood.coop)

·         Local Food Project: Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture (http://www.kerrcenter.com/)

·         Permaculture Workshop sponsorship: Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma (http://www.regionalfoodbank.org/)

·         Earth Day Celebration & Recyclathon sponsorship: C.A.S.T. (Cultural Awareness for Students & Teachers) www.castfortheworld.com

·         Oklahoma Envirothon sponsorship, natural resource competition for high school students (http://www.envirothonok.com/)

·         Oklahoma Water Resources Research Institute Water Conservation Essay Contest sponsorship (http://environ.okstate.edu/owrri/waterplan/essay.asp)

·         Eco-Motion sponsorship - mobile environmental education program featuring Edison the Bus (currently inactive - http://www.edisonthebus.org/)

·         Eco-Summit – Week-end camping retreat/training for high school environmental clubs: Co-sponsored with OKAEE & OK Co. Conservation District

·         Guthrie High School’s Statewide Environmental Art Contest (cash prizes)

·         Carrie Dickerson Foundation - funding for Carrie’s exhibit at conferences (http://www.carriedickersonfoundation.com/)

·         Environmental Impact Statement for I-40 Relocation (testing equipment for Jennifer Lynch, Jackson Middle School)

 

Support for campus groups (proposal must be submitted and approved):

·         ECO-OSU (http://orgs.okstate.edu/ecoosu/Default.htm)

·         OUr Earth  (http://www.ou.edu/student/ourearth/)

·         SOSU Green Club  (http://www.sosu.edu/green-club/)

·         OU Student Congress Green Week