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  Workshop Resources for Schools and School Districts

Need an all day in-service or early release training for teachers? All the workshops below can be offered for your school building and for the school district.

  • The workshops focus on environmental topics introducing hands-on and interdisciplinary activities.
  • There is no expense for workshop materials, trainer's time and some of the workshop guidebooks.
  • Workshops can be tailored to interests of school based on available time.

Air to Earth, Grades 5 and 8
Minimum hours: 2
This resource kit created by NIKE, Inc. and Eco Educators provides ready-to-use lesson plans and supplemental hands-on materials to teach about the environment, conserving resources and sharing responsibility for sustainable communities. Students explore science, math, social studies, language, economics, visual arts and citizenship. The six lessons are based on NAAEE Project 2061's Benchmarks for science literacy and the National Science Education Standards. Free resource kit.

Food, Land & People, Grades PreK-12
FLP is a interdisciplinary, supplementary education program with 55 lessons to help educators and student to better understand the interrelationships among agriculture, the environmental and the people of the world.

Leopold Education Project, Grades 5-12
Minimum hours: 4
The Leopold Education Project (LEP) is an interdisciplinary, critical thinking, conservation and environmental education guidebook. LEP is designed to compliment the Sand County Almanac Essays, a famous literary work by Aldo Leopold, containing 22 activities based on essays from Part I, the "Almanac." The activities connect students to the environment and develop responsible environmental values; thus, improving their decisions that impact the earth.

Project WET (Water Education for Teachers), Grades K-12
Minimum hours: 6
Project WET is an international, interdisciplinary, water education program with over 90 indoor and outdoor activities covering the broad range of water issues. The activity guide correlates to the National Standards for Science Education.

Project WILD, Grades K-12
This is a interdisciplinary conservation and environmental education program emphasizing wildlife. Over 100 activities in the guidebook.

Windows On Waste (WOW), Grades 3-6
Minimum hours: 2
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) guidebook provides 36 activities organized in fourteen units on solid waste and environmental issues, which pertain to real world environmental issues that the student can participate in solving. Each activity includes background information, objectives, learner centered inquiry approaches, procedures, assessments, extensions and student worksheets. The activities have been designed to meet Ohio Proficiency Learning Outcomes for science, math, social studies and language arts. View a sample lesson. Free guidebook. See science learning outcomes.

Workshop on Wheels, Grades K-12
Hours vary based on field trips.
This is a workshop on the move, so teachers watch a landfill, material recovery facility, compost facility or paper factory in operation. Teachers will learn where garbage and recyclables go. A chartered bus will take teachers to field trip sites. Activities and videos are incorporated during travel to be used in classroom.

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