Disney's Planet Challenge Expanding

Students are asked to identify an environmental issue in their local community and come up with a solution that they monitor and document from start to finish. Past projects have ranged from implementing campus wide recycling programs to protecting local habitats.

For more infomation visit disney.go.com/planetchallenge/index.html

(Posted September 15, 2009)

Green Your School

The Student Conservation Association's Green Your School Contest is a national competition to stimulate and/or identify conservation service projects designed by high school students that improve or restore or beautify or conserve their high school environment. To be eligible, projects must have been started after August 1st, 2008. The Contest submission phase begins on April 1, 2009, and will end at 11:59 pm ET October 9, 2009. Winners will be announced on or around November 15, 2009.

Prizes

There will be one Grand Prize of $5,000 and two runner-up prizes of $2,500 each. Prizes will be awarded directly to high schools and not to individuals.There will be one Grand Prize of $5,000 and two runner-up prizes of $2,500 each. Prizes will be awarded directly to high schools and not to individuals.

To learn more visit www.thesca.org/green-your-school

(Posted September 15, 2009)

The Forest History Society, a 501(c)3 nonprofit educational institution, has added Module 10, "The Significance of Private Forests in the U.S,” to the curriculum.   This module has just been updated and includes the history of private forests and the values these lands have to the United States. Students will also examine family forests in America, and take a closer look at the challenges facing private forestland owners.  It has lots of new activities, team teaching possibilities, and links to other resource sites.  http://foresthistory.org/Education/Newsletter/EdNews4.htm. 

 Watersheds: Connecting Weather to the Environment

This short course provides information and instructional materials on understanding watersheds as our environmental home and the relationship between the weather and the health and protection of the environment.  We can easily see the consequences of a major oil spill at sea that is driven ashore by winds and ocean currents, but what about the fertilizer that people put on their lawns and the de-icer they apply to their driveway, or changing the car’s oil in the backyard, or the pet waste in the yard or local park?  Combined with weather, all of these have an impact on both the local environment and the larger regional environment.

http://www.meted.ucar.edu/bmet_training.php 

Weather and the Built Environment

This short course provides broadcast meteorologists, educators, and the public with an overview of the evolution of our modern urban environment with a focus on impacts on the watershed, air quality, and climate. Each unit in the course includes information on ways to reduce our impact on our water and air with ideas ranging from simple changes in our commuting and housekeeping habits to changes in how we build houses and roads.  http://www.meted.ucar.edu/bmet_training.php

The information contained in this page is for informational use only and does not constitute an endorsement by the Arkansas Environmental Education Association.