By Cleary Vaughan-Lee   Have you ever considered your relationship to nature and how it might be influenced by the impacts of technology? This is a thought I explored recently with students at Redwood High School in Larkspur, California during their annual...

Teachers know that kids are more likely to get engaged with learning when the curriculum reflects their lives and experiences. But what do you do if you’re teaching ancient history to middle school students? It’s hard to imagine what could be less relevant to...

No Teacher Left Inside: Using the Environment as a Context for Interdisciplinary Learning   I grew up attending a week-long camp each summer. My parents would drop me off on Sunday afternoon and I would enter a room of gangly adolescents all waiting nervously to...

By. Heather Flanagan, Project Coordinator for Communications for the Billion Oyster Project Curriculum and Community Enterprise   “I picked the wrong day to wear white sneakers,” a student sighed, while holding a tagged oyster shell in one hand and a squirt...

By. Kristen Mueller, Director of Communications, Earth Force With a focus on engaging youth as environmental citizens, international nonprofit Earth Force is constantly looking for ways to encourage young people to improve the environment and their communities, now...

By. Cheryl Bauer-Armstrong, Director of Earth Partnership at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum   School site restorations provide a powerful context within which students can engage in the process of doing science that is relevant to their everyday...

By Alejandra Pallais, Senior Director, Marketing and Constituent Engagement, Student Conservation Association Who would have thought there was a connection between land restoration and success in school? This is precisely what research concerning the Student...

By. Cyndy Merse, GSNN Content Writer The humble tree confers many benefits to humans and the environment: it offers shade and shelter from the sun, helps cool urban centers, is a home and food source for wildlife, and reduces erosion and soil loss in runoff prone...

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