Environmental Education Graduate Endorsement
The Environmental Education Graduate Endorsement is now being offered by the NKU College of Education.  This 12-creidt hour program is for P-12 teachers and is relevant to all subject areas.
Curriculum Contract (PDF 76 KB)
Teacher Final Projects, 2003
 

Programs and Workshops
These workshops were sponsored by the Northern Kentucky University Center for Environmental Education with funding support from the Center for Integrative Natural Sciences & Mathematics (CINSAM). http://www.cinsam.org.

Project Learning Tree 
The goal of the lessons in Project Learning Tree (PLT) are to develop students' awareness, appreciation, skills, and commitment to address environmental issues; to provide a framework for students to apply scientific processes and higher order thinking skills to resolve environmental problems; to help students acquire an appreciation and tolerance of diverse viewpoints on environmental issues and develop attitudes and actions based on analysis and evaluation of the available information; to encourage creativity, originality, and flexibility to resolve environmental problems and issues; and to inspire and empower students to become responsible, productive, and participatory members of society.
National Website: http://www.foodlandpeople.org
KY Website: http://www.kyagr.com/mkt_promo/education/kaec/programs/FLP/index.htm

Food, Land and People:
The goal of Food, Land and People (FLP)is to help people of all ages better understand the interrelationships among agriculture, the environment, and people of the world.  FLP's science - and social sciences - based curriculum, serves Pre-K to 12th grade students throughout the United States.  The program guide contains very detailed lesson plans that have been aligned with state and national standards in a number of subject areas.   Website: http://www.plt.org

Project Learning Tree: Elementary and Middle School teachers dance to the Water Cycle Boogie, as an extension of the PLT Lesson "Water Wonders"		Project Learning Tree: Teachers use a dichotomous key to identify trees as part of a PLT lesson.
PLT Elementary Workshop facilitators, from left to right, Reeda Hart and Dr. Anjana Arora.		PLT Middle and Secondary Workshop facilitators, from left to right, Julie Whitis, Cliff Hart, and Deborah Perkins.
Project Learning Tree: Middle and high school teachers do an exercise from the “Forest Ecology” module of lessons.		Food, Land and People: Teachersdo an activity called "Pest or Guest" as part of a series of lessons about pest management.
Food, Land and People:  Workshop facilitators, from left to right, Pat Brownfield, Cecilia Baker, and Lynne Poston.

Curriculum Resources Information:

KY Division of Forestry: http://www.webcom.com/duane/wood/kdf.html

Leopold Education Project: http://www.lep.org

National Energy Education Development (NEED Project): http://www.need.org

Northern Kentucky Environmental Education Alliance
http://www.nku.edu/~scienceed/professionaldev.htm

Project WET

• KY Project WET: http://keec.ky.gov/project_wet.htm
• Project WET Connections to Kentucky Core Content 4.1 by activity: http://keec.ky.gov/kycorecontent.htm
• Project WET National: http://www.projectwet.org

Project Wild
National Site: http://www.projectwild.org
KY Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources:  http://www.kdfwr.state.ky.us

Teaching and Website Resources:

Lesson Plans

Tree Jeopardy (PDF 21 KB)

NKU Science Education: http://www.nku.edu/~scienceed

Kentucky Association for Environmental Education: http://www.kaee.org

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation: http://www.nfwf.org

North American Association for Environmental Education: http://www.naaee.org

Tree Jeopardy (PDF 21 KB)