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Cultivating school gardens and feeding families in need across the Atlanta metro and San Francisco Bay area communities.
Project Learning Garden provides schools with strategies for building effective and long-lasting garden-based learning programs. Teachers are provided with hands-on training, curriculum aligned to national standards, lesson kits filled with supplies, a schoolyard garden, fully-equipped garden cooking cart, and strategies for summer garden maintenance.
Project Learning Tree (PLT) is an award-winning environmental education program designed for all educators working with students in Pre-K through 12th grade. Since its introduction in the early 1970’s, PLT has been recognized as a leading environmental education program. Through hands-on, interdisciplinary activities, PLT provides students with opportunities to investigate environmental issues and encourages them to make informed, responsible decisions.
Project WET is an international program whose mission is to bring water education to the world! We envision a world in which action-oriented education enables every child to understand and value water, ensuring a sustainable future. We strive to promote awareness, appreciation, knowledge, and stewardship of water resources by creating and distributing classroom-ready teaching materials and conducting workshops for educators.
Project WILD is an interdisciplinary conservation and environmental education program emphasizing terrestrial and aquatic wildlife resources. The goal of Project WILD is to assist learners of any age in developing awareness, knowledge, skills, and commitment resulting in informed decisions, responsible behavior, and constructive actions concerning wildlife and the environment.
Project WILD is available nationwide and provides professional development for formal and non-formal educators. From awareness to action, this hands-on approach to learning engages students in investigating the world around them, connecting them to conservation careers, and participating in solid STEM activities.
The Georgia Department of Education is dedicated to preparing students for 21st Century workplace careers by providing high quality educational opportunities in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics fields. In Georgia, STEM and STEAM education is an integrated curriculum that is driven by exploratory project-based learning and student-centered development of ideas and solutions.
The American Association of Chemistry Teachers provides professional development and teacher learning opportunities from the chemistry education community.
Earth Institute LIVE is a virtual platform dedicated to bringing the science of sustainability to you.
We offer up-to-date teacher training through biology workshops and development for teachers in genetics and biotechnology. With federal and private foundation funding, we offer these free workshops to high school and college educators, especially those in the areas of genetics, biology, genomics, and bioinformatics.
To help Georgia teachers during this time of remote learning, Georgia Virtual Learning will be conducting live webinars focused on using Georgia Virtual School course content. Each webinar will focus on a course within the shared resources area of our website. Georgia Virtual School teachers will be leading the webinar with opportunities for Q&A after the presentations. The webinar recordings will be archived for future viewing. Information about accessing the resources and the recordings will be available during/after the webinar.
NAGT sponsors a comprehensive webinar series that is sure to be your one-stop-shop for strengthening work in Earth education. The webinar series will address themes such as improving teaching and learning, addressing diversity, equity, and inclusion in Earth education, implementing the NGSS, strengthening your department, and engaging with communities and society. Webinars will feature novel and innovative work in Earth education research and pedagogy, new teaching materials, and classroom and professional experiences of people like you. The NAGT webinar series is free and we encourage you to invite your colleagues to attend.
The Teacher Institute for Evolutionary Science provides middle school and elementary teachers the tools they need to effectively teach evolution and answer its critics based on new Next Generation Science Standards.