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2008 Photo Blog and Contest
National Environmental Education Week is proud to announce the EE Week Photo Blog and Contest, designed to allow educators to upload their photos and stories of bringing environmental education into the classroom. Though blogs can be submitted year round, prizes such as a digital camera, camcorder, and photo printer will be awarded to the top three blogs that are submitted from April 23-May 23. Read more about the contest, view the current submissions, or submit your own photos!
EE Week 2008: Carbon Footprints
In celebration of its Carbon Footprints theme, EE Week, April 13-19, 2008 is proud to announce the Zerofootprint carbon calculator specifically designed for American students. Built by Zerofootprint, the EE Week Carbon Calculator encourages students, classrooms, and entire schools to measure and manage their own carbon footprints while developing creative ways to curb their carbon output and slow climate change. Students can compare their carbon footprints with students in other schools, boys vs. girls and more!
Access the EE Week Carbon Calculator
Read the 2008 Press Release
Students Ask...Experts Answer
Eco-Ambassadors selected through a national competition sponsored by The Weather Channel have some important questions on their minds about the environment. Experts at the World Wildlife Fund offer answers to the questions based on their work. See all three questions and answer videos.
Nature Journaling Blog for Educators
Nature Journaling Tip #12: Use Nature Journals to Inspire Writing
The following exercise will give you practice in using the field journal to enhance the writing process. The exercise employs clustering, a non-linear brain-storming process that allows greater access to your creativity during the prewriting stage, and eases the entire writing process.
Partner Spotlight
Earth Day Network seeks to grow and diversify the environmental movement worldwide, and to mobilize it as the most effective vehicle for promoting a healthy, sustainable planet. Their innovative education initiatives focus on creating a new generation of environmentally aware and democratically active citizens, as well as building healthy, green schools and communities across the nation.In honor of EE Week's Carbon Footprints theme, the Earth Day Network has developed a special series of high school lesson plans on the following climate-related topics: Biodiversity and Climate; Invasive Species and Climate; Food, Water and Climate; Equity and Climate; and Green Building and Climate.
New Book Release
Two leading environmental authors, Lynne Cherry and Gary Braasch, have come together to produce a new book for middle school-age children that explains climate science. How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate presents clear science and outstanding photos of the evidence gathered by leading scientists all over the world. View sample pages from the book and the corresponding lesson plan from the book's Teachers' Guide.
EE Week Column
NY High School for Environmental Studies Coordinates EE Week Energy Audit
One of the most rewarding elements of my work in environmental conservation is the opportunity to meet students who are motivated to green their school environments. I was fortunate enough to talk to several of these students during my visit to the New York High School for Environmental Studies (HSES) during National Environmental Education Week 2007.