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2006
$15,729 Improving Kids Environment (Indianapolis)
"Smart Schools Don't Idle" will educate students, teachers, staff, administrators and parents at Indianapolis elementary schools about environmental and health effects of unnecessary vehicle idling. The goal of the project is to provide a prototype that will educate the entire marion County elementary school community on the health effects of motor vehicle idling and dispel myths about motor vehicle idling. As a result, students, parents, school administrators and teachers will have the necessary tools to make informed decisions about how their personal behavior affects air quality. Adapting existing materials as needed, the project will provide teachers with classroom activities and information that will help children understand how much pollution is emitted by idling vehicles and how those emissions affect their health and the environment.
2005
$8,840 to Springs Valley Community Schools ( 4989 S. Larry Bird Blvd., French Lick) Springs Valley Jr.-Sr. High School will conduct water quality studies of Lost River, both upstream and downstream of French Lick and West Baden. Students will hear lectures and participate in actual field experiences by measuring for dissolved oxygen, fecal coliform, pH, nitrate, turbidity, total solids and chlorine at various sites. After monitoring has been completed, the students intend to share the results with the community.
$9,990 to Jack and Shirley Lubeznik Center for the Arts (101 Avenue of the Arts, La Porte) For six weeks, students will study the ecology of the Great Lakes. An environmental instructor and an art instructor will work together to actively engage students in weekly environmental curriculum lessons. Students will develop their own eco-artwork and reflection statements as they investigate the ways personal and community decisions affect the lakeshore. Student work will be displayed for the public at a community event and will be featured on the Web sites of the Lubeznik Center and coalition member agencies.
2004
$5,000 to Campfire Heartland Council (1410 S. Post Road, Indianapolis), to bring ecology concepts through the WorldWise summer program to 800 youth enrolled in summer camp. The program consists of five units that range from energy cycles in nature to ecosystem concepts. In addition to learning about ecology, young people will address community issues by designing and implementing service projects that improve or enhance their own natural environment.
$5,000 to Indiana Dunes Environmental Learning Center (700 Howe Road, Porter), will increase participation of high school students from the Chicago and Northwest Indiana areas in stewardship activities and long range authentic projects that will benefit their communities. DuneSCOPES (Students Concentrating On Positive Environmental Science) has three goals: 1) engage students in monitoring ecological change 2) link students together with events and the World Wide Web to learn about each other and their neighboring communities and 3) share information and experiences regarding environmental careers with high school students making choices about their future.
$4,570 to Allen County Soil and Water Conservation District (3718 New Vision Drive, Fort Wayne), to sponsor Project WET (Water Education for Teachers) training in Allen County. Project WET is an international water science and education program for educators and students in grades K-12. Project WET workshops train educators to better teach water resources in their classrooms and make hands-on activities available.
$14,000 to Marion County Health Department (3838 N. Rural St., Indianapolis), this project expands upon current Head Start asthma screening and education efforts, with a focus on the high risk, pediatric population. After an initial screening takes place, Head Start families will be visited by an asthma educator who will devise a plan of care. Home visits will be conducted by an asthma educator, indoor air specialist and public health nurse. Results of the screenings and home visits will be less emergency room visits, more participation in education classes and acquiring knowledge to address in-home asthma triggers.
2003
$5,000 to Drifting Dunes Girl Scout Council (8699 Broadway, Merrillville) to implement "This Land Is Your Land", an environmental education and environmental justice training program addressing community issues in Northwest Indiana. The project teaches the history of industrial pollution in the region, Lake Michigan's role in the area's development and lake quality issues, wetlands protection, solid waste management and what citizens can do to ensure sustainable development.
$4,990 to Indiana Department of Environmental Management (P.O. Box 6015, Indianapolis). Since July 2002, more than 35,000 preschool and elementary students around Indiana have been exposed to environmental education lending kits. Currently, 91 kits are being circulated by Indiana University-Purdue University's Teacher Resource Center. Indiana Department of Environmental Management is adding materials to the kits on topics such as pesticides and indoor air quality. Environmental management staff are also promoting the kits at education conferences around the state.
$25,000 to Purdue University (610 Purdue Hall, West Lafayette) for raising awareness of pest control concepts to child care providers around the state. A multimedia approach will be used to deliver educational messages and materials through workshops, presentations, brochures, Web sites and a technical support hotline. Purdue is sharing the project model with other EPA Region 5 states. Other partners in the project are developing plans to integrate pest control concepts into existing child care provider training. The partners are also encouraging the child care industry to adopt integrated pest management principles and are raising awareness of pest control issues with the general public.
$5,000 to St. Joseph County (227 W. Nelson, South Bend) to educate about 1,000 St. Joseph County residents installing new or replacement water wells on the importance of water system management. Residents will be informed about their legal obligations, ground-water issues, water pollution, water quality testing and how to form a water system plan.
2002
$5,000 to Calumet College of St. Joseph (Whiting)
A new course entitled "Urban Environmental Issues in Northwest Indiana"
will enhance the existing urban studies program. The goal is to encourage
nontraditional, minority students to pursue careers in urban environmental
management. The course will encourage students to make informed decisions
and take responsible action on environmental issues by developing critical
thinking and problem-solving skills
$4,775 to Friends of the Indiana Dunes
Friends of the Indiana Dunes, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and Indiana
Dunes Environmental Learning Center are partnering to sponsor, organize
and expand the annual Junior Rangers Summer Biodiversity Camp. During
the camp, youth ages 9-13 will visit a variety of park ecosystems, as
well as restore a prairie, collect seeds, remove invasive species, monitor
water and explore partnerships with industry.
$4,995 to Rensselaer Central Middle School
"Everyday Science" will be a multi-disciplinary program for
more than 40 teachers (K-12). The goal is to broaden the education of
elementary school children to include environmental studies. Through an
in-service training, teachers will identify goals and objectives that
will lead to student-implemented stewardship projects.
2001
Huntington Co. Community Schools-Riverview Middle School-$4,580
2465 Waterworks Road
Huntington, IN 46750
Juli Werth
Soils Learning Center
Approximately 200 sixth-grade students at Riverview Middle School will start the 2001-02 school year learning about soils in order to help create a soils learning center lab. The lab will be created to accomplish the following goals: 1) have students see the soils as a living system 2) educate the students about soil forming processes, including factors and components and 3) demonstrate the role of soil in the hydrologic cycle.
Johnson County Solid Waste District-$4,960
755 E. Hamilton Ave.
Franklin, IN 46131
Meggan Walker
District Mascot
Johnson County Solid Waste District will use a robotic dog as a district mascot and teaching tool for an environmental education program focused on solid waste management, particularly waste reduction. Primarily the dog will be used with teachers and students in Johnson County. Approximately 75 presentations will be given throughout the county. In addition, the dog plans to visit the Hoosier Association of Science Teachers' annual conference and a meeting of the Indiana Environmental Education Association, as well as be part of an interactive workshop at the Indiana Recycling Coalition's conference.
Marian College-$23,049
3200 Cold Spring Road
Indianapolis, IN 46222
Ron Weis
What is an Environmental Scientist?
Approximately 125 eighth graders and 60 ninth graders will address critical questions on the Marian College campus about the ecological importance of wetlands with a view of how career environmentalists operate. First, teachers will take their students to a workshop on wetlands. Students will get hands-on experience on the methods and procedures environmental scientists use in wetland evaluations. Marian College faculty and Environmental Science majors will serve as facilitators.
2000
Indiana Dunes Environmental Learning Center - $10,793
P.O. Box 871
Chesterton, IN 46304
Matthew Miller
Energy Matters: A Middle School EE Program
Along with the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and NISource, Inc., the
Indiana Dunes Environmental Learning Center offers a program for 90 6th
- 8th graders and their teachers from three local middle schools called,
"Energy Matters: Energy Efficiency and Renewable and Alternative
Technologies." This public/private partnership combines educational
expertise and residential facility resources with technological and informational
resources to teach students how energy matters to them personally. After
teacher preparation and student field trips, students conduct an energy
audit of their school and prepare recommendations for implementing energy
efficient technologies.
1999
Indiana Department of Environmental Management - $6,828
100 N. Senate Ave., P.O. Box 6015
Indianapolis, IN 46206-6015
Mark Amick
Project LEAP Educator Workshops
Throughout the 1999-00 school year, IDEM conducts six workshops to educate
teachers about the Agency’s Learning and Environmental Awareness
Partnership (Project LEAP.) The Project provides free environmental education
materials to Indiana students and educators with the goal of increasing
environmental awareness and stewardship. Workshop participants receive
classroom materials, hands-on field investigation activities, and ideas
for environmental indicator projects.
1998
City of Gary $5,000
Office of the Mayor
Gary, Indiana 46402-1236
Dorreen Carey
Community-Based Environmental Education
The City of Gary, in partnership with the Lake County Solid Waste
Management District, will develop and implement a community-based environmental
education program. The organizations will work with the students and teachers
of West Side High School to provide training and resources for the implementation
of a sustainable solid waste and recycling program. Environmental professionals
will train 10 teachers and 20 students to use interactive environmental
education tools. Students will then coordinate a minimum of 20 educational
sessions for community members, community leaders, and students of all
ages. The program will reach a target audience of 500 people in the Gary
community.
Grand Calumet Task Force $5,000
2400 New York Ave.
Whiting, IN 46394
Bowden Quinn
Gary Kids for the Environment
The Grand Calumet Task Force will organize and develop an environmental
club for students in the Gary, Indiana school district. Students will
participate in after-school activities in which they will learn about
the environmental issues that impact their community. The club activities
will serve to enhance environmental education lessons learned in the classroom.
Students will also have the opportunity to visit outdoor sites in which
they will participate in hands-on, interactive activities. Science teachers
from the Gary school district will serve as technical advisors to the
group and encourage scientific investigation. The Grand Calumet Task Force
will target environmental justice communities in the Gary area in which
the students are typically under-served.
1997
Vigo County School Corporation, $3,990
961 Lafayette Ave.
Terre Haute, IN 47804
Dr. C. Jean Church, Curriculum Coordinator
Substitute Teacher Environmental Project
Through a program at Utah State University, Vigo County will train a district
water education in-service facilitator. That person will then train 20
substitute teachers in the Vigo County school system to be water education
specialists so that they can teach environmental lesson plans when they
are substituting throughout the district. The training workshop will focus
on learning to use the Comprehensive Water Education Book, a text designed
to accomplish the objectives set forth by the National Science Council.
In the classroom, students will be exposed to issues of water quality,
wise water usage, and nonpoint-source pollution. These issues will be
explored through scientifically sound, hands-on, inquiry based learning
activities. More than 8,000 students will be reached during the school
year.
1996
Clarksville Riverfront Foundation: $5,000
P.O. Box 741
Jeffersonville, Indiana 47131-0741
Ms. Dani Cummins, Director of Development
Interdisciplinary Environmental Summer Institute
Clarksville Riverfront Foundation will conduct a five-week interdisciplinary
environmental education program at the Falls of Ohio Interpretive Center
State Park, and National Wildlife Conservation area. The Program will
involve fifteen teachers and 150 students from school districts in Indiana
and Kentucky. Teachers will participate in the two-day workshops and then
lead a week-long experience for students using curriculum materials Clarksville
developed under a previous EPA grant.
Heritage Hills Middle School: $4,500
North Spencer County School Corporation
P.O. Box 416
Lincoln City, Indiana 47552
Michael Schriefer
Thematic Instruction Environmental Workshops
Heritage Hills Middle School will train its teachers about the delivery
of thematic instruction related to environmental issues, and engage students
in research and hands-on activities. Parents and community members will
join students in the design of an outdoor teaching lab to be developed
on the forest area of the school campus.
1995
Sierra Club: $24,300
960 E. Washington St., Ste. 200B
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Patricia Werner
Sierra Club will educate 240 K-8 teachers statewide and 60 teacher trainers
on the importance of wetlands using the Integrated Environmental Wetlands
Curriculum. The project will be carried out in partnership with the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, the Indianapolis Zoo and the Indiana Department
of Education. An additional outcome of the project will be to build a
wetlands network throughout Indiana.
Geography Educators Network of Indiana $5,000
Department of Geography
Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis
425 University Blvd.
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5140
Rick Bein
Funds will partially support a three-week commuter institute for K-12
Indiana teachers entitled, Stimulating Environmental Education in Indiana:
A Geographical Assessment of Critical Environmental Issues in the Evansville
Region. The institute will offer presentations and field trips on topics
such as the symbiotic nature of life, climatic changes, land-based degradation,
conservation, and photo-chemical pollution.
Grand Cal Task Force: $5,000
2400 New York Avenue, Suite 303
Whiting, IN 46394
Dorreen Carey
Grand Cal Task Force will offer seminars to churches, neighborhood and
community groups and civic organizations on how to promote pollution prevention,
sustainable community development and environmental improvement in Northwest
Indiana. Seminars will reach 1,500 community members using a slide show
and educational presentation developed under a 1993 EPA environmental
education grant. Northwest Indiana has been designated an "area of
concern" in the Great Lakes Basin and is one of the geographic areas
EPA is targeting to secure measurable environmental improvement.
1994
Indiana Recycling Coalition: $16,000
c/o Monroe County Solid Waste Management District
1040 W. 17th Street
Bloomington, IN 47404
Jane St. John
To establish the "Environmental Education Master Teacher Network"
and sponsor environmental education workshops for master teachers in sixteen
counties of southern Indiana. Master teachers will in turn educate other
teachers so that the program could potentially reach 24,000 K-12 students.
The workshops will revolve around an interdisciplinary environmental curriculum
developed by the Heritage Education Foundation of Indianapolis called,
"Partners with the Earth."
Clarksville Riverfront Foundation: $5,000
430 Marriott Drive
Clarksville, Indiana 47130
Kenny Karem
To develop a hands-on ecosystem education program for the nearby Falls
Interpretive Center. The center will serve more than 800,000 people in
southern Indiana and northern Kentucky. The project will enable the Falls
Interpretive Center, which will be established in 1994, to offer teacher
education workshops and student programs that focus on the diverse habitat
found on its 1,400-acre wilderness area.
1993
Grand Cal Task Force: $5,000
2400 New York Ave.
Whiting, IN 46394
Dorreen Carey
To broaden an educational program aimed at educating students in at least
30 middle schools and high schools in Gary, East Chicago and Hammond,
Indiana. Grand Cal Task Force will travel to schools with a slide presentation
and teach the predominately minority student population about local environmental
problems in that Great Lakes Area of Concern.
Geography Educator's Network of Indiana: $5,000
IUPUI Department of Geology
425 University Blvd.
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5140
Frederick Bein
To sponsor a three-week environmental institute entitled "Stimulating
Environmental Education in Indiana: A Geographical Assessment of Critical
Environmental Issues." An outcome of the institute will be more than
50 classroom-ready lesson plans with a geographical focus for the teachers
to use in the upcoming year.
Indiana University $5,000
School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation
P.O. Box 1847
Bloomington, IN 47402
David Borneman
To develop a comprehensive, integrated waste education project at its
Bradford Woods Outdoor Center. The program will teach 6,000 elementary
students, 600 physically disabled persons and 15,000 people in the community
about responsible waste management.
1992
Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM): $6,807
Indianapolis, IN
To transform a 21-foot recreational vehicle that it owns to a self-contained
interactive learning center called an Enviromobile. The project will enhance
an ongoing IDEM-EPA initiative to focus efforts on protecting public health
and the environment in Northwest Indiana. The Enviromobile will be used
to increase public environmental awareness and provide sound teaching
for children in kindergarten through 6th grade.