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Environmental Education Grants Federal Fiscal Year 1999
Connecticut | Maine | Massachusetts | New Hampshire | Rhode Island | Vermont
Connecticut
CBIA Education Foundation
Grant Amount: $5000
350 Church Street
Hartford, Hartford County, CT 06103
Contact: Lauren Kaufman
Environmental Learning Games for High School Students is an education
reform initiative to educate both teachers and students about real-world
environmental problems and develop strategies to solve them. It
also exposes students to environmental careers. The purpose is to
increase the numbers of school districts exploring the environmental
cluster by developing real-world, industry-based problem-solving
games, that teachers can easily utilize in their curriculum.
SoundWaters, Inc.
Grant Amount: $5,000
69 Dyke Lane #13
Stamford, CT 06902
Contact: Lee Ann Beauchamp
Teacher Training Workshop - Discover Your Place In The Long Island
Sound Watershed - From The Sound To The Schoolyard is a unique multi-disciplinary
five day watershed ecology workshop for teachers at river sites
in the watershed, aboard the schooner SoundWaters and at other field
sites. The workshop offers a new approach to watershed education
by demonstrating how teachers can integrate hands-on teaching methods
as practiced by outdoor educators into traditional classroom curricula.
Maine
Aroostook Literacy Coalition
Grant Amount: $5,000
P.O. Box 190
Houlton, ME 04730
Contact: Ervin T. MacDonald
Bridging The Two Maine's - An Environmental Telecommunications Project
for The General Public in Aroostook County educates the general
public and key community leaders about environmental issues and
on-line networking in order to improve their access to key environmental
data. By providing this training, the project uses technology to
educate members of the adult community, including low income audiences,
in Aroostook County, the largest and northernmost county in the
state.
University of Maine -Water Research Institute
Grant Amount: $5000
5717 Corbett Hall
Orono, ME 04469-5717
Contact: Mary Ann McGarry
Testing The Waters: Building A Maine Watershed Alliance extends
the acclaim of the previous pilot Testing The Water (TTW) programs
by expanding the geographic base into the Kennebec River watershed,
located in central Maine. The TTW program now provides a hands-on,
minds-on, water quality monitoring and educational experience for
more than 800 schoolchildren and teachers in the Kennebec watershed.
Massachusetts
Alternatives for Community and Environment
Grant Amount: $10,000
2343 Washington Street
Roxbury, MA 02119
Contact: Warren Goldstein-Gelb
The Air We Share: From Classroom To Community In Roxbury, MA - The
Roxbury Environmental Empowerment Project (REEP) focuses on the
issues of poor indoor and outdoor air quality as a primary public
health concern among school-aged youth and adults in Roxbury. It
targets youth and non-formal leaders in public housing, neighborhood
associations, and small businesses.
EarthWorks Projects, Inc.
Grant Amount: $5,000
46 Chestnut Street, 3rd Floor
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Contact: Maurice Loiselle
Outdoor Classroom's Adopt-a-Tree and High School Mentors Program
increases the use of the Schoolyard Orchard Outdoor Classrooms for
hands-on environmental education by training 10 or more volunteers
who live in the communities surrounding the schools. The project
also trains 5 high school students classroom specialists for their
schools, and 3-5 teachers in the use of the orchards.
Island Alliance
Grant Amount: $25,000
408 Atlantic Avenue
Boston, MA 02210
Contact: Kathy Abbott
Environment-focused Interdisciplinary Middle School Curriculum Based
On Boston Harbor Islands. The project's middle school curriculum
development is based on the needs of students in Boston and other
minority neighborhoods in Massachusetts. It also delivers onsite
instruction and expeditionary learning materials to teachers. The
curriculum is based on the geological, historical, cultural, social,
economic, political, and marine and terrestrial ecology resources
of the Boston Harbor islands.
Lynn Public Schools - Environmental School
Grant Amount: Grant Amount: $4,995
14 Central Avenue
Lynn, MA 01901
Contact: Charles P. Wilkinson
A Teaching Tool For The Development of Critical-thinking and Problem-solving
Skills in Elementary and Secondary Pupils. Interdisciplinary real-world
training in ecological principles and environmental education to
teams of primary and secondary teachers at the Lynn Woods Reservation,
a unique 2,200 acre urban forest. The training consists of workshops
made up of field practicums elucidating the geologic, hydrologic,
floral and faunal aspects of the local ecosystems.
New England Aquarium Corporation Education Department
Grant Amount: $5,000
Central Wharf
Boston, MA 02110
William Spitzer, Ph.D.
A Community Environmental Career Development Project. Young adults
(aged 18-30) from Roxbury, Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, and Chelsea
are recruited by community-based organizations to participate in
an 8-part Environmental Career Workshop series. Professionals who
work in environmental careers participate as guest presenters, with
the workshops organized by Aquarium staff and hosted at a number
of comunities organizations in the Roxbury, Dorchester, and Jamaica
Plain areas.
Newton Public Schools
Grant Amount: $5,000
100 Walnut Street
Newton, MA 02460
Contact: George Willwerth
From Cheesecake Brook to Stellwagen Bank is an integrated thematic
approach to teaching students concern for their environment by demonstrating
the neglect that has happened literaly in their own back yard (Cheesecake
Brook). The brook flows through school property, and is a demonstration
of how neglect has affected the Charles River and virtually all
the way to Stellwagen Bank.
University of Massachusetts Lowell Research Foundation
Grant Amount: $19,159
600 Suffolk Street, 2nd Floor
South, Lowell, MA 01854
Contact: Dr. Linda Silka
Regional Economic and Social Development. Thirty Southeast Asian
young people, the River Ambassadors, previously trained in urban
environmental issues, create six 15-minute videotape programs designed
to consolidate their learning and receive greater visibility for
their environmental work. This work demonstrates a model of how
community-based approaches in areas that are home to immigrants
new to the U.S. can be successful.
New Hampshire
Antioch New England Graduate School
Grant Amount:$5,000
40 Avon Street
Keene, NH 03431
Contact: Bo Hoppin
Building Community Investment Through Environmental Education. This
project funds internship positions for graduate students to design
and implement community-based service learning projects at the Rachel
Marshall Outdoor Learning Laboratory. The projects help students
of Keene be responsible for long term management, care, and maintenance
of Keene's Ashuelot River Park.
Keene State College - Department of Geography
Grant Amount: $10,000
229 Main Street
Keene, NH 03435-2001
Contact: Al Rydant
The Wild World of Worms - A Vermicomposting Geographic Curriculum
Guide. This project introduces and establishes vermicomposting in
elementary school settings by creating a core curriculum for grades
1-6 by combining vermicomposting with the National Geography Standards.
Maintaining a worm bin provides hands-on experience with ecosystem
management, integrating disciplines that bring together the physical
and human dimensions of the world.
Rhode Island
Brown University Swearer Center for Public Service
Grant Amount: $24,492
Swearer Center for Public Service
Box 1974
Providence, RI 02912
Contact: Kris Hermanns
The Environmental Health Action Project works with families in a
coordinated effort to improve the health and quality of life of
asthmatics. Their work supplements existing clinic-based services
with home visits and educational outreaches tailored to the language,
literacy, and healthneeds of individual families. Workers identify
and eliminate environmental triggers found in the home.
Narragansett Indian Tribe
Grant Amount: $4,046
Natural Resource Department
P.O. Box 268
Charlestown, RI 02813
Contact: Dinalyn Spears Audette
The Active Watershed Management Project. The Tribe developed a plan
to protect the environment and health of its members. It hosts a
workshop which is a coordinated effort among the Tribe, Southern
Rhode Island Conservation District, and the University of Rhode
Island. In addition there are 8 classroom units, 3 field trips,
and a culminating event. The project also includes distribution
of a newsletter highlighting environmental hazards.
University of Rhode Island Cooperative Extension Education Center
Grant Amount: $4,938
Cooperative Extension Education Center
East Alumni Avenue
Kingston, RI, Washington County, RI 02881-0804
Contact: June Kinigstein
What's A Wetland? Classes of children in 3rd to 6th grades participate
in the Guiding Education in Mathematics and Science Network (GEMSNET)
program. Students are from a wide range of socio-economic and ethnic
backgrounds. Children and teachers explore the wetlands with a trained
University of Rhode Island student or URI Master Gardener as the
facilitator.
Woonsocket High School Education Department
Grant Amount: $5000
Education Department
108 High Street
Woonsocket, RI 02895
Contact: Ms. Jazik
The Cass Park Conservation Coalition Project establishes a collaborative
effort involving students, teachers, state, municipal and community
groups in evaluating, monitoring, and restoring Cass Park. A group
of students who have been identified as at risk of dropping out
of school are implementing the program. The ultimate goal is to
reduce storm water pollution of Cass Pond, improve the landscape
of Cass Park, and develop the area into an ecoclassroom.
Vermont
Shelburne Farms
Grant Amount: $14,550
1611 Harbor Road
Shelburne, VT 05482
Contact: Judy Elson
People and The Northern Forest: A Sustainable Relationship is a
project which designs and delivers a series of workshops to 4th
- 8th grade teachers, providing them with the skills
and knowledge to develop curriculum that inspires students to become
active forest stewards. The program provides ongoing professional
support to participating teachers, assisting with the integration
of Northern Forest issues into their curriculum while meeting the
objectives outlined in the Vermont Framework of Standards and Learning
Opportunities. Workshops accomodate 120 educators, thus reaching
3,000 students annually.
State of Vermont - Department of Health
Grant Amount: $3,820
108 Cherry Street
Burlington, VT 05402
Contact: Karen Garbarino
The Indoor Air Quality Education in Schools project uses existing
Department of Health staff to train a representative teaching professional
from the pilot supervisory union on basic indoor air quality and
ventilation issues. With this training, initial concerns are addressed
by the school at the local level and an indoor air quality management
plan is established. The indoor air quality coordinator is also
responsible for incorporating what was learned into the supervisory
union's health education curriculum.
Winooski Valley Park District
Grant Amount: $4,000
Ethan Allen Homestead Burlington, VT 05401
Contact: Jennifer Ely
State of the Winooski Basin Environmental Education Program and
Youth Conference is a project which elevates awareness of the many
values of wetlands, including their role in phosphorus trapping.
It complements and builds upon existing educational resources, teaching
students a variety of hands-on skills that can be applied to real-life,
such as: how land use affects environmental quality, mapping, quantitative
water monitoring, professional letter writing, public speaking,
and how the political process works.