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Environmental Education Grant Profiles for the Year 2008
Delaware Center for Horticulture, Inc. - $17,580
Mr. Joseph V. Matassino, 1810 North Dupont Street, Wilmington, DE 19806
Youth Environmental Stewardship Program
This project will provide technical support for community gardeners throughout the city; beautify Delaware's roadsides with native vegetation; maintain many of Wilmington's gateways, corridors, and streetscapes; lead regional conservation stewardship projects to enhance the urban forest in public green spaces; and provide educational programs for children, teens, and adults. The students will participate in a tree planting, perennial and bulb plantings, a park clean-up, hands-on learning activities, and engage in programming with professionals in the environmental field. Urban residents, particularly those from low to moderate income neighborhoods are often exposed disproportionately to negative environmental conditions that are more serious than litter. The problem is worsened because there are only a few leaders in the urban neighborhoods who have the background to speak up about environmental concerns. Specifically, this project will provide community stewardship by building a consensus regarding neighborhood revitalization efforts and parks' enhancement activities. The goal is to encourage continued involvement and volunteerism by youth and cultivate the community's future environmental leaders.
National Council for Science and the Environment - $24,625
Susan Carlson, 1101 17th Street NW, Suite 250, Washington, DC 20036
EnvironMentors DC Chapter: College and Careers Access Pathway
Students will engage in workshops designed to increase their understanding on the many, varied environmental careers available at both professional and technical levels, the wide variety of environmental college degree programs and the desire among these programs to increase student diversity inclusion, and the array of scholarships, fellowships, and grants available for underrepresented students interested in pursuing environmental science degree programs. Specifically, this project will provide the students with Career Development priorities. The goal of the program is to interest and prepare DC underrepresented high school students for college degree programs and careers in science and environmental fields. Among EnvironMentors' guiding precepts is the belief that full inclusion in the environmental workforce of all cultural and socio-economic groups, particularly those most heavily impacted by environmental, health, and justice issues, is needed to achieve environmental sustainability at local, regional, and national levels.
National Aquarium in Baltimore - $21,934
Mr. Carl Hackerman, 501 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202
Community-Based Restoration of Atlantic White Cedar Habitat
Through live exhibitory, education programs, and community-based habitat restoration, the Baltimore Aquarium seeks to instill in both adults and children an appreciation for and an awareness of the Earth's marine ecosystems. The National Aquarium in Baltimore proposes to build partnerships with three local Worcester County MD schools to provide a unique, hands-on experience for students to restore critical Atlantic white cedar (AWC) habitat in Bishopville, MD. This project will restore and enhance the ecosystem in the upper St. Martins River, currently regarded as the most degraded river in the Coastal Bays. The proposed project will create a compelling pathway for scientific investigation and stewardship over the year. The project will provide at least six teachers and 150 students with hands-on education experiences in the Coastal Bays using the Schoolyard Spartina model that will provide practical investigative experience using horticultural experiments to grow AWC for the community-based project. Provide a teacher training workshop introducing at least six teachers to the project and the role students and teachers will play. At three schools, monitor, maintain and then plant 900 AWC at the Bishopville restoration site. Implement an environmental education program that meets the MD and National Science Content Standards. Conduct three safe and effective restoration field events.
PA Resources Council - $19,360
David Mazza, 64 South 14th Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15203
Health and the Environment: The Human Connection
This project will utilize existing curriculum materials developed by PA Resources Council Inc and University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute-Center for Environmental Oncology to increase public awareness and knowledge about environmental causes of cancer, minimize the public's exposure to environmental pollutants and contribute to the prevention of cancer, especially among children, by educating middle and high-school students, their parents/guardians, and teachers and pre-service teachers. Specifically, this curriculum seeks to enhance critical thinking and decision making skills as a means to effectively analyze information and make informed decisions regarding the purchase and use of products, behavioral changes as a means to avoid and/or reduce pollution exposure. This project will encourage participants of all ages to accept responsibility for reducing and eliminating toxins in the environment by decreasing their consumption of products containing these substances. Participants will acquire skills that will assist them in making informed decisions concerning conscious consumerism (i.e., label reading and alternatives to toxin-containing products).
Northampton County Area Community College - $25,915
Dr. John Leiser, 3835 Green Pond Road, Bethlehem, PA 18020
Farming for the Future: A Model for Community Supported Agriculture on Municipal Land
Northampton Community College (NCC) students on the Monroe Campus will study the operation of the Josie Porter Farm to see its function as an area of sustainable biodynamic agriculture that provides food within the community it serves. By working the farm and meeting with members of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), participants will be able to recognize the goals of the farm to promote environmental stewardship. Students will then work with faculty and the Cherry Valley Community Supported Agriculture (CVCSA) to design a model for demonstrating community supported agriculture enterprises to municipalities working to secure open space and to teach public workshops on the farm around the topics of stewardship, sustainable agriculture. The proposed project is intended to promote sustainable interactions between the population of Monroe County and the wild resources found in the region. Project goals are threefold: 1) to teach students critical thinking about environmental issues such that they analyze information and design realistic environmental solutions to problems, while encouraging the students to adopt sustainable options in their own lives; 2) to educate the local community about the importance of balancing population growth with the need for renewable food resources, and 3) to educate municipal leaders about community supported agriculture by developing a model for incorporating CSA land into open space initiatives.
DaVinci Discovery Center of Science and Technology - $25,825
Mr. Bill McGlinn, 3145 Hamilton Boulevard Bypass, Allentown, PA 18103
Community of Modelers teacher and citizen computer climate modeling training and engagement
The DaVinci Science Center using the Community of Modelers will engage teachers, students, and other community members in using desktop-computer-based climate-modeling software - Educators Global Climate Model (EdGCM). The DaVinci Science Center will provide in-depth training workshops, and online and in-person follow-up and troubleshooting, to enable educators and citizens to use and understand the same global climate modeling software used by environmental scientists. The DaVinci Center will also facilitate an online forum where workshop graduates will exchange data and analyses derived from their climate models. Participants will become more aware of the consequences of greenhouse gas emissions and better able to use scientific models to make decisions about local, regional, and national climate policy.
Boxerwood Education Association - $20,256
Ms. Hunter Mohring, 963 Ross Rd., Lexington, VA 24450
Project Nurturing Environmental Stewardship Together (NEST)
The goal of the Project Nurturing Environmental Stewardship Together (NEST) is to enhance the integration of environmental education into the curricula and institutional practices of four elementary schools in Rockbridge County. Project NEST will enhance teaching skills by: a) modeling to teachers effective outdoor teaching/learning strategies at Boxerwood Nature Center and in schoolyards; b) introduce high-quality environmental curricula for adaptation to each teacher's specific school setting; c) offer teacher workshops in conjunction with the Washington and Lee University (W&L) teacher Education Program, with special focus on inquiry and project-based learning; and d) fund modest classroom-initiated environmental stewardship projects that introduce service-learning methodologies while also improving the instructional potential of the schoolyard. Specifically, this project will address Education Reform by helping four schools meet expectations set forth in the Business Plan for Environmental Education in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The plan includes goals of creating "outdoor classrooms at every school to encourage authentic, real-world learning and develop sustained teacher training using an integrated environment-based learning approach.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - $25,217
Ms. Sharron McElroy, 1880 Pratt Drive, suite 2006, Blacksburg, VA 24060
ESCAPE: Environmental Stewardship and Career Awareness Program for Education
This project will create a collaborative relationship between high school student scientists, their teachers, and researchers from Virginia Tech in the collection, interpretation, and sharing of environmental data at Mason Neck National Wildlife Refuge. Students will collect soils on tree-rings, soils, and forest composition and enter this information into an online, digital database. Students will participate in web-based analysis of their data and scenario-based learning activities directed towards increasing their critical thinking abilities, their sense of environmental stewardship, and their interest in careers in environmental science.
Upper Guyandotte Watershed Association, Inc. - $7,103
Val Page, PO Box 196, 300 Front Street, Mullens, WV 25882
Community Stewardship Initiative
The Community Stewardship Initiative will allow the Upper Guyandotte Watershed Association (UGWA) the ability to reach further into the watershed through small community forums, public meetings, the media, stream clean ups, and fostering meaningful partnerships. While cultivating an enthusiasm for watershed stewardship, UGWA will be teaching the community about the health risks surrounding untreated waste water, and how to avoid hazardous contact. The goal of the wastewater project is to increase access to adequate wastewater treatment facilities in local communities and reduce human health risks due to discharges of untreated household wastewater.
