Resources

Environmental & Land Use Law curriculum

ENVIRONMENTAL & LAND USE LAW: ENGAGING STUDENTS IN THEIR COMMUNITY A curriculum for high school teachers and attorneys. This innovative curriculum was published in 2004 by the Washington State Bar Association. It provides lesson plans, handouts, and resources for environmental and land use law attorneys to use when they visit high school classrooms. The curriculum was developed by Kristen Bergsman of Laughing Crow Curriculum LLC and Martin Fortin, Jr. of Cispus Learning Center to support the National Law Day program.

A Path to Place: Creative Nature Journaling Workshops

Open to a blank page in your journal, pull out a pen, and welcome a world of possibilities. With a journal in hand, nature emerges all around you. Through engaging, powerful techniques, your journal will become a path to discovering your connection to place. Through field drawing, mapping, writing and reflection, discover this powerful educational tool. Nature journaling workshops are fun and inspiring for all ages. Journaling provides natural connections to the study of science, art, math, writing and history. We will design a customized workshop for your group.

Kamana Naturalist Home Study Program

The Kamana Naturalist Training Program is an experiential four-level home study course through which you gain a comprehensive naturalist training background. You learn wildlife tracking, bird language, survival and native living skills, traditional herbalism, naturalist mentoring and more. It is the ultimate blueprint for your time spent in the field and in conducting nature-related research. You become a confident naturalist, melding modern field ecology with the skills of a native scout. It was written by naturalist and tracker Jon Young, who uniquely designed it to model the process in which renown naturalist Tom Brown, Jr. mentored him as a boy. Kamana is completed "at your own pace and at your own place." It may take one to four years total to complete all four levels of the program. Kamana One: Exploring Natural Mystery embarks you on the Kamana journey and it only takes a few weeks to complete. You move through two weeks of awareness exercises and six areas of ecological study using a field guide and audio series narrated by Jon Young. It will help you see if the entire Kamana program is for you, as well as beginning to see the world through "native eyes."

NWEI Discussion Courses

Join thousands of other North Americans who are choosing to gather in the context of small group dialogue to address ecological issues in a supportive and inspiring context. NWEI offers seven study guides for small groups on living more simply, sustainable lifestyle, raising healthy children, changing the course of global warming and more.

Environmental Education

The Catholic Youth Organization provides a residential outdoor environmental education experience for elementary students through the use of hands-on, exploratory, investigative, and interdisciplinary teaching methods at Camp Hamilton, a 570 acre site in Monroe, WA.

Expedition Voyages Family and Youth Camps

You’ll sail the beautiful San Juan Islands of Washington State, following in the wake of maritime explorers George Vancouver, Robert Gray, and Charles Wilkes. On an Expedition Voyage, you’ll learn to set sail, stand watch, and take the helm of a replica 18th-century tall ship. At each remote stop, you’ll explore the island with trained naturalists. In the evening, you’ll discuss the expedition's findings and develop a plan for the next day. There’ll be time for a day hike and a brisk swim.

Project WILD

The goal of Project WILD is to assist students of any age in developing awareness, knowledge, skills, and committment to result in informed decisions, responsible behavior, and constructive actions concerning wildlife and the environment.

Middle School Service Learning Program

Middle school is the ideal time to turn student knowledge into positive restoration action. NSEA offers service-learning experiences for middle school students throughout Whatcom County, guiding students through a stewardship experience that empowers them to make a positive impact on their environment and the health of their entire community!

Toxic Free Tips

Toll-free phone line, website, and e-mail to answer questions about hazardous household products and other environmental issues

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Restoration Ecology for Young Stewards

Inquiry-based science curriculum (10+ lesson) for grades 5-8, where students learn about watershed ecology, Pacific salmon and native plants, and proceed to design their a streamside restoration (tree-planting) or greenhouse plant-growing project with an experimental component that tackles real-world challenges faced by habitat restoration professionals. Deeply aligned with WA science EALRs.

Water Resources Education Center

The Water Center offers field trips options for all ages. Teacher workshops are also offered throughout the year. The Water Center's Water Monitoring Network is available for Clark County teachers who would like to do water quality monitoring testing and macro invertebrates sampling. A variety of different service learning opportunities throughout the year from helping at events to removing invasive species and beach clean ups.

Youth Adventure Program

The Youth Adventure Program serves at-risk or underserved Grays Harbor County youth with a summer tall ship experience Lady Washington and Hawaiian Chieftain in the San Juan Islands.

Voyages of Discovery

The Voyages of Discovery program is a three-part journey through the world of late 18th century merchant sailors. Over the course of the program your students will explore a wide variety of core subject areas as they move back in time to the 1790's and see just how young people much like themselves sailed the world's oceans in search of fame and fortune. The Voyages of Discovery program culminates in your visit to the tall ships Lady Washington and her companion ship the Hawaiian Chieftain.

Understanding Sustainability

Understanding Sustainability is a flexible 1-2 week curriculum unit for Washington state middle school science educators to teach sustainability issues. This curriculum features hands-on activities that explore sustainability issues, such as energy consumption, water scarcity, and transportation choices, and potential solutions. Understanding Sustainability is aligned with Washington state middle school science GLEs and includes updated previously released Facing the Future lessons, as well as new lessons and supplementary readings. The unit includes a sequence of activities for each day, student readings, homework assignments, critical thinking questions, and assessment rubrics. Lessons link to relevant and easy-to-implement action projects, including a sustainability audit in which students investigate and make recommendations about the school’s energy, water, trash, and transportation use.

In-School Composting Technical Assistance

Schools can use in-school composting programs as experiential educational opportunities as well as "Walking their Talk" in sustainable facility management and waste reduction. Tamara will help teachers, principals, district representatives, custodians, parents, and students set up a cohesive program for composting the food waste generated at a school. She can help you through a Waste Audit, setting up food scrap separation and collection, selecting a compost system, operating and harvesting your compost as well as marketing the compost for community outreach and fundraising.

Sea Investigators Sailing & Science Program

Using Inquiry Based Learning as a central strategy, we don't just teach students about science - we provide an opportunity for students to become scientists, studying the marine environment in the same way a professional scientist might. Our floating classroom, the 61' sailing research vessel Carlyn, provides an ideal platform for the learning expeditions of a lifetime.

Beach Ranger Program

2-part, classroom visit and low-tide beach walk with Ranger-Naturalist

Environmental Clubs

Environmental education, elememtary schools, Peninsula School District, after school activities with hands on restoration and learning activities

I Don't Pollute...Do I?

Using a tabletop watershed model, students see how a watershed develops, the kinds of pollution we create, and what we can do to minimize that pollution. Includes map of the school's watershed. 50 minutes