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Sign up now to participate in National Environmental Education Week, April 13-19, 2008!

National Environmental Education Week, made possible by Canon USA, promotes understanding and protection of the natural world by actively engaging K-12th grade students and educators of all subjects in an inspired week of environmental learning and service before Earth Day. To date over 650 schools, nature centers, zoos, museums, and aquariums from around the country have pledged to implement EE Week activities, and you can join them!

This year EE Week 2008 will focus on a special Carbon Footprints theme. Participants will have access to a wide variety of free environmental education resources, including:

?Standards-based environmental education lessons and activities, including special Climate Change Educational Resources developed by the Earth Day Network and an online Student Carbon Calculator;
?Monthly electronic newsletters highlighting the latest EE curricula, professional development, and funding opportunities;
?Opportunities for online communication and knowledge-sharing with educators from across the country, including a special EE Week Photo Blog made possible by Canon USA.

Questions? Email EEWeek@neefusa.org or call 202-261-6484.

You can join National EE Week뭩 efforts, promote environmental learning, and gain national exposure for your work by registering today at:

June 23-27, 2008 ~ Berkeley, California
August 9-13, 2008 ~ New York, New York
Center for Ecoliteracy professional development opportunities for schools and districts wanting to create learning connections between healthy school food and curriculum. Presented by the Center for Ecoliteracy and Teachers College Columbia University.

March 31 ?April 25, 2008 ~ Online
The Cacapon Institute 3rd Annual Stream Cleaner Environmental (SCE) Forum offers students the opportunity to explore nonpoint source pollution, role play as stakeholders to draft position papers, support or challenge their peers across the internet, and work together to build a consensus solution. The SCE Forum is open to up to 30 high school classes ## urban, suburban, or rural ?anywhere in the Chesapeake Bay watershed that has internet access. To see the lessons and format of the SCE Forum click on the phone on the Web site.

Green Theory & Praxis, a double-blind and peer-reviewed online journal, seeks essays and book reviews for its upcoming June and December 2008 issues that will situate themselves within the transformative nexus of sustainability education, critical pedagogy, ecocriticism*, *ecological politics and forms of permaculture. Please visit the journal's Web site to freely register, submit one's work online, and gain more information.

Deadline: March 13, 2008
Diversity, Learning, and Inclusive Excellence: Accelerating and Assessing Progress conference on October 16-18, in Long Beach, California, aims to help campuses take diversity efforts to the next level of comprehensive, coordinated action, where educational benefits for all students and for the institution more broadly, can be demonstrated in meaningful ways. In this new conceptualization, progress is marked by the integration of diversity and educational quality efforts as well as a move from isolated programs and course offerings to a network of policies and actions, including policies and actions around assessment.

Special Offer for Classroom Teachers! Free 1-Year Subscription to YES! Magazine.

YES! magazine is an ad-free quarterly journal published by the Positive Futures Network, an independent, nonprofit organization supporting people뭩 active engagement in creating a just, sustainable, and compassionate world. Our stories are about real people making positive change in the real world. They are stories of hope that are especially inspiring to young people.

YES! honors classroom teachers for engaging and inspiring the next generation. Thanks to the generosity of our funders we can provide K-12 classroom teachers and college faculty with a one-year introductory subscription at no cost.

Sign up now and start your free year of YES! with our next issue devoted to climate change solutions with compelling stories by Bill McKibben, Joanna Macy, youth, and others about what's needed for us to meet this global challenge.

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The CAPCO Classroom Aerosol Adventure Kit contains all of the materials necessary to teach your students about the Earth뭩 protective upper ozone layer, CFCs, and aerosol products in a fun and active way. The kit includes a teacher뭩 guide, classroom activities, experiments, homework assignments, and the DVD, "Another Awesome Aerosol Adventure," created by the makers of "Beakman뭩 World." It is a perfect compliment to standard teaching materials and an excellent way to meet state SOLs. The kit is free and can be ordered or downloaded from CAPCO뭩 Web site.

News story by freelance journalist Jennifer Oladipo

It was not so long ago, and it still remains the case in many states, that
whenever budgets need to be tightened, environmental education gets squeezed out. But Teddie Phillipson, the director of the year-old Center for Environmental Education at the University of Louisville, said a growing respect for environmental education, backed by resources, means Kentucky's current budget crisis won't put environmental education in critical condition.

By Deanna S. Neil. Land of Curiousities is the first tale in a series of adventures with the Clifton family into Yellowstone, the year that it is declared the world뭩 first national park. The collection is staged around defining events and themes in the history of the environmental movement as told through the experiences of these courageous young fictional characters, James and Alice, who learn to protect each other and the environment. The first book, for ages eight and up, includes a real history section, and was inspired by real events and places.

By Laurie Olsen, Jhumpa Bhattacharya, and Amy Scharf. Cultural Competency: What It Is and Why It Matters illustrates the need to adapt services to be more respectful, effective, and appropriate to culturally diverse populations, by building mechanisms into organizations' daily operations that foster continual learning. Download the report:

Teens for Planet Earth (TPE) is an international program developed by the Wildlife Conservation Society based at the Bronx Zoo. Visit TPE to learn more about the environment and conservation, develop a service-learning project that뭠l impact your own corner of the globe, and gain recognition with TPE annual Service Awards. TPE also supports educators and adult leaders.

Walden Media is offering these interdisciplinary, downloadable educator guides to accompany their films and books. The lesson plans are written by educators for educators and comply with national standards in content areas.

One-third of amphibian species are currently endangered. Join the Amphibian Project and Amphibian Ark in celebrating 2008 as The Year of the Frog by educating your students about amphibians, their importance, and the current global crisis. You and your students can help protect amphibian species.

For only $55 (professional membership rate), you get a wealth of member benefits that include the new Members-only version of EE-News, discounts on conference registration and publications, access to our membership directory for valuable networking, the ability to influence NAAEE policy through participating in Committees and Commissions, and more !

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