Education for a Sustainable Environment

Stewardship
Cooperative Education
Service Learning
Outdoor Discovery
Hands-on, 
Minds-on Learning

Providing
Environmental Education 
in Appalachian Ohio 

Rural Action
19627 Walnut Street
P.O. Box 157 
Trimble, OH 45782

Phone: 740-767-4938 
FAX: 740-767-4957


ELP Homepage

Curriculum and the Educators

Internet Curriculm Resources

School Links Page


Environmental Learning Program Staff:

Email: elp@ruralaction.org


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Photos by Elizabeth Newman and Leslie Horner.

Internet Curriculum Resources

ELP has compiled a list of lessons from Project Wild and from Project Learning Tree that can be used by teachers before or after ELP works with their classes. Teachers who do not work with ELP could utilize these lessons as well.


Project Wild
Project Wild is an interdisciplinary, supplementary environmental and conservation education program for educators of Kindergarten through high school age young people. You can obtain the Project Wild Activity Guide by attending a training workshop.

Project Wild Contact Information:
Web Site: http://www.projectwild.org
Email: info@projectwild.org
Phone: 713-520-1936
In southeast Ohio, contact the Ohio Division of Wildlife Office for information on training workshops at 614-592-2211.

Project Wild Lessons

ELP Episode: Adaptations of Plants and Animals
What Bear Goes Where?
Seeing is Believing or The Eyes Have It

Aquatic Explorations and Water Conservation
Dragonfly Pond (Aquatic Project Wild or APW)
The Glass Menagerie
How Wet Is Our Planet? (APW)
Pond Succession
Riparian Zone
Where Does Water Go After School

Biodiversity
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

Forest Ecology
Animal Poetry
Classroom Carrying Capacity
Litter We Know
Owl Pellets
What's Wild?
Who Lives Here?
Wild Words: A Journal Making Activity

Habitats
Flip the Switch for Wildlife!
Everybody Needs a Home
Know Your Legislation: What's In It For Wildlife
Migration Headache (APW)
Planning For People and Wildlife
What's That, Habitat?
Wildlife is Everywhere!

Interdependence
Dragonfly Pond (APW)
Deadly Skies (APW)


Project Learning Tree (PLT)
PLT is an award-winning, interdisciplinary environmental education program for educators working with students in PreK through grade 12. PLT helps students gain awareness and knowledge of the natural and built environment, their place in it, as well as their responsibility for it. You can obtain PLT's PreK-8 Activity Guide or Secondary Modules by attending a training workshop.
PLT Contact Information:
Web Site: http://www.plt.org
Email: info@affoundation.org
In Ohio, contact Bill Schultz or Sue Wintering of the Ohio Division of Forestry for information on training workshops.
Bill Shultz: Phone 614-265-6704, Email: Schultz@dnr.state.oh.us ).
Sue Wintering: Phone 614-265-6657, Email: plt@dnr.state.oh.us ).

Project Learning Tree Lessons
Aquatic Explorations and Water Conservation
Every Drop Counts

The Flow of Energy and Cycling in Nature
Tale of the Sun

Habitats and Forest Ecology
400-Acre Wood
People of the Forest
School Yard Safari

Interdependence
Air We Breathe
Pass the Plants, Please
Pollution Search

Recycling
A Peek at Packaging
Make Your Own Paper
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle


Contact:
elp@ruralaction.org 
Phone: 740-767-4938 
FAX: 740-767-4957

 

 


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