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• Air Quality and School Bus Idling Curriculum
  The Sierra Club North Star Student Group's curriculum designed for 3rd - 8th graders on air quality and school bus idling.
• Blackduck Schools
  Studies of the water quality of three streams which flow into Blackduck Lake
• Blue Sky Guide Fundraiser
  The Blue Sky Guide fundraiser program provides an environmentally friendly option for school or community groups. Blue Sky Guide promotes healthy living, sustainable local businesses, and environmental stewardship.
• Classroom Earth
  This site has a collection of environmental education programs and resources for K-12 teachers, parents, and students.
• Concordia University's (OR) Masters of Education in Curriculum and Instruction: Environmental Education
  Concordia University in Portland, OR offers a M.Ed. in Curriculum & Instruction: Environmental Education. It is fully online and is designed to prepare K-12 educators as specialists in the study of the earth's environment.
• Conserve School (Land O' Lakes, WI)
  A semester-long immersion for high school students in environmental studies and outdoor activities that deepens their love of nature, reinforces their commitment to conservation, and equips them to take meaningful action as environmental stewards. The Lowenstine Honors Scholarship program fully covers tuition, room, and board for all students.
• Coon Rapids High School Great River Project
  Project for high school students to study rivers using many different skills
• Creative Cardboard: Environmentally Friendly and Recycled Art Projects For Kids
  This website offers a list of resources, links, and ideas for hands-on art projects using recycled materials.
• Discover Minnesota
  Traces Minnesota History from the Ice Age to the present.
• EIC School - Great Expectations School
• FREE Network
  This site is for teachers and students at all grade levels who want to learn more about forests and the management of forests.
• From the Ground Up
  Online resources allow students and teachers to explore how imagery of the earth is used in managing our natural resources.
• Green Building for Schools
  These resources on green building are intended to introduce school administrators, facilities staff, and teachers to the spectrum of sustainability possible within schools. The list includes general resources, teaching materials, and links to case studies.
• Green Charter Schools Network
  The vision of the Green Charter Schools Network is for every person to be environmentally literate and to practice and promote sustainability in their community.
• Green Schools - Illinois EPA
  Site includes mercury alternatives and a Green Schools Checklist with information about energy, solid waste, indoor air, pest management, mold, water consumption, laboratory waste, renovation and purchasing.
• Green Schools Web Site
  Place for teachers, students, and school administrators interested in combining energy education with real energy savings
• Healthy Schools Campaign
  The mission of the Healthy Schools Campaign is to advocate for policies and model programs that allow students and staff members to learn and work in a healthy school environment.
• Hopkins High School Freshwater Academy
  A group of five teachers at Hopkins High School share a common group of 10th, 11th, and 12th graders for the whole school day for 9 weeks. The program has an intensive field based environmental education curriculum concentrating on freshwater resources and development.
• Illinois Resource Guide for Healthy High Performing School Buildings
  This is a free downlaodable resource (though you need to register) containing 23 chaprters. The web page includes the links from the document.
• Integrated Pest Management in Schools
  Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is an alternative approach to controlling pests using the most appropriate and least hazardous techniques. Good resources and information for school managers, teachers, maintenance personnel and parents.
• Investigate Biodiversity
  Online educational tool that allows students and educators to learn research methods from the pros; interact with field scientists; access real world data from endangered ecosystems; and link to articles, websites, student science fair projects, and other resources.
• K12 Today
  A tool for creating a custom, content enriched, website for your school.
• Kentucky Green Healthy Schools (KGHS)
  The KGHS Program is a voluntary effort to empower students and staff with the tools needed to take action and make their school operate at peak efficiency.
• KidWind Project
  Lesson plans and hands-on kits for renewable energy science projects.
• Kindersafe
  This website provides links to information on toy safety and to groups and resources that can be used to take action on product safety.
• Lac qui Parle Valley Water Testing
  Lac qui Parle Valley High School's water lab Web site.
• Living for the Wild - Student Curriculum and Essay Contest
  The Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness offers a free wilderness education curriculum and accompanying essay contest for students in grades 9-12.
• Lynd Public Schools
  Study the impact of the flooding of the Redwood River.
• Meet the Greens
  MeetTheGreens.org is a new kids' guide to looking after the planet. Kids can watch The Greens' cartoon adventures and discover related green games, news, downloads, a blog, action tips, links, and more.
• Minnesota Association of Charter Schools
  MACS is a membership organization with 4.5 years of history working to assist new & existing charter schools
• Minnesota Healthy Schools Program
  The vision of the Minnesota Healthy Schools program is of a public school system that embraces health and sustainability standards as a norm.
• Minnesota K-12 Schools
  A list of schools throughout the state with links to schools that have sites available.
• MyHealthySchool.com
  MyHealthySchool.com provides teachers, administrators and parents with action plans for creating greener, healthier, more socially responsible schools and children.
• NASA 's Climate Kids: A kid's guide to climate change
  The Climate Kids website from NASA answers questions of climate change for students in grades 4-6 in a kid-friendly way. The site also includes a collection of Earth science-based games to illustrate weather changes, and includes educator resources.
• NASA's Education Materials Finder
  This website helps teachers locate resources to use in the classroom. Search for resources by keywords, grade level, product type, and subject. With hundreds of publications and websites indexed, the finder is the best way to locate NASA educational resources.
• NAUSICA - French National Sea Experience Centre
  French National Sea Experience Centre (NAUSICA)invites instructors, teachers and group leaders to discover all the educational resources that we have to offer.
• Scholastic's ACT GREEN!
  ACT GREEN! is a fun, educational website designed to motivate and empower kids to take action in school, at home and in their community to preserve the environment.
• School of Environmental Studies - ISD 196
  The School of Environmental Studies at the Minnesota Zoo (SES) is an optional high school in the Rosemount/Apple Valley/Eagan School District.
• Schools for Energy Efficiency (SEE)
  Schools for Energy Efficiency (SEE) is a comprehensive program is for K-12 schools to save energy and money by changing behavior throughout the district. SEE provides a systemized plan, training, and utility tracking for immediate and sustainable savings.
• Shorebird Migration Science & Mystery - A Distance Learning Adventure
  Take your class on a journey and travel more than 6,500 miles with millions of shorebirds as they migrate from Panama to Alaska. For Grades 5-8.
• Skewl Sites
  Our mission is to find The Best of Educational Web Sites. We examine hundreds of sites each month and look for quality sites to present to you.
• St. Olaf College's
  This site is an account of St. Olaf College's environmental stewardship.
• STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
  STEM is a statewide campaign that is directed towards high school students, their parents and educators, promoting the importance of high school achievement, the value of rigorous courses, particularly math and science, and the need for early career and postsecondary planning.
• Stowe Elementary
  An elementary school in Duluth with an environmental emphasis for preschool through 5th grade
• Student Conservation Association
  SCA is Americaŭs conservation corps. Our members protect and restore national parks, marine sanctuaries, cultural landmarks and community green spaces in all 50 states.
• The Blake/Journey North Monarch Butterfly
• The Children's Butterfly Site
  This site contains a wealth of information about butterflies and moths including coloring pages, frequently asked questions, information about life cycles, teaching and learning tools, stories and more.
• The Teacher's Corner
  TheTeachersCorner.net features free K-12 lesson plans, science projects and activities sorted by grade, printable worksheets, and e-learning opportunities. There are also seasonal items, ideas for a bulletin board, tips for teachers, awards, and books for children, teens, and teachers.
• The Toonies ENVIRO-Shows
  Tricia and the Toonies have been offering environmental education programs to students and community events accross the Midwest. Nominated for the Minnesota Music Award, these interactive programs with music and puppets have been an EE favorite for for more than a decade.
• True North - Mapping Minnesota's History
  The Minnesota Historical Society created True North: Mapping Minnesota's History to provide Minnesota's teachers with the knowledge, curriculum, and tools to teach the state's new graduation standards for geography and history, using online digital resources and applications.
• University of Minnesota-Duluth Center for Environmental Education
  An overview of UMD's Center for Environmental Education and related degree programs of the school in environmental education.
• Water on the Web
  Water on the Web (WOW) is a project that allows high school and college students to monitor Minnesota lakes over the Internet. WOW integrates state-of-the-art environmental monitoring with geographic information systems, data visualization, and in-depth educational materials.
• WaterShed Action
  The site offers one-stop help in planning and organizing service-learning projects to prevent water pollution in your watershed. Within this site you can access everything from scientific background information or curricula, to local experts or stencils for painting storm drain signs.
• Web66
  A K12 World Wide Web Project
• Wisconsin's Green School Program
  The program encourages teachers, staff and students to work together to use the school, its grounds, and the whole community as learning tools to help teach sound environmental practices and promote environmental sustainability.
• WolfQuest
  Designed for youth, ages 10-13, WolfQuest teaches wolf behavior and ecology through its exciting gameplay and intense social interactions.
• Zerofootprint Youth Calculator
  Designed for American students, the calculator encourages students, classrooms, and entire schools to measure and manage their own carbon footprints while developing creative ways to curb their carbon output and slow climate change.