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The Mojave Environmental Education Consortium is pleased to announce it’s 2011/2012 Environmental/Science Scholarship Program. MEEC will be awarding up to five scholarships for the 2011/2012 academic year.
Earth Science Teaching Prize Eligibility Expanded
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More teachers than ever are now eligible to win the Edward C. Roy, Jr. Award for Excellence in K-8 Earth Science Teaching. The deadline for entries is rapidly approaching!
This award recognizes one full-time teacher from kindergarten to eighth grade, or the U.K. equivalent, for leadership and innovation in Earth science [...]
YELC – A STEM Service Learning focused conference introducing students and teachers to environmental professionals while learning to develop Environmental Service Learning Projects to improve their local environment.
The Mojave Environmental Education Consortium is pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for Grade K-12 teachers to receive a full scholarship to attend a two-day “place-based” outdoor workshop that will demonstrate to educators how to utilize arts and group facilitation to achieve more investment from students.
The new MEEC 2011 Fall Newsletter has arrived! Click here to take a peek at all the wonderful things MEEC has been up to! MEEC NL 10-2011 web“MEEC 2011 Fall Newsletter”
Learn how to help students develop cooperation and leadership skill through STEM!
For a third consecutive year, MEEC has been awarded prestigious grant funding from The Boeing Company Charitable Trust. Funding for the 2012 year was in the amount of $30,000 and will provide high quality EE workshops, resources, curriculum, kits and tools for more than 250 teachers throughout the High Desert.
One of MEEC’s long term goals to see environmental clubs established on every campus within the High Desert.
Provided by a grant from the Boeing Company, “Clean Air” teacher workshops present hands-on training sessions which provide you with the tools to enable your students to conduct scientific research on an environmental problem (air pollution), draw conclusions, and develop critical thinking skills while learning how to reach logical conclusions and solutions.
Each participating teacher will [...]
Provided by a grant from the Boeing Company, “Renewable Energy” FREE teacher workshops present hands-on training sessions which provide you with the tools to enable your students to conduct scientific research on renewable energy sources, draw conclusions, and develop critical thinking skills while learning how to reach logical conclusions and solutions about our future energy usage.
Provided by a grant from the Boeing Company, “Clean Air” teacher workshops present hands-on training sessions which provide you with the tools to enable your students to conduct scientific research on an environmental problem (air pollution), draw conclusions, and develop critical thinking skills while learning how to reach logical conclusions and solutions. FREE workshop, FREE $100 Clean Air Kit!!
MEEC is gearing up for its 7th Annual Youth Environmental Leadership Conference (YELC) – the office is buzzing with energy as staff works with MEEC partners taking YELC to the next level of leadership by incorporating Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics through Environmental Service-Learning Projects
Tell us in 250 words or less how we are using natural gas today in our homes, business, and how we might use this clean burning fuel to reduce energy costs and air pollution in the future.
PLT’s GreenSchools! program, in partnership with the US Forest Service, and the Corporation for National and Community Service, provides a blueprint for educators, students, environmental and health advocates, school board members, parents and interested community members to teach, learn, and engage together in creating a more green and healthy learning environment at their school. It combines environmental education, service learning, and leadership opportunities for students to help turn their school into a model green school.
The contest will encourage teams of students, with guidance from their teachers, to come up with smartphone app ideas that will benefit the earth and the environment in a substantial way. The contest will be open to schools worldwide.