Boeing Essay Contest “Forests: THe Lungs of The World, Can Earth Survive Without Them?” Write a 250 word essay on what effect does a healthy forest have on our earth?

School Garden Mini Grants are now available! Are your students interested in worm composting, organic gardens, reading gardens, or vegetable gardens? Would you like to take the classroom outdoors? Now is the opportunity to apply for a school garden mini grant o help you achieve these goals!

MEEC is proud to sponsor its fifth MEEC “Teacher of the Year” Awards. Three winners will be selected to receive this prestigious honor; one first place winner, who will receive $300 in cash and a plaque, and two MEEC “Teachers of Excellence” recipients, who will each receive $100 in cash and plaques.

Sustainability and greening have become buzz words for strategies we must adapt to ensure that planet Earth will continue to have the qualities necessary to support human life. Unfortunately, some issues have become stumbling blocks on the road to sustainability. In this four week course, we will examine a number of them including nuclear energy, cities, genetically-engineered crops, and ocean aquaculture.

MEEC, the Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District (MDAQMD) and the Air & Waste Management Association (AWMA) have a special program to award outstanding environmental science fair projects throughout the High Desert. A MEEC judge will come to your school to award the “Outstanding Environmental Science Fair Project” to one of your students during [...]

Participation in the Green Schools program improves education through hands-on, real-world learning about energy and energy efficiency and strengthens schools by saving money on energy costs. Learn how your school can become a “Green School”!

The Richard C. Bartlett Environmental Education Award is awarded annually to an outstanding educator who has successfully integrated environmental education into his or her daily education programs. The award is given to an educator who can serve as an inspiration and model for others.

Linda Hoover has been a teacher at Riverview Middle School in Helendale for 17 years. She has taught 7th life science for 12 years and an introduction to environmental science for the past year. Her enthusiasm for teaching science overflows to her students.
She has been active in various programs through MEEC [...]

The 24nd annual Desert Symposium will be held at California State University’s Desert Studies Center at Zzyzx, on the shores of Soda Lake south of Interstate 15 between Barstow and Baker, California.

The goal of EEI is to increase environmental literacy for California K-12 students by teaching Science and History-Social Science academic content standards to mastery within an environmental context

FREE Environmental Science Fair Project Teacher Workshop! Great handouts and dinner is included in this two-hour workshop.

During the 2008-09 school year, classes from all over the United States and Canda went on FREE live, interactive field trips that followed the magical migration of monarchs. Monarch curriculum materials that meet the national science education standards are available online to teachers. View this fascinating documentary and experience the flight of the Monarch Butterfly!

Toshiba America Foundation offering small grants starting at $5,000 and over that support innovative projects designed by math and science teachers to make their classrooms more exciting and successful for students.

Keleen “Kelly” M. Wrighten has been teaching in the Lancaster School District since 2000 teaching 6th grade at New Vista Middle School.
Mrs.Wrighten received her Liberal Arts degree from Chicago State University in 1995 and recently received a Master’s of Science for Educational Counseling from the University of La Verne in January 2009.
She has participated [...]

YOU could be the one to make a difference in your community—for the planet! Submit a description of your Green Effect idea by June 8, 2009. Ten finalists will be announced July 7, 2009. Online viewers and a distinguished panel of judges will review these inspiring ideas.