This one day, 3-hour event draws over 2,500 high school students from the Antelope Valley and is held annually at Edwards Air Force Base, located in the city of Palmdale during the month of September. Students arrive by busess and are treated to an opening ceremony featuring various aircraft from Edwards AFB.
Students are invited to [...]

Rio Tinto Minerals – Borax offers a Transportation Grant for public schools to go out to the Visitor Center at Boron. They will reimburse schools up to $350 per school per year toward transportation costs.

Curriculum for 4th and 5th grade levels

Volunteers or Students interested in teaching environmental education. A 30-hour teacher training workshop on the various Jr. Naturalist lesson plans. Participants will be eligible for a $50.00 teacher stipend each day they teach.

Introducing…Barbara Jacobs, “Featured Teacher”

The amazing Joshua Tree!

1977-86 High Desert School Busses Eligible for Replacement, Retrofits Thru CARB

Students from Sultana and Desert Trails High Schools in Hesperia were recently honored for “thinking and acting green” by the Alliance to Save Energy. Through the Alliance’s Green Schools Program, students, faculty and staff lowered energy costs in the Hesperia Unified School District by more than $660,000 over a five-year period. In addition [...]

California’s Education & the Environment Initiative (EEI) requires environmental education concepts to be incorporated into the state’s academic content standards for grades K-12. Visit the EEI website NOW to view draft units which are currently being field tested in school districts throughout the state.

Vol. 6 Issue 1 Winter 2008

One of MEEC’s “EE Dream Team” members, Mary O’Connell has done some amazing things to make a difference in the lives of our kids and our environment!
Mary O’Connell has taught high school biology – which includes a strong ecology component – at Eastside High School in Lancaster for eight years. She spearheaded the placement [...]