This article includes information about environmental groups and resources (such as those provided by government, its agencies, and existing or proposed legislation) that serve K–12 schools in the United States and internationally.
A panel of judges including experts in environmental science, biology, and education determines the year’s top achievers by age group and awards a prize to the winners.
Cool the Earth (CTE)[3] is a program that educates K-8 students and their families about global warming and encourages them to take simple actions to reduce their carbon emissions.
CTE's mission is to educate children and their families about climate change and motivate them to take simple and measurable energy conservation actions that reduce their carbon footprint.
The Campus Climate Challenge is a growing generation-wide movement to stop global warming, by reducing the pollution from high schools and colleges down to zero and leading society to a clean energy future.
In addition, they planned the first national youth climate change conference, Power Shift '07 at the University of Maryland, College Park and at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC.
Each issue of Green Teacher offers perspectives on the role of education in creating a sustainable future, practical cross-curricular activities for various grade levels, and reviews of the latest teaching resources.
This project gives youth a voice, increases positive media coverage and helps individuals, schools, communities and many others tackle climate change.
Based on the LEED for New Construction rating system, it addresses issues such as classroom acoustics, master planning, mold prevention and environmental site assessment.
In conjunction with Scholastic Corporation, Lexus designed this national competition to challenge middle and high school students to create and implement environmental programs in their communities.
The National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities[20] provides information on planning, designing, funding, building, improving, and maintaining safe, healthy, high performance schools.
The No Impact Man web site[22] has a curriculum to help middle and high school students explore the effects their everyday behavior has on the environment, their health, and their well-being.
Thousands of citizen scientists participated in the inaugural pilot test of Project BudBurst in 2007 and as a result useful data was collected in a consistent way across the country.
The enthusiastic response and robust participation in the 2007 pilot effort made it clear that there was sufficient interest from the American public to expand Project BudBurst in 2008!
Teens Turning Green,[29] or TTG, is a student-led movement devoted to education and advocacy around environmentally sustainable and socially responsible choices for individuals, schools, and communities.
[33][34] The Zero Footprint Foundation[35] challenge encourages students across the world to take climate change into their own hands by competing to reduce their school’s environmental impact.