Valuable Environmental Education Links

Environmental Education Organizations | Other EE-Specific Websites
Government Websites | General Nature Interest

Environmental Education Organizations
North American Association for Environmental Education
A network of professionals and students working in the field of environmental education throughout North America and in over fifty-five countries around the world

National Association for Interpretation
A network of professionals and students working in the field of environmental education throughout North America

Environmental Education Association of Indiana

Iowa Conservation Education Council

Michigan Alliance for Environmental and Outdoor Education

Minnesota Association for Environmental Education

Environmental Education Council of OH

Wisconsin Association for Environmental Education
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Other EE-Specific Websites

IllinoisEE.org - a partnership between Environmental Education Association of Illinois, Illinois Environmental Education Advancement Consortium and Centers of Regional Environmental Education. The website hosts a searchable database of events occurring around the state.

Illinois Science Teachers Association Conference

University of IL Extension: Environmental Stewardship website, and a website Just for Kids

Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program This program fosters the creation and stewardship of an enhanced and sustainable environment and econonmy along southern Lake Michigan and in the Great Lakes region through education, research, and outreach.

Western Illinois University Science Education Center a website about science based learning

State Education & Environment Roundtable focuses on providing assistance and support to state departments of education

Illinois Environmental Education Advancement Consortium a partnership of professionals and agencies working together to build environmental education

Rivers Project a project in which rivers are analyzed and then the information is reported to different state agencies

Connecting Outdoor Instruction to the Illinois Learning Standards (COIILS)
View online projects that allow students to, collaboratively or independently, conduct scientific and mathematical investigations in their schoolyards and then submit their collected data using an online form.

Wilderness Awareness School
Wilderness Awareness School, an environmental organization in Washington State. Provides training for mentors of all types interested in environmental education, including professional educators, parents, naturalists, etc.

eNature.com is an exciting new web site that features searchable field guides to more than 4,800 plants and animals in North America. You can search for species by group, region, and habitat. The site also offers a free e-newsletter, teacher tips, and message boards.

SEEK
A directory to find Minnesota resources for environmental education

The GLOBE Program
A worldwide network of students, teachers, and scientists working together to study and understand the global environment

Environmental Education Links a site featuring links based on the environment

Wetland (ADOPT) and Schoolyard Habitat Projects (SPLASHD) interesting information teachers can learn about adopting a wetland

Green Teacher is a magazine by and for educators to enhance environmental and global education across the curriculum at all grade levels. With fifity pages of ideas and activities, four times a year; we're not slick...just resource-full.

Yahoo Environmental Education Search links to several sites involving the environment

Government Websites

• Projects WILD, Learning Tree, and WET Project WILD, Project WILD Aquatic, Project Learning Tree and Project Wet are four national award-winning environmental education programs the Illinois Department of Natural Resources sponsors.
  
• “Wild Illinois History” has new, improved features for 2007!
  With a mouse click, students can journey back to the earliest days of the Illinois Territory when voyageurs and Native Americans hunted and traveled the prairies, forests and rivers. “Wild Illinois History” helps students in grades 3 through 5 focus on early exploration, geography and wildlife issues.
  
  If you have used the site in the past, you'll find new features and lesson plans that make it a great supplement to Illinois history exploration. It contains streaming video, free photos, classroom materials and grant information.

  Students can learn how wildlife helped Native Americans and early settlers survive; they can see how wildlife is a part of our lives today. A fictional French trapper from the 18th Century Illinois Territory leads students on the trip. Brief story-telling slideshows are mixed with fun, interactive activities. Lesson plans and activities are correlated to Illinois Learning Standards.

Illinois Environmental Protection Agency - a website based on protecting the environment. Also see their site for educators.
2008 Poster, Poetry and Prose Contest
Fifth and sixth grade writers and artists from around Illinois are invited to compete in this year's Poster, Poetry and Prose Contest sponsored by the Illinois EPA. The contest, which coincides with the environmental education packet, "Environmental Pathways - Youth Investigating Pollution Issues in Illinois," gives students an opportunity to express and share, on a deeper and more personal level, what they have learned about the importance of protecting our air, land and water. This free teacher's guide meets the criteria of the North American Association for Environmental Education's, Environmental Education Materials: Guidelines for Excellence, and is correlated with the Illinois Leaning Standards.
This year's study focuses on the importance of clean air and what individuals can do to help prevent global warming with "Global Warming - What Can We Do?" as the event's theme. Each school can enter up to twelve (six posters and six written) works. Entries must be postmarked and sent in to the Illinois EPA by February 8, 2008. More information and contest materials can be found on the Illinois EPA's web page or by calling 217-558-7198.

Illinois Fish and Wildlife
Educator's page

Natural Resource Conservation Service
Educator's Page

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - a site to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is the principal Federal agency responsible for conserving, protecting, and enhancing fish, wildlife and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people.

General Nature Interest

Chicago Botanic Garden Several gardens on three-hundred plus acres

Friends of the Chicago River Lots of infomation about the history, tours, events, and opportunities to help take care of the Chicago River.

Chicago Wilderness

Sierra Club Great club for anyone who cares about nature

National Wildlife Federation Lots of information about the great outdoors

The Nature Conservancy Find out about the world's leading, private, international agency. Also see Gatherings Online, a monthly email newsletter of the Volunteer Stewardship Network published by The Nature Conservancy

League of Conservation Voters Informs you of how Congress voted on environmental bills. It can tell you how your senators and representatives voted by percentage.

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