Resource Library

Promise of Place is a project of the Center of Place-based Learning and Community Engagement. Promise of Place supports place-based education by facilitating collaborative efforts in research, program design, technical assistance, resource development and dissemination.

The National Register of Historic Places provides a great avenue for social studies teachers to get their students outside. The advanced search locates places using numerous fields, including geographic location, area of significance and period of significance.

This guide provides a brief introduction to the 1990 Clean Air Act. The 1990 Clean Air Act is the most recent version of a law passed in 1970 to clean up air pollution. This simplified guide is the perfect way to introduce this law to students.

This directory contains over 2,000 nature and environmental education centers nationwide. Centers are searchable by location and include contact information.

Photo: Jason Morrison

NatureFind helps people locate opportunities to experience nature. NatureFind features over 200,000 events annually at more than 8,000 individually selected places. Events and places are searchable by location.

Follow Earth Gauge outreach coordinator Ann Posegate as she embarks on a media expedition to Antarctica.

Although written in the context of the Alaskan school system, this handbook offers great suggestions for integrating the traditional Native knowledge of any region and science. It outlines how to make the teaching of science relevant and meaningful in culturally adaptive ways.

Click on the act to be directed to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) informational pages

1969 – National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

1970 – Clean Air Act

1970 – Reorganization Plan No. 3 (established the EPA)

ENTRI (Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators) is a comprehensive online tool for accessing international environmental treaty data. There is status data for environmental treaties, treaty text and tools for searching for treaties by subject or country.

The EPA’s Teacher Center features a collection of environmental curriculum, reference materials, fact sheets, brochures, teaching aids and Web pages teachers can use to educate themselves and introduce environmental issues into the classroom.