Green Schools

Norma Velia Williamson - La Mirada

Every year for the past six years, the 2,300 students at La Mirada High School in Los Angeles County, Calif. celebrate an energy-themed National Environmental Education Week and Earth Day event. Science students display renewable energy and environmental projects while state agencies, including the California Coastal Commission. The school choir and jazz band perform and students play a variety of eco-themed games.

La Mirada Spanish teacher Norma Williamson coordinates the event. She is passionate about environmental education and uses it to help her students understand the environment through hands-on learning.

It's Easy Being Green: Green Building and Climate Change

This lesson introduces students to green building practices and their benefits. Students collaborate to design their own green building, conduct an energy audit of their school and use the resulting data to suggest ways to improve the school's energy efficiency and reduce its carbon output.

Be Water Wise! School Water Audit

EE Week's Be Water Wise! School Water Audit guides students through their own audit of school water use, encouraging them to "find the leaks" in the water use at school and develop strategies to improve water conservation.

Greening School Grounds: Creating Habitats for Learning

In this popular anthology from Green Teacher magazine, readers will find step-by-step instructions for numerous schoolyard projects, along with ideas for enhancing learning by addressing the diverse needs of students.

Creating a Pond Habitat in your School Garden

Students design, create, and install a lasting piece of the school garden.  Through creating a pond habitat high school students are challenged to build a sustainable ecosystem from start to finish.  The lesson includes instructions for installation and information regarding the many forms of life found in a pond habitat and their relationship to one another.

2013 EE Week Photo Contest

Do you have an inspiring photo of how you and your school or organization are engaging students in environmental education? EE Week invites you to upload your photos, including those from digital cameras, camera phones and social media sites like Instagram to the EE Week Photo Contest. Your photo can depict activities either inside or outside the classroom, before, during or after EE Week.

Go Green @ School: 20 Great Ways Students and Teachers Can Help Save the Planet

This book provides 20 ideas organized into four commonly recognized areas of environmental concern: Air, Energy, The Earth and Water. All ideas in Go Green @ School are ready to implement immediately and are supplemented with tools such as forms, visuals, reminder cards, contracts and instructional plans.

Alliance to Save Energy Green Schools Program

Alliance to Save Energy's Green Schools Program trains to use a diagnostic toolkit that assesses the energy usage in their school. The school building becomes a learning lab for students to apply science, math, and even language arts to solve a global challenge.

Greening STEM 2013 -- Using Technology to Investigate the Outdoors

Original Broadcast on February 28, 2013

Educators got ready for EE Week 2013: Taking Technology Outdoors by tuning in with the Pacific Education Institute (PEI) on February 18, 2013 to explore how to use technology to engage students in investigative outdoor field experiences.

Greening STEM 2012 -- Field Investigations and STEM

On March 28, 2012, EE Week partnered with the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies (AFWA) and the Pacific Education Institute (PEI) to explore how the schoolyard or local public land can provide students with the opportunity to be scientists using the skills and knowledge of inquiry to collect real-world data.

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