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What's Up in the Environment has produced three long-term projects focusing on water issues: Contaminated Water, Watersheds, and

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Students develop an integrated project through the comprehensive study of a species, a region, or both.  This long-term project requires students to explore fiction, history, cultural attitudes, and government.  The scientific data students can collect and analyze may include GIS information, climate and weather, satellite tracking/mapping, and observations from research scientists' j

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.

Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) encourages students to participate in outdoor field experiences, to initiate action projects and to become student leaders in hometown communities. CBF provides resources to students and educators on service-learning, action projects, summer leadership trips, leadership certification and more.

The Center for Ecoliteracy (CEL) provides information, inspiration and support to educators and other members of the educational community who are helping young people gain the knowledge, skills and values essential to sustainable living.

In this activity, students develop research skills through the design and development of their own research projects involving backyard bird feeders. Students take ownership of their project through construction of their own bird feeders in the classroom, maintain a journal, design a testable hypothesis, and communicate their findings through a poster.