Classroom Earth Success Stories

Slash removal

After teaching my applied ecology students about forestry management methods we toured several regions of our campus. At each place we discussed logging history and indicators of the forest health. To test them on the material the students had to identify which of the

 

Scott Olson - Tonasket School District

How to integrate environmental education with photography and technology
Scott Olson, a 12-year teacher in the Tonasket School District in Tonasket, Wash., developed a photo point monitoring project for his high school students after being inspired by a wildlife

 

Doreen Petri - Northwest Pennsylvania Collegiate Academy

How to reduce your carbon footprint and save your school $11,000

Doreen Petri teaches AP Environmental Science and Anatomy and Physiology at the Northwest Pennsylvania Collegiate Academy in Erie, Pa. Petri has translated classroom content into action through an energy

 

Janet Ort - Hoover High School

Janet Ort teaches AP/IB Environmental Science, environmental science and environmental research at Hoover High School in Hoover, Ala.
Ort, a 13-year veteran at the school, celebrated National Public Lands Day by working with her students to clean up and monitor the

 

Conrad Benedicto - Wilderness Arts and Literacy Collaborative

Conrad Benedicto is a social studies teacher and executive director of the Wilderness Arts and Literacy Collaborative (WALC), a small learning community that operates within two high schools in San Francisco: Balboa High School and Downtown High School. For more than

 

Pages