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School kids help with turtle research project in Forest Park

St. Louis, Mo. — Turtles can teach us a lot about our environment, say researchers at the St. Louis Zoo who are tracking the reptiles who live inside Forest Park.

Garden soaks up flood water, pollutants at Moss Point school

Escatawpa, Miss. — Some Moss Point students have been tackling a tough environmental assignment. They had to create a project that can help alleviate flooding at their school and keep pollutants from reaching the Pascagoula River. Their solution was to plant a garden.

Environmental education, in nature's classroom

Reading, Pa. — A colony of bees hanging from a bush and bats napping on the rafters of a covered bridge are not among the things young students learning about the environment can see sitting in a classroom.

Students put the trout back in South Portland's Trout Brook

South Portland, Maine — May marked the culmination of a five-month educational program called Trout Kids, run by the Portland Water District. Each January, PWD gives trout eggs to elementary and middle school students throughout the Sebago Lake watershed.

Administration Names 78 Schools in 29 States and D.C. as First-Ever U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools

April 23, 2012 — U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was joined today by White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson to announce the first-ever U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools, a list including 78 schools that span 29 states and D.C.

At an urban L.A. school, nature grows — and test scores too

Los Angeles, Calif. — At Leo Politi Elementary, workers ripped out concrete and planted native flora. The plants attracted insects, which attracted birds, which attracted students, who, fascinated by the nature unfolding before them, learned so much that their science test scores rose sixfold.

Join EE Week April 15-21, Highlighting Green STEM Innovation!

Increasing STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) knowledge and expanding STEM education and career opportunities for students is a national priority. A projected 2 million STEM-related jobs will be created by 2014, according to U.S. Department of Labor statistics. Jobs relating to the environment are among those expected to see the fastest growth this decade.

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