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Environmental Education Grant Profiles for the Year 1998
Center for Inland Bays - $3,714
Bruce Richards, Ph.D., P.O. Box 297, Nassau, DE 19969
Public Service Announcements on Environmental Issues Concerning
Delaware's Inland Bays
The Center for the Inland Bays, in partnership with the Delaware Audubon
Society, will produce 8 thirty-second public service announcements (PSAs)
for television and radio, covering topics related to regional environmental
concerns faced by the residents of the inland bay's watershed. Issues
discussed will be nutrient over enrichment and wildlife habitat protection
and how human activities impact these problems. specific environmental
topics, such as how shore birds are impacted by dredging and why excess
sea lettuce is being found in the bays will also be addressed.
Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control
(DNREC) - $5,000
Marjorie A. Crofts, D450, 89 Kings Highway, Dover, DE 19901
Air Curriculum for Delaware (The Three R's for Today and Tomorrow)
The program, entitled "The Three R's for Today and Tomorrow...a
Waste Minimization/Pollution Curriculum, Waste and air Section" will
use combined information from the 1990 Clean air Act Amendments; state
implementation plans; and ozone standards with curriculum activities for
the state's "New Direction for Education in Delaware" educational
standards. The work-based learning experience will include a tour of an
air quality monitoring station and teacher workshops. The curricula, when
developed, will focus on activities for grades K-12.
Kalmar Nyckel Foundation - $5,000
Andrew McKnight, 1124 East 7th Street, Wilmington, DE 19801
Challenge Program - building awareness of the environment and environmental
justice for at-risk youth in Wilmington.
Students will participate in a boat building class that will allow
them to gain an understanding of marine environments and learn more about
environmental factors affecting the Christiana River and its watershed,
including sewage outflows, commercial shipping, runoff and recreation.
The students will use microscopes, take water samples, compare the samples
of different bodies of water in the region and canoe. The class will also
have the opportunity to sail an oyster schooner on the Delaware Bay. Many
of Wilmington's industries are located on the rivers, and the Challenge
Program intends to educate students on how river water quality affects
them.
Charles County Community College - $4,350
Jonathan Blair, O.O. Box 910, Charles County, LaPlata, MD 20646-0910
Internet Workshop for Environmental Trainers
Funds will help sponsor and develop a one-day hands-on workshop to
improve the skills of Maryland Center for Environmental Training instructors
using computers and the Internet to promote learning. The workshop will
provide and overview of software and hardware, Internet basics and on-line
resources. Participants - local environmental protection experts - will
learn practical ways to perform research and gather information via the
Internet and to encourage use of the Internet by students. The training
team is made up of operations specialists, engineers, electrical and instrumentation
experts, microbiologists, utility management and financing professionals.
Patuxent River 4-H Center Foundation - $4,775
Raymond Bivens/Bonnie Dunn, 18405 Queen Anne Road, Upper Marlboro, Prince
George County, MD 20774
Environmental Career Launching Workshop
The Patuxent River 4-H Center Foundation is a 134 acre environmental
education facility that provides programs for the Maryland, Washington,
D.C./Metropolitan Area. The foundation, which will be partnering with
the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission (MNCPPC) and
Southern Maryland Cooperative Extension Offices (CES) will create a public
education program, focusing on health-related issues and the agriculture
industry. The program includes over-night environmental education sessions
involving students, teachers and parents in two days of intense hands-on
learning. Water education workshops will also be offered to teachers and
other community leaders that work with the youth. Information flyers will
be distributed to science teachers throughout Southern Maryland.
Southern Maryland Resource Conservation and Development, Inc. - $4,985
Kenneth J. Hafner, 303 Post Office Road, Suite B4A, Waldorf, MD 20602-2702
Mitchell elementary Schoolyard Habitat
This grant will support an environmental education program that Southern
Maryland Resource Conservation and Development, Inc developed in partnership
with the Mitchell elementary School in LaPlata. The program involves the
use of alternative ground covers and natural plant species to form a schoolyard
habitat consisting of a butterfly garden, wetland nursery, organic gardens,
forested area, nature trails and a stream monitoring station. Approximately
600 students of diverse ethnic background will be involved in the project
which will serve as a demonstration to the entire community of LaPlata
and should result in an actual reduction of non-point source pollution
of the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay.
Wildfowl Trust of North America - $12,000
Edward L. Delaney, Ph.D., P.O. Box 519, Grasonville, MD 21638
Tidewater Environmental Education Inservice Institute for Teachers
The training program will provide a living ecological education experience
for elementary school teachers. The goal of the program will be to help
teachers develop experiential-based curriculum that meets the environmental
standards of the State of Maryland, while strengthening the educational
resource relationship between the Wildfowl Trust of North America and
Maryland's public schools. The program's participants, a maximum of 20
teachers from different backgrounds and schools, are expected to directly
reach approximately 600 students within the first year.
Allentown School District - Cleveland Elementary School - $4,330
Jane dotter, 31 South Penn Street, Allentown (Lehigh Co.), PA 18101
Support of the Grover Cleveland Elementary School's Environmental
Education Program
This grant will be used to introduce students grades 1-4 to several
nature study areas in the greater Allentown area, and to help them become
directly involved in the learning the basics of ecology and in making
informative environmental decisions. The grant will also provide the means
to train teachers, develop services for staff-in training, environmental
in-services, transportation and equipment for hands-on exercises in student
activities at the study areas. This grant is a continuation of funding
received last year to start the program a business-education partnership
with PPL Resources, an electric utility with corporate headquarters close
to the school. Because of its success, the program has expanded into five
additional district elementary schools.
Berks County Conservancy - $3,500
Phoebe Hopkins, 960 Old Mill Road, Wyomissing, PA 19610
Berks County Outreach Initiative Watershed Awareness on a Local
Level
This is an environmental education project t the Berks County district
schools. The program will help all high schools in the Berks County district
open discussions concerning watershed improvement techniques. The initiative
will promote community involvement and local awareness; possible solutions
to problems occurring in the area will also be discussed.
Children's Museum of Bloomsburg - $4,763
Diane Wukovitz, P.O. Box 192, Bloomsburg, PA 17815
Natural Bridges - Pathways that Connect Us to Nature
This exhibit was part of the 1998 Summer Art and Science Center which
appealed to all ages - parents, educators and tourists. The multi-activity,
hands-on exhibit sought to stimulate visitors' environmental awareness
by encouraging them to experience the interrelatedness of the living and
the non-living things around them. By presenting a variety of environmental
situations, visitors will be encouraged to think about ways individual
and community decisions affect the health of their natural environment.
Clean Water Fund - $5,000
Robert Wendelgass, 607 Penn Avenue, Suite 212, Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Children's Health Education Project
Through presentations and workshops, the Project will educate students,
teachers and parents in the Pittsburgh area about potential threats to
the health of children from environmental pollution in their schools,
helping them apply the tools they learn to an analysis of their own school
environment. Focusing primarily on pesticide use in schools, the project
will train parents and teachers how to research and analyze pest control
practices in their school district; develop alternative strategies while
reducing pesticide use; and with school officials, plan a new, less toxic
pest control strategy.
Clearwater Conservancy of Central Pennsylvania - $5,000
Kristen Saacke Blunk, P.O. Box 163, State College, PA 16804
"Students - Community - Streams - Connection"
This program will help foster student relationships with Center County
based streams, primarily Chesapeake Bay headwater streams. Activities
will include collecting water plants for art projects and discussions,
writing poems, constructing water flow charts for primary elementary students.
For the intermediate elementary students: studies of temperature, depth,
PH turbidity, speed and direction of water will be conducted. The middle
to junior high school students will be more involved with scientific investigation
and working with community groups. The senior high school participants
will monitor biological, physical and chemical parameters of the stream;
establish a website and become mentors to the younger students in the
program.
El Comite de Apoyo a los Trabajadores Agricolas (CATA) - $20,000
Nelson Carrasquillo, 4 South Delsea Drive. P.O. Box 510, Gloucester County,
Glassboro, NJ 08028
Pesticide Education Outreach Program
This program will seek to educate the approximately 11,000 Mexican
migrant workers and their families living in the southern portion of Chester
County, PA on environmental justice issues, particularly pesticide safety,
preventing contamination and their rights under pesticide laws. The workers
will be encouraged to take a more active role in protecting themselves
and their families. Workers will have the opportunity to participate in
interactive learning programs, role playing and encounter case scenarios.
This education is necessary in order to successfully achieve the goals
of the EPA's Agricultural Workers Protection Standard.
Marion Center Schools - $12, 727
A. Jeff Martz, P.O. Box 156, Marion Center, PA 15769-0156
Outside Environmental Land Lab - Four Trails: Wetlands, Soil, Water,
Ecosystems
This program will increase student and teacher environmental awareness
in the Marion Center Area School District, a rural school district located
in Indiana County. They will operate a handicapped accessible environmental
education center, offering an outdoor trail, interactive student work
stations, and guest speakers. The program will target the 1,997 students
in the district, plus Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, The Audubon Society,
Friends of Parks and individuals and families. The economy in this rural
area is based on agriculture, coal and natural gas which makes abandoned
strip mines, contaminated streams, degraded drinking water and other environmental
issues present in the county. The Marion Center Area Environmental Education
Center will seek to address environmental issues affecting the area, region
and world through education and community-based programs.
Northern Bedford County School District - $3,740
Jerry W. Young, HC 1, Box 200, Loysburg, PA 16659
"Water Connections"
This grant will be used to help augment a revised sixth grade science
curriculum called "Water Connections". Approximately 90 sixth
grade students will study water quality concepts in the local wetlands.
Students will identify local water quality problems, including issues
such as the Hog Farm controversy in the county. They will follow Bedford
County waterways to the Chesapeake Bay to identify how local problems
affect the bay. Students will travel to Baltimore to learn about water
quality problems of the Bay and conduct the same water quality tests on
bay waters. The grant funds will help support testing and travel costs;
and help to publish and distribute a public awareness pamphlet.
Stroud Water Research Center - $5,000
Kristen Travers, 970 Spencer Road, Avondale, PA 19311
Red Clay Creek Monitoring Project
The Stroud Water Research Center, a non-profit environmental research
center, proposes to begin a monitoring project with Kennett High biology
class for a water monitoring project at the Red Clay Creek. These high
school students will study specific local water quality issues, while
gaining practical skills and ultimately become better equipped as participating
decision makers within their community. The funds will be used to support
teacher and student training and to purchase equipment.
The Vanguard School - $1,320
Carolyn Brunschwyler, P.O. Box 730, 1777 N. Valley Rd., Paoli, Chester
County, PA 19301
Design, plant and monitor a campus butterfly garden
The Vanguard School's science department and Junior Achievement Club,
in cooperation with Valley Forge National Park and the NOVA Society of
Lockheed Martin Corporation have proposed to design, plant, and monitor
a campus butterfly garden. Students with learning differences from the
lower and middle schools will design and construct this garden. The Vanguard
School shares campus with 110 students from the Crossroads School, who
will also have the opportunity to experience the learning laboratory.
The science curriculum for both schools will include units relevant to
the garden. The butterfly garden will be both a habitat creation enjoyed
by students, faculties and guests of the schools and a restoration area
for butterflies and insects lost through local development.
West Chester University - $4,885
Charles V. Shorten, West Chester University, Chester County, West Chester,
PA 19383
Chester County Local emergency Planning Committee Web Site Development
The purpose of this grant is to establish an electronic presence for
the LEPC on the Internet that will serve as a focal point for education
of the public regarding hazardous material incidents and preventive activities.
The project will include the establishment of a Chester County LEPC World
Wide Web site and publicizing the site to the general public, the regulated
community, and the response organizations of the County.
Wildlife Information Center - $2,400
Dan R. Kunkle, P.O. Box 198, Slatington, PA 18080-0198
Young Ecologists Camp
Working with the Trexler Trust, the William Penn Foundation and the
Boys and Girls Club of Allentown, The Wildlife Information Center is sponsoring
the Young Ecologists Summer Camp. Funding will cover camp costs, equipment
and instructor salaries. Participants will be 16 children between grades
7-9 who will study issues relative to the Kittatinny Raptor Corridor.
This program will focus on water quality, land use, wetlands and wildlife
conservation. Environmental justice issues and career development will
also be covered.
Wyncote Audubon Society - $5,000
Janet Starwood, 1212 Edge Hill Road, Abington, PA 19001
"Birds for a Purpose"
"Birds for a Purpose" supports the goals recommended by
the national science guidelines and targets under-served urban areas.
The program offers practical approaches to 4th, 5th and 6th grade natural
science education by combining classroom work and environmental field
research with hands-on environmental analysis and restoration projects
inside the students' neighborhood. Because birds are indicators of the
health of ecosystems, the curriculum focuses on birds and bird habitat
as a way for students to learn about ecology, natural science processes,
and how healthy ecosystems are essential for sustaining life on earth.
Similar pilot programs have been successful in New York City schools.
York County WMCA - $4,651
Nancy Eberly, 90 N. Newberry Street, York, PA 17401
Camp Spirit
The program will teach approximately 3,000 children, ages 5-18, and
40 teachers, the Spirit IDEA - Informed Decisions for Environmental Action.
The objectives of the program aim to increase the participants' understanding
of the environment in all areas, including outdoor-living survival skills;
to stimulate critical and creative thinking; to develop the ability to
make informed decisions and to instill the confidence and commitment to
take responsible actions.
Allegheny Highlands YMCA - $4,330
Ward H. Robens, Jr., P.O. Box 905 Covington, VA 24426
Earth Services
Earth Services, a community services program. focuses on training
teens in environmental education and community service. the funds will
be used to empower teens to make their own positive decisions and be involved
in the community; promote global environmental understanding and action
through education, project development and leadership training, organize
a long-term partnership between teenagers, teachers. community leaders,
business, government and non-profit organizations. The program, which
is open to all middle and high school students, will serve 200 teens and
involve 8 teachers, 5 businesses and completion of over 500 hours of community
service work.
American Lung Association of Richmond - $25,000
Deana Haggerty, 311 South Boulevard, P.O. Box 7065, Richmond, VA 23221
Teaching elementary Schools Today (TEST)
TEST aims to have 240 high school students teach elementary students
about various lung diseases, including asthma, allergies, smoking, second
hand smoke, indoor and outdoor air pollution. The high school students
will adopt a school and act as mentors to third and fourth grade students
in the Richmond Tri-Cities area (cities of Richmond and Petersburg and
the counties of Chesterfield, Hanover, and Henrico). The program will
reach 1,200 students (100 per school) and their teachers. TEST can be
sustained after the final implementation year by the school coordinators
who will continue to recruit and train student mentors.
Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries -
$6,498
Mr. Raymond E. Davis, VA Dept of Game and Inland Fisheries, 4010 W. Broad
Street, Richmond, VA 23230
Wildlife Mapping in Virginia
This program provides an opportunity for citizens, community groups,
school children, and others to contribute their observations of wildlife
to the state's biological databases. Through two workshops, each accommodating
20 people, participants will learn to inventory and monitor wildlife,
identify habitat and read maps. One of the workshops will train 20 facilitators
with a potential to reach 400 other people. The other workshop will train
participants how to become Wildlife Mappers. For assistance in Wildlife
identification, experts, or wildlife mapping mentors are consulted. Educators
may integrate the program into existing curricula and subject area.
Rockbridge Conservation Council - $4,800
Mollie J. Messimer, Ph.D., P.O. Box 564, Lexington, VA 24450
"Roots and Shoots at Central Elementary School"
This program aims to teach elementary students, in an informal, real
world setting about environmental issues encouraging environmental careers.
The project will involve 340 children in grades K-5 at Central Elementary
School in Western Virginia. Students will attend 90-minute sessions in
the classrooms, geared toward the academic level of each grade. Field
trips for each grade are also included in the program. Activities will
be geared toward the academic level of each grade fitting in with the
State's Standards of Learning.
Stafford County Public Schools - $14,882
Russell L. Watson, Stafford County Public Schools, 1729-A Jefferson Davis
Highway, Stafford, VA 22554
Environmental Action Through Service Learning Class
Stafford County is the second fastest growing county in the State
of Virginia. This pilot project will establish a service-learning class,
entitled Environmental Action, at North Stafford High School. This pilot
class will combine community service and a formal education curriculum.
The class will go beyond the academic study of the environment, exposing
the students to new ideas, people, and expertise. Ideas, such as the vulnerability
of the 2 local rivers, the Rappahannock on the South and the Potomac on
Coordinating Committee for Automotive Repair (CCAR)
Sherman Titens, 11301 Nall Avenue, Suite 203, Johnson County, Leawood,
KS 66211
Teacher In-Service Training for Automotive Education Instructors
at Secondary, Post-Secondary
and Industry Schools
The goal of this grant is to provide training to the individuals who
will then train automotive shop owners and technicians. The Coordinating
Committee for Automotive Repair is completing the development of an environmental
friendly program which will contain compliance and pollution prevention
information to be made available in a self-study format. Included within
this package will be compliance, pollution prevention, historical information,
and federal, state and university resources available to shop-owners and
technicians to assist them in complying with applicable environmental
regulations.
Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy Institute - $5,000
Donna Degnan, 801 Buchanan Street, NE, Washington, DC 20017
Students Impacting their Urban Environment
The Kennedy Institute is an ungraded, 12-year special education day
program. This program will adapt existing environmental education curricula
and field methods to develop a functional environmental education theme
unit for predominately minority special education students in an urban
multicultural setting. Participants will gain a greater awareness of real-life
local environmental issues. Students will learn about urban air and water
pollution and its impact on human health and the local ecosystem. The
classes will also study the impact of population growth and decline and
its relationship on the urban areas and climate as well as discussing
job opportunities in the environmental field.
Shepherd College Foundation - $15,270
Dr. James Watson, Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV 25443
Shepherd College Undergraduate Environmental Education Program
This grant will enable Shepherd College to continue to develop its
internal undergraduate environmental education program and to enhance
its outreach to the regional public schools by providing funding for student
work in the field, conferences and workshops. Funding will also enable
the program to obtain portable air, water and soil testing kits that will
enhance both on-campus teaching and off-campus continuing education courses
with public school teachers.