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Register for EE Week, April 11-17, 2010

National Environmental Education Week (EE Week) is the largest organized environmental education event in the United States. EE Week increases the educational impact of Earth Day by creating a full week of educational preparation, learning, and activities in K-12 classrooms, nature centers, zoos, museums, and aquariums. By participating in EE Week, you encourage your students to make a difference in their schools, homes, and communities!

This year, we welcome Wal-Mart Foundation as National Sponsor. We are grateful to Canon USA for helping us launch EE Week in 2005 and for its ongoing generous support.
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Don't use the toilet to dispose of tissues or other trash. Every flush uses 3.5 to 7 gallons of water.

No use el inodoro para desechar pañuelos de papel u otra basura. Cada descarga usa de 3.5 a 7 galones de agua.

Source: Fairfax Water

What's New...

Get 'em Outside!

The No Child Left Inside Coalition produced this video on the value and importance of using the environment as a context for learning.

  

  

City of Miami Mayor Receives Water Savings Reports from Students

Students from 13 schools across Miami-Dade County presented reports from a month-long water measurement and conservation exercise at Miami City Hall. City of Miami Mayor Manny Diaz, along with NEEF President Diane Wood heard reports from more than 100 high school, middle school and elementary students. Read the press release (May 21, 2009, pdf)

 

EE Week's Photo Blog Contest

Educators from around the country have shared their environmental education stories and photos by submitting them to the 2009 EE Week Photo Blog Contest. Contest winners will be announced soon. View the blog

 

EE Week Partner Keystone Adventure School and Farm receives President's Environmental Youth Award

The Keystone Adventure School and Farm, Inc., in Edmond, Okla., is one of 10 schools and organizations winning the 2008 President's Environmental Youth Awards. Keystone students put together a sustainability plan to make their school "green." Working together as a team, students and staff recycle, use chemical-free cleaning practices, compost, and take part in many other activities to "green" their campus and learn how to care for the natural world. Read about all ten winning projects

 

Bertha Vazquez

NEEF announces the 2009 Bartlett Award winner: Bertha Vazquez

Bertha Vazquez, a teacher at George Washington Carver Middle School in Coral Gables, Fla. is this year's Richard C. Bartlett Award winner. The Bartlett Award recognizes a teacher who has creatively brought environmental learning into the classroom. Learn more

 

National Environmental Education Week 2009:

Be Water Wise!  

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Grant Recipients Celebrate EE Week with School Greening Projects

Three DC-area schools celebrated National Environmental Education Week by undertaking school greening projects that reduce their carbon footprints. Learn more 

 

Ask an Expert

EE Week invited students to submit questions about water, and our panel of water professionals answered their questions on video. In this video, Brian Mosby, Plant Superintendent for the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission's Western Branch Wastewater Treatment Plant explains where water goes after it leaves a home.

Click here for all of the answer videos.