Region 1: EPA New England
Environmental Education Grants Federal Fiscal Year 2001
Connecticut | Maine | Massachusetts | New Hampshire | Rhode Island | Vermont
Connecticut
Colchester Public Schools
Amount: $5,000
127 Norwich Avenue
Colchester, CT 06415
Project Steward: A School and Community Environmental Partnership.
Colchester recently purchased an 111- acre open-space property which
is expected to become an environmental classroom for the entire
community. Using the Coverts Project model (developed through UCONN
Cooperative Extension), selected teachers and students will learn
about the physical features and organisms of the property. The trained
stewards will work with DEP Goodwin Conservation Center on further
development of lesson plans that relate to open-space and land management.
80 teachers and over 100 students are expected to participate in
the pilot year.
Hartford Public Library
Amount: $5,000
500 Main Street
Hartford, CT 06104
Environmental Literacy and English for Speakers of Other Languages
(ESOL).
ESOL instructors will combine ESOL teaching methods, strategies
and techniques with environmental education content and materials.
Workshops will introduce ESOL instructors to existing EE materials
that can be incorporated into their classes. Forty participants
are expected to attend. The Hartford Library has partnered with
CT DEP for the Hartford Neighborhood Environmental Project.
New Fairfield School District
Amount: $10,642
3 Brush Hill Road
New Fairfield, CT 06812
Project CLEAR: The Candlewood Lake Environmental Awareness and
Responsibility Project.
An alliance of education, community, and environmental agencies
organized to demonstrate and disseminate a model watershed protection
education initiative for K-12 schools and the 5 communities surrounding
Candlewood Lake. This project will develop inquiry-based environmental
education programs in the schools and communities surrounding Candlewood
Lake to foster widespread support for and involvement in watershed
protection programs. K-12 educators and community representatives
will become trained in Project WET. A core group of teachers will
infuse Project WET into the curriculum at specific grade levels.
Schools will partner with community organizations to provide field
experiences in water activities. A minimum of 15 educators and 700
students in grades 5, 6, 9 and 11 will participate in the project.
CT Department of Public Health
Amount: $18,360
410 Capitol Avenue
Hartford, CT 06134
This environmental education project will educate cultually diverse, low-income families on how to identify and manage indoor air pollutants that contribute to the exacerbation of asthma in children. The program will focus on educating families who live in dwelling units targeted by the City of Hartford Health Department (HHD) for lead-based-paint hazard reduction, under separate funding by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
Maine
Morris Farm Trust, Inc.
Amount: $14,700
Wiscasset, ME 04578
Ecological Forestry & Agriculture for Rural Maine (Eco-FARM).
The Morris Farm Trust in partnership with many organizations will
work with teachers to employ the farm=s facilities, property and
operations as a way to explore concepts like sustainable agriculture,
forest ecology, energy efficiency, and natural resource management,
as well as meeting the State of Maine Educational Frameworks. Through
several learning projects students will find real solutions to real
challenges facing farm operations.
Quebec-Labrador Foundation
Amount: $12,000
55 South Main Street
Ipswich, MA 01938
The Bays Stewardship Network.
(This grantee is from Massachusetts, but all work on the project
will be conducted in Maine). This project will encourage a sense
of environmental stewardship and connection toward the Cobscook
and Passamoquoddy Bays. 100 teachers and students in at least 7
Washington County, Maine and New Brunswick, Canada communities are
expected to participate in training workshops and research projects
on environmental issues pertaining to the bays.
Massachusetts
Bristol Community College
Amount: $10,000
777 Elsbree Street
Fall River, MA 02720
Improving Water Quality and Protecting Wetlands.
A series of 10 forums with expert presenters and panelists will
provide educational experiences in the development and implementation
of sound water quality and wetland protection issues for the southeastern
Massachusetts watersheds region.
Community Foundation of Southern Massachusetts
Amount: $5,000
227 Union Street, Suite 609
New Bedford, MA 02740
The Southeastern Environmental Education Alliance (SEEAL) Watershed
Expedition.
This 23-member organization will strive to encourage environmental
awareness and stewardship in the area, particularly in watershed
protection. Urban high school students and teachers will work together
on a five-day program exploring the environmental issues of the
Acushnet, Slocum, and Paskemanset Rivers, Aponagansett and Cedar
Swamp and Turner Pond. Students will use topography maps, charts,
and GIS information to look at habitats for protection of drinking
water supplies as well as watersheds and salt water estuaries
Earthworks Projects, Inc.
Amount: $5,000
34 Linwood Street
Roxbury, MA 02119
Schoolyard After-school Program.
Earthworks will strive to create a healthy, sustainable urban environment
through neighborhood and school-based tree plantings and environmental
education programs. Earthworks will expand its extremely successful
after-school gardening program to three new urban elementary schools.
The schoolyard orchards curricula meets the Massachusetts state
science frameworks and learning standards.
Mystic River Watershed Association, Inc.
Amount: $5,000
20 Academy Street, Suite 203
Arlington, MA 02476
New Century Environmental Leadership Institute (NCELI).
The Mystic River Watershed Association formed the Institute along
with Tufts University. The goal of the Institute is to equip participatiing
students with tools to become professionals and leaders in watershed
restoration research, policy development, and environmental education.
This will afford the student a richer and more complex understanding
of the responsibilities and challenges of environmental professionals.
Sharon Public Schools
Amount: $5,000
1 School Street
Sharon, MA 02067
Environmental Education through Field Research.
This organization will introduce and intergrate outdoor environmental
education through field research and/or outdoor education at grades
3,5,7, and 10. This group will also develop a strategy to incorporate
environmental education into the 10th grade biology classes, provide
training for secondary and elementary teachers, and increased awareness
to students and the community of the local, natural environment
through a variety of media.
South Shore Natural Science Center
Amount:$8,142
Jacobs Lane
Norwell, MA 02061
Willow Brook Farm Preserve: A Communit Resource.
The Science Center, along with the Town of Pembroke, will develop
an environmental program at the Willow Brook Farm Preserve which
will provide professional development workshops and activities for
teachers. Over 400 Pembroke and Hanover 3rd and 4th grade students
are also expected to participate along with parent-chaperones.
Southeastern Regional Planning and Economic Development (SRPEDD)
Amount: $4,784
88 Broadway
Taunton, MA 02780
Youth Involved in Community Planning Partnership with Taunton Boys and Girls Club.SRPEDD along with the Boys and Girls Club of Taunton, through an after-school program for 10-13 year olds, will offer a series of hands-on learning experiences on land use planning with examples from their own community.
St. Joseph's School
Amount: $4,095
555 Washington Street,
Quincy, MA 02169
Earth Week 2002 in Quincy, Massachusetts.
The City of Quincy will host an Earth Week to educate the community
and students about environmental and health issues in their city.
Three schools will host one of the three major events planned for
the week. Some of the activities include: a Whale Day on ocean life
protection, forest protection, Yard Day on disposal of hazardous
wastes and how to protect the environment in your yard, and Boston
Harbor Islands history and cleanup.
Triton Regional School District
Amount: $5,000
112 Elm Street
Byfield, MA 01922
Newbury Elementary School Environmental Education Project Outdoor
Classroom.
An outdoor classromm will be developed at the Newbury Elementary
School to provde an inquiry approach for learners to obtain knowledge
and skills that allow them to adopt lifelong appreciation of the
environment. A pumkin patch, butterfly garden, composting program,
and birdhouse area are planned as part of the outdoor classroom.
Westport River Watershed Alliance (WRWA)
Amount: $5,000
1151 Main Road
Westport, MA 02790-0703
Watershed Education Program (WEP): Grade 5 Dune Grass Restoration
Field Study.
WRWA will focus on promoting environmental integrity, advocating
stewardship of the watershed's natural resources, and educating
the public about the interrelations of our water, soils, plants,
animals, and people. WRWA has developed the Watershed Education
Program and worked with the Westport schools to incorporate this
curricula into the school system. WRWA is expanding the WEP curriculum
to include a 5th grade field study program to provide hands-on,
field-oriented and applied learning opportunities outside the classroom.
Over 150 students, 20 parents, and 6 teachers are expected to participate
in this expansion.
New Hampshire
Audubon Society of New Hampshire
Amount: $12,500
3 Silk Farm Road
Concord, NH 03301
The Northern New England Science Center Collaborative: Docent
Training Program.
The Collaborative was formed to examine the issue of global warming.
The goal is to further develop their scientific model of science
education which studies a specific environmental issue by linking
research institutions to science centers and the public. This project
proposes a training program for docents and teachers focusing on
current climate change concepts, potential changes to the region's
ecosystem, and exposes science center staff to cutting-edge science
in climate change being conducted in New England.
Merrimack River Watershed Council
Amount: $10,419
181 Canal Street
Lawrence, MA 01842
The Pilot Teacher Training Project (PTTP).
(This grantee is from Massachusetts, but all work on the project
will be conducted in New Hampshire). This project will consist of
3 teacher workshops for at least 20 eighth grade Manchester, New
Hampshire educators to implement the Merrimack River MATTERS (Manchester
Actions That Totally Enhance River Sytems) environmental education
curriculum.
New Hampshire Project Learning Tree
Amount: $5,000
54 Portsmouth Street
Concord, NH 03301
Focus on New Hampshire Forests.
This project will raise awareness and understanding among teachers
and students about important environmental New Hampshire forest
issues. PLT will develop fact sheets and resource lists that examine
these contemporary issues. The fact sheets and lists will then be
used in PLT's teaching modules.
Rhode Island
Groundwork Providence, Inc.
Amount: $13,977
69 Washington Street
Providence, RI 02903
Mashapaug Pond Nature Center Summer Camp Program.
Efforts are underway to create an educational garden and trails
at Mashapaug Pond in Providence. Thirty Green Team inner-city youth
will work throughout the city in the 2001 summer to create a new
environmental education component for the boating center at the
pond. Youth will be trained in brownfield sites, water quality,
native and non-native plant species, and recreational and educational
use of open green space.
Providence College
Amount: $4,963
549 River Avenue
Providence, RI 02918
Community-based Network to Monitor Birds as Indicators of PCB
Contamination.
PCBs accumulate in the body tissues and are prevalent in animals
at the top of the food chain. This project outlines a three-stage
examination of herring gulls and common terns around Narragansett
Bay. It analyzes PCB levels in bird carcasses and eggs, counts gulls
and tern populations in contaminated areas, and establishes a network
of community observers to accumulate a database on bird plumage
as an indicator of PCB contamination in Narragansett Bay.
Vermont
Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium
Amount: $5,000
1302 Main Street
St. Johnsbury, VT 05819
Teaching Tools for Sustainable Forestry.
A project to a) purchase instructional and inquiry-based tools for
field and classroom study of sustainable forestry; b) support a
Museum partnership with consulting foresters and a wildlife ecologist
to produce a week-long professional development course on sustainable
forestry for teachers in the four-state Northern Forest region;
and c) disseminate in print and on the world wide web an instructional
guide focusing on sustainable forestry and encouraging inquiry-based,
standards-linked classroom and outdoor study.
Shelburne Farms
Amount: $5,000
1611 Harbor Road
Shelburne, VT 05482
Place-based Landscape Analysis and Community Education (PLACE)
Program.
A new community-based environmental education model by Shelburne
Farms and University of Vermont's Natural Areas Center. PLACE will
bring together K-12 teachers, parents, civic leaders, and residents
for a series of lectures and hands-on field trips exploring the
natural and cultural history of their community. Shelburne Farms
will work with teachers to develop standards-based curricula that
engages K-12 students in real-world environmental issues in their
community.
Vermont Forum on Sprawl
Amount: $10,000
110 Main Street
Burlington, VT 05401
"Way to Grow" Public Education Project Regarding Sprawl.
This organization will expand its "Way to Grow" program
to include: 1) twelve monthly events to take place in 12 different
regions of the state, 2) a six-part series of op-ed pieces in six
weekly newspapers, and 3) improvements in their web page. The purpose
of this program is to increase awareness of what individuals can
do about sprawl in their communities.