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Iowa Environmental Education

Achievee
Achievee is a group of 16 Iowa environmental education organizations that offer graduate credit opportunities, residential programs, reform models and in-depth classroom activities for teachers and their students. Click here for a copy of Achievee's directory, which outlines more than 35 programs and services available to educators and their students. Note: This is not a website, but a pdf.

County Naturalists
Through field trips and in-class programming, county naturalists promote the development of skills and education within the art of interpreting the natural and interpretive environment.

Environmental Issues Instruction (eii)
This program trains teachers in environmental issues and instructional methods that can be introduced into classrooms K-12.

GLOBE
GLOBE is a worldwide network of students, teachers, and scientists working together to study and understand the global environment. GLOBE students collect data in 4 major areas: Atmosphere, Hydrology, Soils and Land Cover/Biology. This website describes the GLOBE project, Iowa GLOBE, and gives information about GLOBE workshops.

Iowa Conservation Education Council
ICEC is a statewide environmental education membership association, and offers workshops and other resources for K-12 teachers.

Iowa Environmental Education
This website addresses environmental education issues in Iowa. It includes news, curriculum updates, information about grant opportunities, and workshop details.

Project WET
Project WET is Water Education for Teachers, and this website provides sample lesson plans from the Project WET guide, and gives information about workshops, water trivia and other water-related issues.

REAP Conservation Education Program
The Conservation Education Program (CEP) is a key provision of the Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) Act of 1989. A five-member board implements the CEP and annually they allocate approximately $350,000 in grants for conservation education in Iowa. Note: REAP CEP funds has assisted in making this website as well as the workshops, Waste Reduction: Addressing the Overlooked "R" and Service Learning: Moving "Reduce, Reuse and Recycling" Beyond the Classroom.

Website mission: Provide formal and nonformal educators with resources, lessons plans, and a forum for information exchange to facilitate education about waste in K-12 classrooms. Webmaster: Susan Salterberg, Center for Energy and Environmental Education, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0293; salterberg@uni.edu Last Updated: January 5, 2005; Copyright 2005 University of Northern Iowa. All Rights Reserved. http://www.uni.edu/ceee/wastereduction

Thanks to the Iowa Waste Reduction Center at the University of Northern Iowa and especially to their director, John Konefes, and to their webmaster, Jason Ebensberger, for assistance with this website. This website was prepared with the support of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources Contract Number 04-G550-24. However, any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of IDNR. Funding support was also provided by the Resource Enhancement and Protection Conservation Education Program (REAP CEP): Invest in Iowa , our outdoors, our heritage, our people. REAP is supported by the state of Iowa, providing funding to public and private partners for natural and cultural resource projects, including water quality, wildlife habitat, soil conservation, parks, trails, historic preservation and more.