Introducing the Environmental Educator in Residence Science Program!
We are rolling out the green carpet for schools with a fully-funded week-long immersive learning opportunity that reaches the entire school community and embeds environmental education into the school. Each school will be paired with professional environmental educators who will support a full week of fun hands-on environmental education activities to engage your students.
Goal of the Program: To foster school-wide environmental literacy and ethics through unique learning experiences, interactive displays, hands-on learning workshops, curricular-aligned classroom presentations and activities, school-wide challenges, local expert guest presenters, along with field trip opportunities to bring the curriculum to life!
Topics: The Residency program can span various topics, including energy, forestry, wildlife, water, agriculture and climate. The Inside Education Environmental Educators in Residence will work with each school to frame their residency on a specific theme or guiding question connected to environmental literacy and customize activities to align with the appropriate grade learning level of their students. The program can utilize existing school amenities to center programs (e.g, garden beds or greenhouses, solar panels, etc.).
Audience: This program is open to K-12 schools.
Fees: Fully Subsidized, with over a $3,000 value! This includes environmental educator time, resources, material costs, and busing to off-site locations.
Program Info
As part of the program:
- Classes will take part in fully funded field trip opportunities to local field sites, see environmental innovations in action, and learn from expert guests focused on responsible resource development.
- The Educator in Residence will host and facilitate grade-appropriate hands-on presentations and activities connected to the science curriculum.
- Inside Education will support the school with student-led environmental action projects that will encourage further environmental literacy and stewardship
- Schools will take part in a school-wide challenge throughout the week (i.e. recycling challenge by class, etc.).
- Students will have the opportunity for outreach and engagement with the broader community
- Teachers will take part in professional development Lunch ‘N Learns or workshops to provide background content and additional curriculum-linked classroom activities.
- Topic-relevant learning resources and equipment will be provided for ongoing environmental education - including an Energy Toolkit, our newly updated Running Water poster kit, and the Energy Innovation poster kit! See our Learning Resources for a peek at some of the other options available.
Sample Schedule
Sample Schedule by Theme:
*Below is a sample schedule of what the Residency Week could look like based on a specific Theme. The Environmental Educators in Residence can work with your school to customize your week-long program as you see fit.
*All teachers will take part in a Teacher Professional Development Workshop, providing background content and additional curriculum-linked classroom activities. This can be on any day of the week that best fits the school schedule, and can tie in to an existing PD day, a Lunch N’ Learn, or during a scheduled staff meeting.