Youth and Educational Resources
Each program will consists of different projects and activities, but will have similar over-arching environmental themes.
- DEQ’s Michigan Environmental Education Curriculum Suppliment
On
this site you can find out more about our Environmental Education
Curriculum Project which seeks to provide middle school
students with the opportunity to learn more about Air Quality, Ecosystems
& Biodiversity, Land Use, Energy and Resources, and Water Quality.
For information on the development of the curriculum click on the
image. On this site you can READ more about the lessons and find
out current workshops. - Michigan Tech (MEECS web page)
Actual lessons from the MEECS curriculum can be downloaded from this site on water quality, ecosystems and biodiversity, and energy. Click here to download lessons.
- Alliance for the Great Lakes Curriculum
- Seagrant Fisheries Learning on the Web
The curriculums that are listed FIRST all focus on Michigan and the Great Lakes Ecology and our relationship with the Great Lakes State. The last few websites are not Great Lakes specific, but are exellent environmental educational resources.
Click here to go to MEECS site!
Great
Lakes in My World offers 80 indoor and outdoor activities for kindergarten through
eighth-grade students. At this site you can BUY (about $40) the lesson book and Great
Lakes creature cards; samples lessons available online To look at sample lessons and to buy the Great Lakes in My World activities book click here.
Fisheries Learning on the Web (FLOW) is a comprehensive
curriculum about the Great Lakes ecosystem. Lessons are geared
toward educators who teach upper elementary and middle school
students. Each lesson is aligned with national and state curriculum
standards for science and social studies and features a hands-on
classroom activity. On this site you can download actual lessons
on food web, water and fish.
To find out more about these lessons and DOWNLOAD actual classrom lessons click here!:
This year the YES council has scheduled at least one youth activity per month for the 2008 - 2009 school year. Each month has a different environmental theme to go along with the corresponding activity. Each activity is designed to build students knowledge and aptitude on a specific leadership skill and empower youth with knowledge about their community's environment and how it connects to the global environment. Youth are not required to attend every activity but it is encouraged.
1. October 10 – 11, 2008 – Youth environmental leadership training
2. October/November 2008 – 2 hour civic engagement trainings with specific classes and youth groups (one on Nov 1st)
3. November 7 – 9, 2008 – Bucket Brigade: Youth and community air quality training with Global Community Monitor
4. November 22, 2008 – Bucket Brigade: Perform air quality monitoring with buckets
5. January 26, 2008 – Green Job and Career Fair
6. February 2009 – Bucket Brigade: Follow-up training with Global Community Monitor
7. March 2009 – Bucket Brigade: Youth analyze results/compare to past studies in after-school programs
8. March 2009 - Field Trip: Upland Hills Ropes Course, learn how to conduct community energy audit, and youth team building activities
9. April 2009 - Field Trip: Lansing Civic Engagement Day/Press Conference with Bucket Brigade results
10. May 2009 - Green Screen Youth Environmental Short Film Festival
11. September 13, 2009 - Adopt-A-Beach Belle Isle Clean Up
Students will select a current environmental bill and track it through the legislative process, then have the opportunity to discuss it with their legislator during our visit to Lansing. They will also be able to discuss other issues that are happening in their community, such as increased pollution, loss of wetlands, and asthma rates, leaving Lansing better equipped to tackle the problems facing their community.
- Internship program
We will match students with hands on field experience in science, environmental and public policy. Internships may include working with East Michigan Environmental Action Council, Sierra Club, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and Raymond, Rosa Parks Institutions and many more.
- Exploring Science/Environmental Careers
Through our leadership training programs and career workshops students, especially women and minorities, will be encouraged to pursue careers in science and environmental science. During career development workshops students will have the opportunity to interact with professionals in the environmental field. EMEAC is working with Michigan Universities to help find scholarships for students that work with the YES council.
- Summer Research Project and Peer Developed Initiatives
Students will work with EMEAC's Community Organizer to conduct environmental health studies in their own communities to see how pollution has impacted their personal health, that of their neighbors and that of their community.
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