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Showcase Environmental Education in Your Community
Host a “No Child Left Inside Days” event and invite the media and your representatives.
Project Learning Tree invites you to join in an exciting national effort to get students out of the classroom and into the great outdoors to explore, learn about and enjoy the environment.
What: During the “No Child Left Inside Days” campaign, students, teachers and environmental educators will set aside time to go outside and take part in special activities that will increase kids’ understanding and appreciation of their natural world.
When: Anytime! Activities can be one class period, one day, one week, or longer.
Where: Outside!
Who: Students and teachers across the country.
Why: Students love learning about their own world, but many do not have the opportunity to take part in well-planned, outdoor educational and exploration activities. Many teachers don’t realize the value of, or are not given time for, using the amazing real-world laboratory that exists just outside the school doors. This campaign will get teachers and kids outside to learn and will focus congressional attention on the value of environmental education.
How do I get involved?
If you are:
A teacher, plan a special outdoor learning activity. Invite a member of Congress to attend. Send us any materials your students create such as journals, photos or other documents. We’ll post them on our Every Student Learns Outside Website and share them with the public to highlight the value of environmental education.
An environmental or conservation group, print the materials on the Every Student Learns Outside website and get in touch with schools near you. Urge teachers to take part and help them spread the word to local media and members of Congress. If you provide environmental education activities for students let your community and your congressperson know about it.
Visit our Action page for sample press releases, media advisories, suggested activities and more.
Add the location of your activities to a No Child Left Inside Days map and see what others across the country are doing.
Research has shown the value that environmental education brings to schools. Kids grow more engaged in their work and perform better on assessments in every subject.
We believe that all children should be given the chance to learn more about their world.
Let’s start making sure that happens. Please support and take part in “No Child Left Inside Days.” |
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