{"id":471,"date":"2010-06-17T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/?p=471"},"modified":"2010-12-08T12:24:32","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T17:24:32","slug":"collaborative-effort-nets-needham-schools-epa-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/collaborative-effort-nets-needham-schools-epa-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaborative effort nets Needham schools EPA grant for EcoExplorers Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"none\">A collaborative effort involving multiple organizations has resulted in an EPA Environmental Education grant to the Needham Science Center.  The two-year grant, totaling $44,500 plus in-kind grants of about $15,000, will be used to implement a <strong>collaborative environmental education program<\/strong> called the <strong><em>Eco-Explorers Project<\/em><\/strong> that fundamentally transforms the way our K-5 students and classroom teachers interact with the environment.<\/p>\n<p id=\"none\">Led by Science Center Director Mary Rizzuto and the SC staff, the project utilizes an Environmental Education Leadership Team (EELT) that functions as a professional learning community. The collaboration that made the proposal possible will not only continue, but expand, as <strong>the project will use the resources of over 11 community partners<\/strong> including Needham Community Farm, the Needham Public Schools Food Service, 5 Parent Teacher Councils (PTCs), Green Needham, Needham Department of Public Works, Friends of Woods and Waters, and the Conservation Commission.<\/p>\n<p id=none>Eco-Explorers focuses on the environmental issue of Sustainability through hands-on, mind-on exploration, inquiry process skills, and authentic science-based learning. The project is designed to institutionalize an approach that will bring students from awareness to knowledge\/skills, to problem-solving\/decision-making, and to action\/stewardship as 4th and 5th grade Eco-Rangers. Most importantly, <strong><em>teachers and students will experience environmental education embedded within the social framework of sustainability and multidisciplinary content rather than as a stand-alone subject<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Eco-Explorers-Project.pdf\">Read a two-page summary of the planned Eco-Explorers project here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collaborative effort involving multiple organizations has resulted in an EPA Environmental Education grant to the Needham Science Center. The two-year grant, totaling $44,500 plus in-kind grants of about $15,000, will be used to implement a collaborative environmental education program<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}