Environmental Education Directory
Looking for an organization, program, or resource to help get your students, family, or colleagues engaged in environmental learning? RIEEA has compiled a comprehensive, searchable list of opportunities throughout the state and online that offer resources for educators, families, and more.
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Climate Classroom
Climate Classroom is a flexible, multi-disciplinary middle school curriculum, designed by Citizens’ Climate Lobby to give students a toolkit of advocacy skills for climate solutions. Lessons are grouped in three modules: Impacts of Climate Change, Climate Solutions, and Taking Action. Instructional materials include lesson plans, slide presentations, and a Climate Classroom Journal for students to reflect, take notes, and do independent assignments. Everything is aligned with national standards in English Language Arts (ELA) and Social Studies, and the Next Generation Science Standards.
Climate Literacy & Energy Awareness Network
The CLEAN portal is led by the science education expertise of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder and the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College. CLEAN’s primary effort is to steward the collection of climate and energy science educational resources and to support a community of professionals committed to improving climate and energy literacy. It offers a collection of high-quality, digital resources, including learning activities, visualizations, videos, and short demonstrations/experiments, as well as a professional learning community geared toward educators of students in secondary through undergraduate levels.
Coalition Center for Environmental Sustainability
Ever emerging environmental, social and economic challenges necessitate a lifestyle that fosters sustainability. CC4ES categorizes resources and organizations focused on sustainability into six interconnected modules: environmental justice and diversity, environmental literacy fundamentals, sustainable food systems and lifestyle, regenerative technologies, sustainable business practices, and resilient community and leadership building.
Coggeshall Farm Museum
Experiential learning is part of the fabric of Coggeshall Farm Museum. It is a living history museum exploring the lives of Rhode Island’s tenant farmers working the fertile land along the salt marshes in the late 18th century. As a museum of methods, they are uniquely poised to provide real-life contact with the past, while encouraging students of all ages to reflect on the differences and similarities with their lives in the present.
Community Boating Center
Located in India Point Park, the CBC provides outreach, sailing lessons, and affordable access to the Providence waterfront so that all members of the community have an opportunity to sail and paddle. During the summer, CBC offers one week EcoAdventure and two-week youth sailing camp sessions. Youth after-school programs and scholarships, adult evening classes, and waterfront “Sailebration” sailing parties and facility rentals are also available.
Community Health Innovations of Rhode Island
CHI-RI checks the pulse of the community to build on its assets and develop tailored programs that better address the community’s health and wellness challenges. Advocacy work is done through the Mt. Hope Coalition to Increase Food Security where multiple groups and stakeholders meet to address different issues in the food system. CHI-RI started the Sharing Garden in Billy Taylor Park which produces healthy, local food in the Mount Hope neighborhood of Providence, RI. Adult and youth education happens at the Sharing Garden in multiple ways including open access to the garden and its produce, free workshops, and the Teen Plot-to-Plate youth program.
Compost Research & Education Foundation
The Foundation offers trainings, courses, research and educational materials on composting, as well as works to increase public awareness on the benefits of organics recycling and increased compost use. Holds an annual week-long event in May called International Compost Awareness Week, which encourages people across the country and around the world to learn more about composting.
Conanicut Island Sailing Foundation
Through educational field trips, after-school, home-school, and in-school boating programs, CISF inspires and engages people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities with the marine environment. CISF’s four core values drive every decision and program: opportunity, education, stewardship, and positive youth development.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Celebrate Urban Birds
Celebrate Urban Birds strives to co-create bilingual inclusive, equity-based community science projects that serve communities that have been historically underrepresented or excluded from birding, conservation, and citizen science. The project seeks to promote better science through the equitable exchange of knowledge, increased access, centering missing voices and experiences, and by intentionally advocating for community ownership and leadership of scientific research. Together with participating communities the project has co-developed processes to co-design, pilot, and implement research and scientific programming while centering race and equity.
Creative Options
Since 1999, Creative Options has been dedicated to promoting behavioral and emotional wellness for children, youth, and families throughout Rhode Island. With 7.8 acres of trails and multiple performance and education areas, including stages for lectures and live performances, they design and implement positive behavior support and crisis intervention strategies at the school, program, and district level.
