Earth Action Education
From the ground up, Earth Action Education helps communities and individuals learn to become more rooted, skilled, knowledgeable, and enthusiastic about living in place and in harmony with natural systems. Everyone gets involved – youth and adults – in creating an EcoWise Community!
Resources available from Earth Works Institute
Available in PDF format, the Teacher Toolkit is a resource guide for educators who want to support environmental and outdoor education in New Mexico. In addition to the resource guide, Earth Works Institute has created its own outdoor ecology curriculum that includes program kits with tools for experiential learning. Program activities include watershed simulation, native plant identification, bird habitat education, aquatic invertebrate observation, and outdoor classroom design and construction.
Earth Works Institute works hard to coordinate with schools and organizations such as Earth Care International to build multidimensional educational programs to “leave no child inside.”
We seek interested collaborators, and encourage educators to contact us for more information.
Earth Action Education Activities
- Getting kids in nature – learning through fun and adventure
- Training teachers in experiential outdoor environmental education
- Designing outdoor classrooms and school gardens
- Building Green Teams committed to local eco-wise activities and projects
- Leading adult workshops on water harvesting, native ecology, restoration and more.
- Publishing how-to guides on neighborhood restoration issues
- Guiding a Community Stewardship Organization in creating goals, benchmarks, and activities to build an EcoWise Community
- Linking youth to green collar careers through our 4C – Climate Change Conservation Corps Program
- Participate in and advance the goals of the No Child Left Inside initiative
Earth Action Education Projects
- Village of Galisteo Stewardship Team
- Santo Domingo Tribe CFRP collaboration
- Arroyo de los Chamiso Stewardship Team
- Resource Audit at South Valley Academy – Exploring the School’s Ecological Footprint
- Facilitation of Santa Fe Indian School’s Green Team
- Field Study with Charter School 37
- Field Study with Gonzales Community School
- Technical Assistance to Environmental Science course at Santa Fe High School
- Technical Assistance and Field Study at Monte del Sol Charter School
- Presentation and workshop at Sustainability Symposium at Santa Fe Prep
- Co-design and co-facilitation of Teacher Institute with Earth Care International
- Collaboration with Pritzlaff Ranch
- Galisteo Basin Preserve Community Stewardship Organization
- La Tierra Camp collaboration
- See All Earth Action Education Projects
How to Get Involved
- Request a Program for Your School – Fieldtrips, Outdoor Classroom, and More!
- Ask for Teacher Training and Support
- Request a Workshop of Interest to your Community
- Help with Community Workdays
- Form or join a Green Team or a Stewardship Team
Services
- Facilitation of Green Teams
- Coaching and training for school staff and administration
- Design and implementation of outdoor classrooms
- School resource audits
- Installation of edible schoolyard infrastructure
- Organizing and hosting ecological field days for schools
- Facilitation of Stewardship Teams
- Workshops on select topics to promote ecoliteracy and wise resource management
Contact
Dana Richards, Associate Director
505-982-9806 or dana@earthworksinstitute.org
