Featured Programs
Featured Programs
- What does life-long learning in environmental and sustainability education look like?
- What programs enhance learning and engagement for every age and variety of cultures across Washington’s diverse communities?
- Which programs are rigorous and effective and, if linked together and scaled-up, would reach people across the state?
Programs like those featured below are the foundation for E3’s vision of a System of Education for Sustainable Communities and the achievement of the five E3 goals.
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If you would like to learn more about these programs and the wide array of available professionals, programs, curriculum, materials/media, research, and other resources that support quality learning for sustainable communities, please visit the Network Directory.
Padilla Bay Estuary Education
Offers a wide variety of programs that reach a wide range of citizens, youth and professionals to help improve the way people live with Puget Sound and the Salish Sea...Read More
Nature Mapping Program
NatureMapping is a top-down program that disseminates statewide wildlife and biodiversity information to land planners at the county and city level, and bottom-up by involving communities and schools in data collection, analysis and implementation of biodiversity information within their local communities....Read More
StreamTeam Service Learning Program
Ignite your students' minds in the beautiful outdoor classroom of the Pacific Northwest! Each year students join the StreamTeam to gain hands-on experience through service learning events. Students are able to take classroom concepts and apply them to the real world while completing much needed restoration activities. ...Read More
Voyages of Rediscovery- Educational Expeditions on the Columbia River
Using 30ft. Voyager Canoes as a medium for Environmental Education, Voyages of Rediscovery facilitates classes on the Columbia River; with trips ranging from 1-9 days, students will return to their classrooms with a newfound connection to the subject matter which they learned about on the river. ...Read More
Sound Experience: Sound Studies
Sound Studies is a program designed to spark the imagination and foster an interest in science......Read More
Lesley University’s Ecological Teaching and Learning Master of Science degree program
This 18 month MS degree program for educators, both formal and non-formal, delivers a hybrid model of online/distant learning coupled with 2 three-week summer experiential field programs......Read More
4-H Eco-Stewardship Program
The primary purpose of the 4-H Eco-Stewardship program is the development of critical life skills for at-risk and minority youth, engaging them in "Outdoor Classrooms" where they are presented with experiential learning opportunities related to the environment/natural resources surrounding their communities. ...Read More
IslandWood's School Overnight Program
Our curriculum, faculty, and staff focus on supporting schools and teachers in their efforts to raise achievement levels for all students by using the environment as a powerful catalyst for learning....Read More
“Mountain School” – Learning in the North Cascades
Mountain School is a program where students come to the North Cascades with their school class, teacher and chaperones to learn about the ecosystems, geology and natural and cultural history of the mountains, rivers and people....Read More
Friends of the Hidden River (FOTHR) - Brightwater Education Center
This project includes a national model Regional Community Environmental Educational Center, 72-acre community park, new energy test bed, and year round residential and outreach programs...Read More
Earth Explore Adventures
Fun, Adventure and Learning in the Earth’s most spectacular places....Read More
“Shadow of the Salmon” Film and Teachers’ Guide
“Shadow of the Salmon” is timely docu-drama and a middle school teachers’ guide from the Tribes with the support of many tribal, public, private and nonprofit partners. The entire film can be viewed at www.SalmonDefense.org (click on "projects") or can be ordered from Steve Robinson at the NWIFC. ...Read More
Powerful Choices for the Environment
Powerful Choices is a 4-day in-class presentation that inspires local middle school students to make positive choices for their local ecosystem....Read More
South Seattle Community College-Green Technology Career Pathways
Focus on learning requirements and career pathways in manufacturing, construction, transportation, energy production, energy conservation, and renewable resource sectors including agriculture, forestry and seafood....Read More
Homewaters Project-Ecosystems Field Investigation
Homewaters Project's “Ecosystems Field Investigation” offers training and support for teachers to enrich the 4th grade science unit by giving students an opportunity to apply their emerging conceptual understanding of ecosystems to the schoolyard and the neighborhood. ...Read More
Padilla Bay Estuary Education
Offers a wide variety of programs that reach a wide range of citizens, youth and professionals to help improve the way people live with Puget Sound and the Salish Sea...Read More
Nature Mapping Program
NatureMapping is a top-down program that disseminates statewide wildlife and biodiversity information to land planners at the county and city level, and bottom-up by involving communities and schools in data collection, analysis and implementation of biodiversity information within their local communities....Read More
Nature Mapping Resources-Videos, Teachers’ and Students’ Guide
NatureMapping Lessons help students develop skills in observation, journaling, mapping, measurements, estimation, species identification and data analysis....Read More
Yakima Basin Environmental Education Program (YBEEP)
For the past 18 years YBEEP has provided teacher training and K-12 classroom presentations, field trips, and equipment for loan, for the salmon life cycle, salmon in the classroom, salmon dissections, water quality testing, stormwater pollution studies using the enviroscape and groundwater model, furs, feathers & bones trunk, schoolyard habitat development, and habitat restoration....Read More
Alderleaf Wilderness Certification Program
The Alderleaf Wilderness Certification Program is a comprehensive, ten-month nature and outdoor survival course... ...Read More
South Seattle Community College-Green Technology Career Pathways
Focus on learning requirements and career pathways in manufacturing, construction, transportation, energy production, energy conservation, and renewable resource sectors including agriculture, forestry and seafood....Read More
Voyages of Rediscovery- Educational Expeditions on the Columbia River
Using 30ft. Voyager Canoes as a medium for Environmental Education, Voyages of Rediscovery facilitates classes on the Columbia River; with trips ranging from 1-9 days, students will return to their classrooms with a newfound connection to the subject matter which they learned about on the river. ...Read More
Sustainable Business Education: Changing Business for Good-Bainbridge Graduate Institute
Bainbridge Graduate Institute offers a pioneering education in sustainable business, infusing social and environmental responsibility throughout a the business curriculum. ...Read More
Lesley University’s Ecological Teaching and Learning Master of Science degree program
This 18 month MS degree program for educators, both formal and non-formal, delivers a hybrid model of online/distant learning coupled with 2 three-week summer experiential field programs......Read More
Alderleaf Wilderness Certification Program
The Alderleaf Wilderness Certification Program is a comprehensive, ten-month nature and outdoor survival course... ...Read More
South Seattle Community College-Green Technology Career Pathways
Focus on learning requirements and career pathways in manufacturing, construction, transportation, energy production, energy conservation, and renewable resource sectors including agriculture, forestry and seafood....Read More
Padilla Bay Estuary Education
Offers a wide variety of programs that reach a wide range of citizens, youth and professionals to help improve the way people live with Puget Sound and the Salish Sea...Read More
Curriculum for the Bioregion
"Curriculum for the Bioregion" is an initiative of the Washington Center for Undergraduate Education that aims to better prepare undergraduates, as well as ourselves, their teachers, to live in a world where the complex issues of environmental quality, environmental justice, and sustainability are paramount....Read More
Lesley University’s Ecological Teaching and Learning Master of Science degree program
This 18 month MS degree program for educators, both formal and non-formal, delivers a hybrid model of online/distant learning coupled with 2 three-week summer experiential field programs......Read More
Family Adventures at NatureBridge
Explore America's natural beauty close to home. Bring your immediate or extended family......Read More
Friends of the Hidden River (FOTHR) - Brightwater Education Center
This project includes a national model Regional Community Environmental Educational Center, 72-acre community park, new energy test bed, and year round residential and outreach programs...Read More
Padilla Bay Estuary Education
Offers a wide variety of programs that reach a wide range of citizens, youth and professionals to help improve the way people live with Puget Sound and the Salish Sea...Read More