Place-Based Enviro-Education
A Resource Guide for
Early Childhood Environmental Educators
Are you interested in teaching young learners how to connect to their natural environment and be stewards in their communities?
This website teaches educators how to enhance students’ environmental literacy across subjects and build scientific skills through a variety of resources, narratives and perspectives. We will teach you how to take students outside in a way that makes them feel connected to the land and natural world in the context of their school yard and backyard.
Students will start to make strong personal connections to the natural world, which will lead to them building empathy, behaving differently and taking action for a more just, equitable, and sustainable future.
Explore resources by theme
The themes are broken down into three core environmental indicators of sustainability that are developmentally appropriate for young learners.
Water
Learn why water is so precious
Understand the role of water, where its located, and how much freshwater there is on Earth. Find and explain how your local watershed moves through the water cycle and connects to all water on Earth. See the visible and invisible impacts we're having on watersheds and what steps we can take to improve the health of our watersheds.
The benefits of regular time outdoors
