This 2-hour in-person field experience with the Children's Environmental Literacy Foundation (CELF) and the Mill River Park Collaborative (MRPC) connects your teaching practice to place-based learning in the natural world. Participants in this program will discover biodiversity and native riparian wildlife along the park's restored river bed. We will explore how environmental policy can shape …

2022 CELF in the Field (Stamford, CT): Activating Sustainability in Urban Green Spaces Read More

Join the Children's Environmental Literacy Foundation (CELF) and the Westchester Parks Foundation (WPF) for an after-school afternoon of service to support the Clean River Project. Learn how to connect the Big Ideas of Sustainability—such as the Ability to Make a Difference and Community Engagement—to your classroom practices. Participants in this program will remove plastic waste …

2022 CELF in the Field: Activating Sustainability through Community Park Restoration (White Plains, NY) Read More

Explore the tracks and traces of wildlife at Teatown Lake Reservation in Ossining, NY. During this outdoor experience, you will take a short hike in the winter woods and learn how to identify tracks and traces of local wildlife. This outdoor field experience includes activities to spark inspiration of sustainability and place-based learning in the …

New York Field Experience for Educators: Tracks and Traces of Outdoor Wildlife at Teatown Lake (Ossining, NY) Read More

Discover ways to integrate sustainability, history, and place at Mill River Park in Stamford, CT. Along the Mill River watershed in downtown Stamford, you can bask in a vibrant urban green space and visit the new Discovery Center! This outdoor field experience includes activities to spark inspiration of sustainability and place-based learning in the natural …

Connecticut Field Experience for Educators: The Mill River Watershed & Urban Communities (Stamford, CT) Read More

Along the beautiful banks of the Hudson River at the Sarah Lawrence College Center for the Urban River in Yonkers, NY, identify and interpret data sets. Leave with tools that can help you and your students make sense of graphs, figures, sketches, and data representation. This outdoor field experience includes activities to spark inspiration of sustainability and place-based …

New York Field Experience for Educators: Analyzing and Interpreting Scientific Data from the Hudson River (Yonkers, NY) Read More