Over the past two years, the Children’s Environmental Literacy Foundation has been working with the Putnam Valley Central School District to develop sustainability as an integral part of teaching and learning across all grade levels. The project’s goal was to create a lasting legacy of an environmental and civic-minded school community with a deep connection …
Our CELF Citizen Science: Connecting Classrooms to Community program is well underway for the spring semester. After two professional learning workshops held in January and March, teachers are now back in their classrooms helping their students collect neighborhood data with AirBeam technology. They will be collecting particulate matter readings over the coming month, and will learn …
Now in its second year, the CELF Citizen Science: Connecting Classroom to Community program has exciting new support from the National Geographic Society. Through a National Geographic Explorer grant and a Geo-Inquiry Process partnership, the Children’s Environmental Literacy Foundation — CELF — , has expanded the semester long program that engages students (grades 5-8) as …
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“CELF is needed now more than ever.” — Dr. Maida Galvez On January 24, 2019, CELF celebrated 15 years of providing environmental literacy and sustainability programs for K-12 schools with a speaker salon held at The Astor House in New York City. The event highlighted CELF’s mission to ensure education for sustainability as an integral …
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Creative, dedicated teachers are CELF's inspiration. When we work with schools to integrate environmental literacy across the curriculum, we see some amazing outcomes. We'd love to hear from YOU how CELF programs have been integrated into your classrooms and the change you’ve seen in your students as a result. "CELF Stories from the Field" is …
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NYC middle school students and teachers shared AirBeam data and pollution prevention plans developed as a result of their findings. Each participating school presented their Air Quality Citizen Science projects as connected to environmental health impacts and local NYC communities. See video message from grantor, NYSP2I. Director, NYSP2I Chuck Ruffing Congratulates CELF, Project Partners, Teachers …
A collaboration between CELF's Student Ambassadors and Pace University, the Walk will raise awareness of the global water crisis and raise funds to provide LifeStraw® Community filters to schools in need. Join us as we simulate the trek that many women and girls around the world make each day to collect water. With just a …
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