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Download full textAklman, Ergun; Barroso, Luciana; Capraro, Mary M.; Creasy, Terry; Fleming, Kenneth; He, Weiling; Hong, Liang; Williams, Ashley M. – European Journal of STEM Education, 2019
Four distinct plastics recycling projects created by middle school students emerged from a one-week long plastics recycling activity incorporated within a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) residential summer camp at a research-intensive university. The plastics recycling activity was a project-based learning (PBL) activity…
Descriptors: Plastics, Recycling, Student Projects, STEM Education
Direct linkCheeseman, Adam; Wright, Tarah – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2020
While many studies have investigated environmental education programs, fewer have focused on the longer-term effects of these interventions. This study provides insight into the longer-term influences of an earth education summer camp in Nova Scotia, Canada. Data were collected using a semi-structured interview process with seven parents of…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Summer Programs, Foreign Countries, Resident Camp Programs
Miller, Lenore – Pathways to Outdoor Communication, 1993
To have a successful nature program, summer camp directors must hire qualified nature counselors, give the program equal status with other activities, promote the program to prospective campers and their parents, and incorporate environmental ethics. Included are suggestions for developing an appealing and relevant nature program. (LP)
Descriptors: Camping, Conservation (Environment), Ecology, Environmental Education
Palma, Alfred J. – 1978
Sunken Meadow State Park provides a year round three-fold ecosystem (marine beach, salt marsh, and wooded upland) of 1,266 acres for Suffolk County (NY) teachers and students to use as a site for outdoor education activities. While teachers can rely on the support of the Outdoor Learning Laboratories' staff for aid in emergencies, for clarifying…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Ecology, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education
1977
Development of environmentally knowledgeable, concerned future citizens is the ultimate goal of the Youth Conservation Corps (YCC), a program to accomplish needed conservation work on public lands while providing gainful employment for males and females aged 15 to 18. Selected work projects contribute to the resource and to the environmental…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Conservation Education, Conservation (Environment), Educational Games
Fox, Florence C. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1927
Recreational areas in the form of State parks and forests bear a close relationship to the welfare of the boys and girls of America. This bulletin is in accord with the plan of the bureau to offer, from time to time, to the elementary schools of the country certain subjects of study in the form of new materials of instructions so prepared that…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Recreation, Parks, Resident Camp Programs
