Materials

SAMPLING OF CURRICULUM REALIGNMENT
MATERIAL FOR ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY STANDARDS

Workshops Required (at least 6 hours)
(Sponsored by the Department of Education)

• Project Learning Tree (Pre k-8)
• Project Learning Tree Secondary Modules (Focus on Risk, Forest Ecology , Focus on Forest and Municipal Sold Waste)
• Project WET
• Project Food, Land and People
• Project Wonders of Wetlands

(Sponsored by the Game Commission)

• Project Wild
• Song Birds

(Sponsored by the Fish Commission)

• Project Wild Aquatic
• Project KARE (Keystone Aquatic Resource Education)

Free Materials from the Department of Education or specified Agencies

• Penn's Woods...A Wise Use of the Land - Grades 5 through 10
• Citizens Guide to Pest Control
• Household Products Wheel
• Out of Rock
• Recycling Education (K-6 book and 7-12 book)
• Recycling and You, CD-ROM and general information (middle school)
• Streams Curriculum (Huntingdon Area Middle School)
• Recycling Curriculum and CD-ROM (available Spring/01) - Elementary Grades
• Stroud Water Research Leaf Packet (available from the Department of Education)
• Pennsylvania Resources or Good Neighbors (materials on water education/pimary)
• Pennsylvania Energy Education Books (Volumes 1 through 6)
• NAAEE Solid Waste Issues Curriculum
• Sample of Wild Resource Conservation Fund Materials
  • Endangered Species
  • Pennsylvania Bats
  • Pennsylvania Turtles
  • Magic Pipes
• Pennsylvania Agriculture Supplement
• Pennsylvania Agriculture Poster
• USDA Food Safety Newspaper
• Trade Book - Lets fo to a Pennsylvania Mushroom Farm
• Caretakers All Materials (Beef Council)
• US Geological Survey Water Posters
• Wild Pennsylvania

Collected by the Department of Education's Office of Environment and Ecology
Contact Patty Vathis at 717-783-6994 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

• Aquatic Habitat
  
• Understanding Garbage
• Acid Rain
• Living Lightly
• Windows on the Wild
• Bottle Biology
• River Cutters
• City Kids and City Critters
• Nature Scope
• The Biodiversity Debate
• Science, Technology and Society
• Where We Live
• Naturalist Intelligence
• Selection of Trade Books

Available from the Game Commission Regional Offices
A complete list of materials is available from the Harrisburg Office -
Contact: Theresa Alberici

• Elk Trunk and curriculum materials
• Wildlife of Pennsylvania Coloring Book
• Wildlife Notes
• Science and Civics Secondary Module

Available from the Fish Commission
A complete list of materials is available from the Harrisburg Office
Contact: Carl Richardson

• Reptile and Amphibian Curriculum (available mid 2001)
• Play Magazine
• Posters

Available from the Department of Environment Protection
(Contact the Environmental Education Center - Harrisburg, Jack Farster)

• Fact Sheets on subject areas such as: air, waste, recycling, pollution, water
• Learning about the Land Curriculum
• Green Works Videos on a variety of topic areas
• PA Watershed Poster
• Earth Week Materials
• Water Education Curriculum

Available from the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
A complete list of materials is available from the Harrisburg Office
Contact: Jean Devlin or Terry Kromel

• State Parks Water Education (high school)
• Heritage Park Maps
• Bat trunks (available at select State Parks)

For more information contact:
Patricia Vathis
Environment and Ecology Education Advisor 
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Pennsylvania Department of Education
333 Market Street, 8th Floor
Harrisburg, PA 17126

Voice: 717-783-6994
Fax: 717-783-3946