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Environmental Curricula Grants, Melinda Gray Ardia Environmental Foundation

  • January 25, 2020

The Foundation seeks to contribute to the development, implementation and/or field testing of environmental curricula that meet the mission, goals and requirements below.


Grant Mission:

The mission of our grant program is to support educators in developing and implementing holistic environmental curricula that:

   • Integrate field activities and classroom teaching, and
   • Incorporate basic ecological principles and problem solving.

Grant Goals:

We have developed our grant program with the following goals:

   • To empower and encourage students to become involved in
     solving environmental and social problems
   • To promote thoughtful and appropriate analysis and
     understanding of the natural world
   • To train students as informed decision makers through the
     emphasis and application of basic ecological principles.


Grant Requirements:

To be awarded a grant, environmental curricula must:

   • Show a holistic approach
   • Strive to synthesize multiple levels of learning
     (facts, concepts, principles)
   • Include experiential integrated learning and problem solving
   • Be founded on basic scientific principles, including hypothesis
     testing and experimental design
   • Incorporate basic ecological principles and field environmental
     activities within a primary or secondary school setting
   • Present controversial issues objectively, stressing the
     development of individual student opinions

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