Sustainability Education – Mona Maxwell, Centre for Research in Youth, Science Teaching and Learning, University of Manitoba

Title: Sustainability-Based Learning Resource to Address "Uninteresting" and "Complex" Secondary Level  Science

Description: An innovative sustainability-based learning resource developed for use in Manitoba senior years science classrooms teaches organic chemistry topics through 22 interdisciplinary lessons and a TAKE-MAKE-WASTE project, bridging the discrepancy between students' negative perceptions of science (OECD, 2006) and the urgency with which scientific/technological solutions must be applied to sustainability issues.

Environmental Justice and Cultural History – Beatriz Mogollon, Duke University        

Title: Environmental Education for Low-Income Schools in Colombia

Description: How can EE be taught in low-income schools in developing countries? Researching what environmental education curricula are available and apt for low-income schools in Colombia, using two schools (one private and all girls, and the other co-ed and public) as case studies.

Service-Learning  - Donna Conner, Charles Filer, Jennifer Crozier, Karen Hicks, and Beth Sellers, Roanoke County Public Schools, Virginia

Title: The Roots of the Watershed and Into the Stream

Description: Unique partnerships with local companies and regional/state agencies to create a curriculum with service learning applications, through staff training, in-museum and in-school presentations, fields trips (museum, school grounds and the river), and community service projects.

Conservation and Community Education – Andy Wood, Audubon, North Carolina 

Title: Protecting Beach-Nesting Bird Habitat with Conservation-Education

Description: In summer 2002, the Wrightsville Beach Waterbird Management Area recorded seven pairs of beach nesting birds. In 2005, 826 pairs of birds were recorded; a success story come true with help from community outreach and site-based bird conservation education programs.

Fundraising and Leadership Development - Carrie Ziolkowski, Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education

Title: Biomass Energy Curriculum

Description: The race is on in the Midwest to provide electricity and heat for homes and fuel for automobiles from biomass. KEEP has taken its proven process of curriculum development and applied it to the development of a biomass energy curriculum.

Technology & EE  - Kristen Poppleton and Erica Schram, University of Minnesota, Jacob Egge, Pacific Lutheran University, Mary Romoser, Mary Stefansky, and Robert Hatlevig,  Battle Creek Elementary School

Title: Using a Web site as the Integrating Context for an Elementary Science Club

Description: This elementary school science club used the Global Warming 101 Web site (www.globalwarming101.com) as the integrating context for learning about Arctic ecology and geography. As a culminating project the students built a large scale model of Baffin Island.

Marine Education – Carol Hopper Brill and Vicki Clark, Virginia Sea Grant, Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Title: Integrating Ocean Observing Systems into Environmental and Science Education

Description: Expanding access to online data allows science educators to monitor real-world processes from their computers. This hands-on session will introduce participants to the Bridge Web site's ocean observing system data activities, with several demonstrated in-depth. Activity topics include oceanography and meteorology.