Links & Resources
With more than one million students, teachers, and administrators, New York City schools produce hundreds of thousands of tons of solid waste every year. There are many ways to reduce the amount of waste generated at your school. Think about how you, your friends, and family can help your school to help the environment.
NYSERDA Energy Smart Schools
NYSERDA's Energy Smart Students program provides teachers and students with opportunities to learn about energy and its impact on the environment and economy. It offers curricula, workshops and hands-on instructional support for classroom lessons in energy and energy efficiency.
Lower East Side Ecology Center
The Ecology Center works toward a more sustainable New York City by providing community-based recycling and composting programs, developing local stewardship of green space, and increasing community awareness, involvement and youth development through environmental education programs.
The Catskill Center provides a wide variety of assistance to schools and teachers including a great, free opportunity for K-12 school districts within the NYC Watershed called the Catskill Stream and Watershed Education Program. The Center also supports the production of the children's play The City that Drinks the Mountain Sky.
DEC New York City Environmental Education Program
The NY Department of Environmental Conservation offers professional development workshops, an afterschool conservation club, and a summer camp program. DEC educators can host an interactive table at environmental fairs, give talks about environmental careers, and more.
The Horticultural Society of New York
The Horticultural Society's Appleseed program integrates science learning with math, writing, cultural history, geography, and artistic expression. The curriculum is based on National Science Education Standards. The Horticulture Society also designs and builds gardens and advises on green roof technology.
Council on the Environment of New York City
CENYCs Environmental Education green citizenship effort motivated 930 high school and intermediate students in 22 projects in four boroughs and the Catskill Watershed.
The Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education
Resources, curriculum, professional development, readings about education for a sustainable future. Inspiring young people to think about the world, their relationship to it, and their ability to influence it in an entirely new way.
Films about garbage and other environmental issues are just a small part of the resources available on the Educating Tomorrow website, which urges NYC schools to provide children with "exemplary environmental programs, such as school-wide recycling."
The Solar One Green Energy, Arts and Education Center has brought its innovative approach to students in all five boroughs, serving more than 10,000 students since 2004. Education programs explore relationships between the natural and built environment using the urban ecology of New York City as a focal point to investigate renewable energy, sustainable design, estuary ecology, and environmental art.
The Cell Motion BioBus is a mobile science laboratory that travels to schools and community organizations around New York City, giving students the chance to explore the world around them with research-grade microscopes and make their own discoveries under the guidance of professional scientists. The BioBus is available for bookings in the five boroughs and around the tri-state area. Fill out this form to get a proposal for your school.
The Green Schools Alliance Green Cup Challenge
The Green Cup Challenge is the first and only national student-driven interschool energy challenge. With one month to see how much they can reduce their carbon footprint, participating schools save energy and money, support student greening efforts, raise awareness, and contribute to our shared sustainable future.
Dedicated to introducing children to the life-giving pleasures of fresh food from the farm. The Sylvia Center offers school programs to inspire young people to discover good nutrition through joyful, delicious experiences with healthful, seasonal fruits and vegetables, in the garden and in the kitchen.
Wellness in the Schools (WITS) is a grassroots organization that promotes children's environmental health, nutrition and fitness within the New York City public schools.
Healthy Schools Network New York Program
Healthy Schools Network's New York Program works to secure new laws, funding, and regulations to promote healthier school environments, including the measures for occupant health in schools under renovation, notice of pesticide use, bans on arsenic and elemental mercury, and cleaning for healthy schools.
Curriculum: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
U.S. Department of Energy provides links to more than 350 lesson plans and activities on energy efficiency and renewable energy for grades K-12.
Facing The Future provides global sustainability curriculum, professional development, teacher resources, and service learning ideas. The Catalog Cancelling Challenge is an example of a service learning project that helps students achieve academic success, while preparing them to create and maintain positive, healthy, and sustainable communities.
Curriculum: Environmental Education Curricula Library
K-12 environmental education curriculum ideas and plans that adhere to state, national, or NAAEE educational standards.
Video/Curriculum: The Story of Stuff
The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled film examining the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The animated film exposes connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world.
Green fundraising ideas from recycled giftwrap to reuseable water bottles.
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