This agreement provides funding to ecorise to implement its project, which will design, demonstrate, and disseminate environmental education practices, methods, and techniques that will serve to…

This agreement provides funding to ecorise to implement its project, which will design, demonstrate, and disseminate environmental education practices, methods, and techniques that will serve to increase environmental literacy and encourage behavior that will benefit the environment in oklahoma city and bryan county, OK. The recipient will do this by providing teachers with standards-aligned environmental education curricula, professional development, and year-round support from ecorise program staff and project partners; providing students lessons on environmental literacy, engineering design, and environmental justice; and facilitating student creation of environmental improvement projects to impact the community.activities:this project will increase public awareness and knowledge about environmental issues in oklahoma city and bryan county, OK and provide students and teachers the skills necessary to make informed decisions and to take responsible actions. Activities to be performed during this project period include: providing teachers with standards-aligned environmental education curricula, professional development, and year-round support from ecorise program staff and project partners; providing students lessons on environmental literacy, engineering design, and environmental justice; and facilitating student creation of environmental improvement projects to impact the community.subrecipient:subaward recipients include restore oklahoma city, OKC beautiful, oklahoma green schools, and two other partners. Subaward activities include giving school presentations on ecorise resources, assisting and collaborating on teacher workshops, providing one-on-one support to teachers, supporting teacher outreach statewide, and implementing programs such as school gardens, classroom support, nutrition education and workforce development to help ecorise implement its program in schools.outcomes:IT is anticipated that this project will result in the following deliverables: 163 sustainable intelligence k-12 lessons, 40 design studio activities, and three introduction to environmental justice modules. Expected outcomes of the project include: increased environmental literacy of students and teachers, increased interest in environmental careers by students, students inspired to be sustainable leaders in their communities, increased confidence and skills by teachers to teach environmental education, and teacher driven to make stewardship and sustainability part of the curriculum. The project will benefit students and teachers of oklahoma city and bryan county, OK.