This project provides funding to explora science center and children's museum of albuquerque to implement its project, which will design, demonstrate, and disseminate environmental education…

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) provides $133,334 to the Explora Science Center & Children's Museum of Albuquerque. The funding will support a two-year project to design, demonstrate, and disseminate environmental education practices, methods, and techniques focused on increasing environmental literacy and encouraging pro-environmental behaviors in the South Valley of Albuquerque, Moriarty, and the Village of Los Ranchos in New Mexico. Key activities include facilitating two teacher professional development workshops, conducting six drop-in environmental education events at local farmers markets, implementing a workshop series with five schools that includes six workshops and a field trip per school, and providing subawards to local organizations to assist with curriculum development and community engagement.

This project provides funding to explora science center and children's museum of albuquerque 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 the south valley of albuquerque, moriarty, and the village of LOS ranchos, within new mexico. Explora science center and children's museum of albuquerque will increase knowledge around water filtration, the role of pollinators in the environment, and soil health. The recipient will do this by conducting drop-in environmental education events at local growers markets, implementing an education program with five schools that includes a field trip and two speaker visits, and through a teacher workshop.activities:this project will increase public awareness and knowledge about environmental issues south valley of albuquerque, moriarty, and the village of LOS ranchos, within new mexico. This project will provide students, teachers and families the skills necessary to make informed decisions and to take responsible actions. Activities to be performed during this project period include: increasing knowledge about plants, soil, pollinators and water filtration through facilitating two teacher professional development workshops, conducting six drop-in environmental education events at local growers markets, and by implementing a workshop series with five schools that includes six workshops and a field trip per school.subrecipient:explora science center and children's museum will provide a subaward to friends of the valle DE ORO national wildlife refuge to work directly with program participants on developing outdoor spaces that foster environmental sustainability and stewardship. The recipient will provide a subaward to kids cook to help with programs on the connection of food and environmental sustainability and stewardship. The recipient will provide subawards to LA familia grower's market, railyards market, and village of LOS ranchos grower's market to provide community sites for family workshops. The recipient will provide a subaward to RIO grande community farm to host field trips from schools to model stewardship in farming. The recipient will provide subawards to village of LOS ranchos, master gardener association, new mexico acequia association, new mexico beekeepers association, new mexico fungi association, mustard seed, and three recipients not yet selected to help develop curriculum and to provide guest visitors in participating classrooms to share how their work connects to environmental stewardship.outcomes:IT is anticipated that this project will result in the following deliverables: two teacher professional development workshops facilitated, six drop-in environmental education events conducted, 30 workshops conducted with five schools, and a summative evaluation of the project finalized. Expected outcomes of the project include: increased knowledge of soil health and water quality by teachers, students and families; more teachers equipped to use the outdoors to support educational outcomes for students; and increased educational outcomes for students through increased access to nature. The intended beneficiaries include residents of the south valley of albuquerque, moriarty, and the village of LOS ranchos, within new mexico.