This $143,130 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) provides funding to the University of Delaware to implement a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) project. The project aims to design, demonstrate, and disseminate environmental education practices, methods, and techniques to increase environmental literacy and promote pro-environmental behaviors in six Title I middle and high schools in Wilmington, Dover, and Georgetown, Delaware.
Key activities include: 1) teaching approximately 360 students in the selected schools about environmental sustainability concepts, 2) enabling students to research, propose, and implement school-based environmental projects, and 3) forming a statewide teacher advisory committee to integrate environmental concepts and assessment tools into existing academic structures. The project will also provide $25,000 in subawards to the six participating schools and a $4,000 subaward to coordinate teacher training workshops. Anticipated outcomes include increased student awareness of environmental science, six student-led environmental protection projects, updated instructional modules, and training for 12-15 teachers with an additional 20-25 teachers trained in environmental education.
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