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

This project provides funding to ecorise youth innovations 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 palm springs, sacramento, SAN francisco, and SAN mateo counties in california. The grantee will do this by teaching students to build environmental literacy; gain context around local environmental conditions; and learn how to use compassion and empathy to help repair damage from racist behaviors, policies, and systems. With this knowledge and awareness, students take action, identifying and designing solutions through self-led, innovative projects that engage and positively impact the broader community. Such projects could include schoolwide water-conservation efforts, school air purification installations, the creation of outdoor classrooms, and much more. Through this combination of learning and doing, students develop their stem and 21ST century skills, act as leaders and creative changemakers in their communities, and advocate for a more just and equitable california. This assistance agreement provide full federal funding in the amount of $100,000. Activities:this project will increase public awareness and knowledge about environmental issues in palm springs, sacramento, SAN francisco, and SAN mateo counties in california and provide students and teachers the skills necessary to make informed decisions and to take responsible actions. This project brings our award-winning curriculum, professional development, and support to 160 new teachers in urban and rural regions of california. This action-oriented program includes 163 sustainable intelligence (S.I.) k-12 lessons, which provide ECO-literacy across seven themes (water, waste, energy, food, air, transportation, and public spaces) in english and spanish. IT includes 40 design studio activities, which guide students through an engineering design process they can use to come up with innovative solutions to pressing problems. Also included are three introduction to environmental justice modules, one each for elementary, middle, and high school students. Together, this content helps students gain valuable science, technology, engineering, and math (stem) skills as well as environmental justice social literacy and project-based learning skills. Each S.I. Lesson includes community connections, which provide suggestions for how best to collaborate with the community on improvement projects and help students spread awareness of relevant local environmental issues. As students complete activities and audit environmental conditions in their schools and communities, they address EPA's goal 2.2 by listening to and collaborating with other impacted stakeholders and creating meaningful engagement. Lessons also provide cross-disciplinary connections, technology extensions, cultural adaptations, and correlations to national standards. In addition, our staff aligns the program to local standards and district scope and sequences.subrecipient:subawards will be in the form of 'ECO-audit microgrants,' which we award to schools to support student-led group projects. We will not know which schools will receive subawards until after the project has begun; however, we will focus our efforts on communities disproportionately impacted by environmental stressors in sacramento, SAN francisco, SAN mateo, and palm springs. Ecorise staff guides students and teachers to understand how to conduct an ECO-audit of their school campus or community and then apply for a microgrant using an established project-based rubric. Student groups work with a teacher sponsor to create a project plan with environmental goals, methods for gathering data and assessing those goals, a budget, a timeline for increasing sustainability in a certain area of the school or community, and addi