Community-Based Learning

Resources

 

Meaningful Learning

Community-based Learning, Northwest Regional Education Laboratory www.nwrel.org/scpd/sirs/10/t008.html

Constructivist Classrooms, Concept to Classroom  www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/constructivism

The Entrepreneurial Mindset

Environment-based Education, NEETF www.neefusa.org/pubs/NEETF8400.pdf

Interdisciplinary Learning, Concept to Classroom www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/interdisciplinary

Project-based Learning, Buck Institute for Education  www.bie.org/index.php/site/PBL/overview_pbl

Project-based Learning, George Lucas Education Foundation (GLEF)www.edutopia.org/projectbasedlearning

Service Learning, The Six Steps of Earth Force www.earthforce.org/content/article/detail/553

Systems Thinking in Schools, Waters Foundation www.watersfoundation.org

Systems Thinking Webcast, Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement www.centerforcsri.org/webcasts/webcast3/webcast3.html (w/ Systems Thinking Bibliography)

Environmental and Sustainability Education Organizations

 

Center for Ecoliteracy www.ecoliteracy.org

Center for Place-Based Education, ww.anei.org/pages/89_cpbe.cfm

Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education www.sustainabilityed.org

Creative Learning Exchange www.clexchange.org

Education for Sustainable Development Toolkit www.esdtoolkit.org/about.htm

Environmental Education and Training Partnership www.eetap.org

Envisioning Tomorrow, Riveredge Nature Center www.riveredgenaturecenter.org/index.htm?programs/outreach

Facing the Future www.facingthefuture.org

Sustainability Education Handbook www.urbanoptions.org/SustainEdHandbook/Introduction.htm

Sustainable Schools Project www.sustainableschoolsproject.org/index.html

UK Sustainable Schools Framework www.teachernet.gov.uk/sustainableschools/framework

United Nations, Decade of Education for Sustainable Development

Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education www.uwsp.edu/cnr/wcee

Wisconsin Green and Healthy Schools Program www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/greenschools/

Wisconsin School Forest Program www.uwsp.edu/cnr/leaf/SF.htm 

Community Sustainability

Alliance for Sustainability www.allianceforsustainability.org

Center for Land Use Education (CLUE) www.uwsp.edu/cnr/landcenter

GEM Rural Leadership and Community Development Program www.uwsp.edu/cnr/gem/RuralLeadership.htm

The Green Institute “Community Revitalization through Sustainable Enterprise” www.greeninstitute.org

Institute for Local Self-Reliance www.ilsr.org

Livable City (Austin, TX) www.liveablecity.org

Redefining Progress www.rprogress.org

Smart Planning and Growth Coalition (Massachusetts) www.gotcommunity.org

Sustainable Measures www.sustainablemeasures.com

Sustainable Forestry Issues

Dovetail Partners - Reports, Commentaries, and Newsletters www.dovetailinc.org/Publications.html

Temperate Forest Foundation - Eco-Links www.forestinfo.org/Products/eco-links

WDNR Trends and Issues Survey http://dnr.wi.gov/org/land/forestry/assessment/survey

Wisconsin Forest Resources Education Alliance - Issues in Sustainable Forestry Series www.wfrea.org/forminute.html

Community Resources

Wisconsin DNR Foresters by County
www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/land/forestry/ftax/COUNTY.HTM

County Foresters
www.wisconsincountyforests.com/wcfa-adm.htm

Consulting Foresters
www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/land/forestry/Private/Assist/coopfor.htm

US Forest Service – Chequamegon – Nicolet National Forest
www.fs.fed.us/r9/cnnf/

UW-Extension Foresters
http://forest.wisc.edu/extension/contacts.htm

Wisconsin Wood Using Industry Database www.woodindustry.forest.wisc.edu/

County Extension Agents
www.uwex.edu/ces/cty

County Land Conservation Departments
www.wlwca.org/Pages/LCDWeb.html 

Natural Resources Conservation Service – Wisconsin Office
www.wi.nrcs.usda.gov/ 

Resource Conservation & Development (RC&D) Program
www.wi.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/rcd.html

DNR Water Resources
www.dnr.state.wi.us/environmentprotect/water.html

Wisconsin DNR Wildlife
www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/land/wildlife/

US Fish & Wildlife Service
http://midwest.fws.gov/WisconsinPartners/       

Conservation Organizations www.eco-usa.net/orgs/wi.shtml

Forest History Association of Wisconsin http://chipsandsawdust.com/

Wisconsin History Reader www.library.wisc.edu/etext/WIReader/Contents.html

Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory Maps http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/EcoNatRes/subcollections/WILandInvAbout.shtml

 

 

 

 



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