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Beetles
Infusing outdoor science programs with research-based approaches and tools to improve science teaching and learning. Our professional learning resources are designed for program leaders to use with field instructors. They provide experiences and rationale about outdoor science instruction designed to inspire instructors to improve their teaching. Our student activities inspire students’ wonder and curiosity about the natural world, support their innate tendencies for exploration and guide them to make explanations based on evidence.
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Environmental Education Association of Oregon
Our mission is to cultivate environmental literacy and engagement among diverse community leaders. With the vision that Oregon communities are compassionately working together to create equitable connections to and expressions of the local and global environments.
Our Vision: Oregon communities compassionately working together to create equitable connections to and expressions of the local and global environments. |
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Love and Logic Institute
Love and Logic is a research-driven, whole-child philosophy founded in 1977 by Jim Fay and Foster W. Cline, M.D. It is the approach of choice among leading educators, parents, and other professionals worldwide.
The Love and Logic Institute is dedicated to making parenting and teaching fun and rewarding, instead of stressful and chaotic. We provide practical tools and techniques that help adults achieve respectful, healthy relationships with their children. All of our work is based on a psychologically sound parenting and teaching philosophy called Love and Logic®. |
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North American Association for Environmental Education
For more than four decades, NAAEE has served as the professional association, champion, and backbone organization for the field of environmental education, working with a diverse group of educators in the United States, Canada, and Mexico to advance environmental education. Our audiences include those who reach others, including teachers and naturalists, researchers, conservationists, outdoor educators, scientists and science educators, resource and environmental managers, environmentalists, foundations and corporations, and all who care about how education and engagement can help create a more environmentally informed, committed, and active citizenry.
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Portland Water Bureau
Portland’s high quality water comes primarily from the Bull Run Watershed, an unfiltered surface water supply with rainfall that generates a highly reliable source for the region with two reservoirs and a capacity of more than 200 million gallons per day. In addition, the bureau is fortunate to have a robust secondary source with the Columbia South Shore Well Field, which is another high quality source of water that serves to augment supply during summer months, allows the bureau to manage turbidity issues in the Bull Run watershed, and can meet the daily demand of the City on its own when necessary. The bureau is also recognized as a national leader in pioneering its model of asset management in the water utility industry. In addition, the bureau has a robust program that is very proactive in the protection of the natural environment that provides the region’s water, as well as mitigating the downstream impacts on fish habitat.
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Promise of Place
Place-based education (PBE) immerses students in local heritage, cultures, landscapes, opportunities and experiences, using these as a foundation for the study of language arts, mathematics, social studies, science and other subjects across the curriculum. PBE emphasizes learning through participation in service projects for the local school and/or community.
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Sightline Institute
Sightline equips the Northwest’s citizens and decision-makers with the policy research and practical tools they need to advance long-term solutions to our region’s most significant challenges. Our work includes in-depth research, commentary, and analysis, delivered online, by email, and in-person to Northwest policy champions, emerging leaders, and a range of community partners. We believe true sustainability exists at the intersection of environmental health and social justice.
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The Trust for Public Land
The Trust for Public Land works to protect the places people care about and to create close-to-home parks—particularly in and near cities, where 80 percent of Americans live. Our goal is to ensure that every child has easy access to a safe place to play in nature. We also conserve working farms, ranches, and forests; lands of historical and cultural importance; rivers, streams, coasts, and watersheds; and other special places where people can experience nature close at hand.
At the Trust for Public Land, we don't just save land—we save land for people to enjoy, from neighborhood parks to national parks. We depend on the ongoing support of individuals to make sure our work carries on well into the future. Our mission is to create parks and protect land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come. Every park, playground, and public space we create is an open invitation to explore, wonder, discover, and play. We're proud to say that we've been connecting communities to the outdoors—and to each other—since 1972. Today, millions of Americans live within a 10-minute walk of a park or natural area we helped create, and countless more visit every year. |
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Ultimate Camp Resource
Every year, we try to make our own camps better by adding activities, reconsidering staff training methods, reviewing program designs, and trying to find ways to make camp even more fun than the year before. Each year, we try to make Ultimate Camp Resource better than the year before, too! Every year, we add lots more camp activity videos so you can see firsthand how camp games are played, camp songs are sung (or shouted), and how to perform some of our favorite camp skits. Do you love camp like we do? Do you want to make a difference in the camp world? Let us know if you would like help edit submitted activities, write a blog on a particular area of expertise, or otherwise be engaged in the Ultimate Camp Resource network.
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