Environmental Education in Georgia
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Travel Opportunities for Educators

Get out of the classroom and learn about cutting edge research and conservation efforts, develop professional skills and make a difference for the environment. A diverse selection of travel and learning opportunities for educators both within the U.S. and abroad is currently available...

 



   
The National Park Service's Teacher Ranger Teacher (TRT) program is an extended professional development opportunity for K-12 educators. TRTs spend most of their time assisting with park education projects, learning about park resources, and developing lesson plans to use in their classrooms and in the park with students.

   
Student- and teacher-centered environmental education in Alaska, Hawaii and the Rockies, through the Earth Explore Foundation.

   
Ecology Project International offers five programs in four vitally important conservation regions: Costa Rica (turtles), Mexico (whales), Mexico (islands), Galapagos (ecology), and Yellowstone (wildlife). The programs are scientifically based, working field studies that bring U.S. students and their teachers together with students and teachers from the project site areas.

   
SEE Turtles is a non-profit conservation project that helps teachers arrange participatory field trips to volunteer at nesting beaches for the giant leatherback turtle in Costa Rica or help with in-water turtle research studies in Baja, Mexico.

   
These two- to eight-week seminars are designed to provide U.S. and international partner administrators, teachers and students with opportunities to learn more about each others countries, educational systems, teaching methodologies, culture and society, and to initiate collaborative projects with international partner schools and communities.
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