He hired more scientists, established an environmental curriculum for elementary schools and recruited Ted Turner to finance a film series, "The World of Audubon," which used narrators like Robert Redford.
Ms. Fabrykiewicz, a 73-year-old New London native who tagged along with Mr. Mehrhoff's botany team, said she was planning to apply what she learned when she writes an environmental curriculum for the New London schools, and on the nature walks she is going to start leading this summer at Ocean Beach Park.
Each year, 100,000 kindergarten through twelfth-grade kids participate in its hands-on, science-based environmental curriculum.
The four-year curricular component will consist of 22 lessons of approximately 50 minutes each, including eight lessons that will be presented as part of the environmental sciences curriculum, six as part of the social sciences curriculum, two as part of the physical education curriculum, one in the mathematics curriculum, and five that will be presented as student tutorials.
AIR's Guatemalan team have trained thousands of families; written environmental school curriculum; and planted over 4.5 million trees by hand on steep mountain slopes.
They are helping COEP staff write and field-test an integrated environmental health curriculum on diabetes for middle school students.
The study was designed to intervene at the individual (children, teachers, and parents) and environmental (school curriculum and built environment of the preschool class) levels.
The high school's collaboration with Superfund investigators has resulted in the creation of the environmental health curriculum, which has been adopted by the high school as an elective.
Because of the constraints on teaching science, an effective strategy for designing a K 12 environmental health curriculum is to make it kill several birds with one stone that is, to structure it so that it challenges students not only in environmental science and health, but also in reading, mathematics, social studies, and other standard subjects.
The many health care practitioners and clinicians in attendance expressed great interest in CEHN's pediatric training manual (CEHN 1999), which is being updated for publication in 2013 and will continue to serve as a core resource for health care providers and pediatric environmental health curriculum development.
"The trick is making [an environmental health] curriculum fit the requirements and making it easy on the teachers so that it's something they can implement in the classroom very quickly," says Sarah Weppner, environmental health education and assessment program director at the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare.
