Valleys Audubon Society, Missoula, Montana. This project educates fourth and fifth grade teachers to develop an international sister school program with students and teachers in Oaxaca City, Mexico. Teachers and students participate in a cross-cultural study of neotropical migratory birds that breed in Montana and migrate to Oaxaca. The Vanguard School's science department and Junior Achievement Club, in cooperation with Valley Forge National Park and the NOVA Society of Lockheed Martin Corporation, design, plant, and monitor a campus butterfly garden. Under this project, conferences are held for educators at the kindergarten through grade 12 levels in North Dakota, especially those educators in home school and Native American Programs.
Sessions address education reform and the development of community action projects.
This project facilitates the development and updating of natural resource inventories in Westchester County communities. The Ecology Center of Ann Arbor provides a summer program for young people through which participants learn to repair used bicycles. The goal of this grant is to provide in-service training to secondary, post secondary, and industry instructors who then train automotive shop owners and technicians. The group goes into the wetlands in the flood plain of the Big Sioux River next to the school, where they gather data, take samples and record observations. The Nez Perce Tribal Foundation, in partnership with the educational program of the Idaho Division of Environmental Quality, the University of Idaho, and high school teachers of the reservation, provides an environmental education curriculum that uses the Nez Perce Tribe's wildlife and fish books as a foundation.