Directions:

1. Directions: Please fill in the information on the next slide. There will be 18 slides to follow, each one representing one of the 18 criteria set forth in the C.E.E.C Environmental School Awards application. Please use each slide to explain or show through pictures, student work, etc how your school addressed that criteria during this school year. You are welcome to be as creative as you’d like with this powerpoint. Use font, backgrounds, pictures, animation, etc to “jazz up” your presentation. We would love to see students take ownership in this application as well. Once your powerpoint is complete, please submit it on CD to Curt Witthoff via the pony along with your other paperwork by April 4, 2008. If you have further questions contact Curt at witthocu@collier.k12.fl.us . This slide can be deleted prior to turning in your powerpoint.

2. Title Page School Name: Name of teacher completing application: Principals Name: School Address: City: Telephone: # of students: # of teachers: # of business partners:

3. Criteria 1 Use of outside speakers and programs from CEEC or other sources on environmental topics. Examples: Big Cypress Basin, Conservancy, Big Cypress National Preserve, Everglades National Park, Rookery Bay, National Wildlife Federation, etc. Please list speakers and programs you may have used and what each specifically dealt with.

4. Criteria 2 Is Environmental Education an interdisciplinary subject at your school? Please list the numbers of teachers by grade levels involved and what subject areas and content are covered. Do you use any unique methods or subject integration from which other teachers might benefit?

5. Criteria 3 Recycle, reduce and reuse (3Rs) program (e.g. luncheon trays, milk or juice cartons). What materials in your school are in a 3Rs program? Does it involve the whole school or just a portion? How did your school motivate the students and other staff members?

6. Criteria 4 Support an environmental club or club with an environmental component (e.g. Boy Scouts, 4-H, Green Team). What is the club (or clubs) and what activities has it engaged in?

7. Criteria 5 Use of school grounds as an environmental site (e.g. outdoor classrooms, nature trail, gardening for wildlife). Please be specific in sharing how your students are involved in utilizing the school grounds as an environmental study area.

8. Criteria 6 Media resources of environmental topics available in library. How have you utilized the media center in a study of the environment? Are there any books, internet sites, or other media that you use and would highly recommend for use at other schools?

9. Criteria 7 Describe any special events your school participates in and identify their relationship to environmental education (e.g. Earth Day, Arbor Day, Envirothon, Super Science Saturday, Junior Solar Spring, Water Festivals, etc.).

10. Criteria 8 Describe school-wide efforts in water conservation (e.g. flow restrictors, low volume systems, drip irrigation). Please share your school's efforts and how they were instituted.

11. Criteria 9 Describe your school-wide efforts in water pollution prevention (e.g. water quality testing, appropriate disposal of pollutants, responsible use of fertilizers and pesticides, ground run-off, etc.).

12. Criteria 10 Does your school use any alternative water sources including non-potable water for irrigation? List them.

13. Criteria 11 Xeriscaped campus or native plant grounds. What have you xeriscaped? What areas have been planted (or left) with native plants of South Florida? How was this funded? Do you have a plan for your xeriscaped/native area to share? Is it a certified site? If yes, by whom? Examples: Florida Yards and Neighbors, Schoolyard Habitats (NWF), Schoolyard Wildlife (FLFWCC).

14. Criteria 12 Field trip(s) to natural sites beyond campus such as C.R.E.W., Tiger-tail Beach, Rookery Bay, Big Cypress National Preserve, Everglades National Park, Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, Lake Trafford, etc. What sites have you visited with your students that have been successfully tied with your studies? Can you recommend the site and an approach to your studies that other teachers at your grade level might employ?

15. Criteria 13 Administrative support and involvement in environmental education (e.g. develop partners in education, substitutes provided for teachers to attend environmental workshops). List other examples of partnerships your school has developed.

16. Criteria 14 Service project of environmental nature for the community. What type of environmental community service projects have you and your students engaged in? Bay Days, Coastal Clean-up, Adopt a Road or Canal, special projects for a government or private agency, etc.

17. Criteria 15 In-service program on environmental education topic open to the entire faculty. Please be specific. What type of in-service is it? How much of the staff participated? Was it successful and what impact did it have on your staff (e.g. changes in teaching approaches for new activities added in environmental studies)?

18. Criteria 16 Participated in an art or writing contest about the environment or science fair.

19. Criteria 17 Developed home or school conservation plans that the teachers can share with their students showing how utility bills are read and how to conserve at home.

20. Criteria 18 If you receive an award, how will your school benefit as it relates to environmental education and/or conservation?

21. In addition to required criteria information on extra projects is encouraged.