Vermont Energy Education Program Incorporated

THE VERMONT ENERGY EDUCATION PROGRAM (VEEP) AND THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ENERGY EDUCATION PROJECT (NHEEP) WILL TRAIN AND SUPPORT AT LEAST 50 TEACHERS FROM AT LEAST 40 SCHOOLS IN VERMONT AND NEW HAMSHIRE TO DELIVER CURRICULUM UNITS WITH AN ENVIRONMENTAL FOCUS FOR APPROXIMATELY 1000 STUDENTS. THROUGH CASTLETON UNIVERSITY, CASTLETON, VT, VEEP AND NHEEP WILL OFFER GRADUATE LEVEL COURSES FOR TEACHERS ON HOW TO ADD STUDENT-CENTERED COMMUNITY-BASED ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP PROJECTS TO THEIR TEACHING TOOLKIT. PARTICIPATING TEACHERS WILL ALSO LEARN HOW TO DEVELOP STRATEGIES THAT BUILD STUDENTS' CRITICAL THINKING, PROBLEM SOLVING AND DECISION MAKING, GROUNDED IN NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS AND COMMON CORE MATH, LITERACY AND SOCIAL STUDIES STANDARDS. IN TURN STUDENTS WILL IMPLEMENT COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP PROJECTS THAT SUPPORT CAREER DEVELOPMENT IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND STEM (SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, MATH) FIELDS THAT FOCUS ON IMPROVING AIR QUALITY AND REVITALIZING LAND AND PREVENTING CONTAMIN

VEEP PROJECT EDUCATES K-12 STUDENTS AND TEACHERS THROUGHOUT VERMONT ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND CLIMATE SCIENCE. THE GOALS OF THE PROJECT ARE TO INCREA