This book will give you a good picture of what a complete earth education program involves. Even if you can't set up the program yourself, you will likely be inspired by it and find it helpful in building an earth education program for your own setting and situation. 
Earthkeepers programs are underway at both resident and non-resident sites in several countries. A mysterious, unseen character known only as "E.M." permeates the Earthkeepers program. As the "keeper of the keys" E.M. is everyone's dream of the wizard of the woods, a secretive recluse who lives alone but loves to share the marvels and mysteries of the natural world with others in special ways. 
Becoming an Earthkeeper like E.M. is an important task, and each learner is rewarded after each step with a special key. These keys open real locks on boxes that contain secret meanings about the true nature of E.M. As the learners earn four keys for their keyrigs, they not only discover how life functions ecologically on the earth, they find out how they are both a part of our environmental problems and their solutions. 
Earthkeepers is a program for 10-11 year olds who would spend 2 1/2 to 3 days in a natural setting and then complete the other half of the program back at home and school.

Earthkeepers: Four Keys for Helping Young People Live in Harmony With the Earth

Science & Math

Van Matre, Steve

Nature & Ecology

Inst for Earth Education

For over twenty years the public has been led to believe that there is a serious educational response underway regarding the environmental problems of the earth. It is not true. The environmental movement has been led astray: + trivialized by mainstream education + diluted by those with other agendas + co-opted by the very agencies and industries that have contributed so much to the problems 
This book proposes another direction--an alternative that many environmental leaders and teachers around the world have already taken. It is called The Earth Education Path, and anyone can follow it in developing a genuine educational program made up of magical learning adventures. 
Earth education aims to accomplish what environmental education set out to do, but didn't: to help people improve upon their cognitive and affective relationship with the earth's natural communities and life support systems, and begin crafting lifestyles that will lessen their impact upon those places and processes on behalf of all the earth's passengers. 
If you care about the health of our troubled planet, then you should read what this internationally known educator has to say about how we lost a whole generation of teachers and leaders and what you can do to help them find their way again.

Earth Education: A New Beginning

Earth Sciences

How do you motivate a 14 year old? Steve Van Matre and his colleagues spent 10 years figuring out the answer and then piloted their result for another five. SUNSHIP III (not to be confused with Sunship Earth, the institute's pioneering program for younger students) is a completely new program, named after the third planet from the sun. This dynamic experience for 13-14 year olds is about seeing things in a new way and making personal choices for a new lifestyle. An initial 2 1/2 day "Commencement" serves as a powerful springboard for what the participants will continue working on back at home and school. SUNSHIP III features: P/C, a twin-headed character representing both our harmonious and disruptus sides; Earth Woman, an old storyteller who sets the teenagers off on a journey of exploration and discovery; Solarians, a measure of sunlight energy that must be spent for every action taken; Billy's Day, a teenager with a lot of energy-intense habits he doesn't see; and The Shadow of Death, an early morning rendezvous for the earth's endangered species.

SUNSHIP III : Perception and Choice for the Journey Ahead

Children's Books

Johnson, Bruce

Matre, Steve Van

Science, Nature & How It Works

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