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Environmental education is the simple process of bringing information about our environment into our everyday decision-making process, into our homes, and into our classrooms. Santa Monica is committed to offering teachers and parents the tools they need to offer exciting educational experiences for all ages. Explore the dozens of opportunities available to the Santa Monica community.
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Making the Single-Use Carryout Ban work SAMOHI Students Looking Out
Students in SAMOHI's Team Marine club have made a significant contribution to the ongoing task of making the City's plastic bag ban ordinance function. Long-term data gathering and statistics work yielded valuable information that will be integrated into outreach and education campaigns.
Read article in the Santa Monica Daily Press.
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ReDiscover
ReDiscover is a community resource that promotes creativity in early childhood and elementary education while encouraging environmental responsibility. This year has been especially fruitful with numerous visits to Will Rogers and John Muir elementary schools.
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They reuse everyday discards donated by businesses – plastic, fabric, wire, wood, metal, glass, and more – and give them new purpose as hands-on learning materials. Through workshops and other opportunities, they how parents, educators and children how to reuse unwanted products into hands-on learning tools that are challenging, thought-provoking, inexpensive, and friendly to our environment. Learn more, visit www.reDiscoverCenter.org.
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Key to the Sea
Attention K-5 Teachers! Take your students to the beach, and so much more, with the Key to the Sea Program. Key to the Sea includes professional development opportunities for teachers, interdisciplinary standards-aligned classroom curricula and supplies, and a hands-on field trip to the beach for you and your students. The program focuses upon watershed stewardship, pollution prevention, and the sandy beach habitat. |
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Get involved today – go online or call 310.451.1500 x147. Partnering field trip sites are Santa Monica Pier Aquarium, Roundhouse Aquarium in Manhattan Beach, SEA Lab in Redondo Beach, and Cabrillo Marine Aquarium in San Pedro. Bus transportation funding is available for Title I schools on first-come first-serve basis; please contact us for details.
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Guided Learning Opportunities at the Santa Monica Pier
Parents and teachers - take advantage of a wide range of award-winning lesson plans built around the dynamic activities available at the Santa Monica Pier. These curricula for students from K thru 12 cover everything from history to science to health to career-building and more. Check it out!
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The Library Goes Sustainable All Over!
Whether you are a professional or student researcher, or just a parent trying to get through another science project for your child, the Library's Sustainable Santa Monica Collection is a powerful resource right at your finger tips. The Library itself is a phenomenal green story. |
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