NOAA Announces New Funding For
Environmental Literacy Projects
Title: Environmental Literacy Grants for K-12 Education
NOAA's Office of Education (OED) is requesting applications for environmental
literacy projects in support of K-12 education. Funded projects will have
a duration of one and five years and will promote changes in K-12 education to
expand the amount of Earth System Science taught in the classroom and improve
student learning of that subject. Successful projects will catalyze change in
K-12 education through development of new programs and/or materials, and/or
revision of existing programs and/or materials by supporting transformative
methods that expand the use of Earth System Science in K-12 classrooms.
Projects are encouraged to further the use of Earth System Science concepts,
such as the concepts articulated in the Ocean Literacy Essential Principles and
Fundamental Concepts (http://www.coexploration.org/oceanliteracy/documents/OceanLitConcepts_10.11.05.pdf).
Projects might focus on the education of pre-service teachers or the
professional development for inservice teachers where it supports the creation
and retention of highly qualified teachers, e.g. creation of an Earth System
Science certification program; and/or the development of new, or modification
of existing K-12 curricula and related instructional materials. Projects
focusing on pre-service education of teachers should involve colleges of
education or other entities that provide pre-service teacher education.
Projects focusing on inservice teacher professional development should involve
state departments of education and/or school districts as appropriate. Projects
focusing on the development of new, or modification of existing, curricula and
related instructional materials should be able to demonstrate how they will
address the relevant state standards, support state or national assessments,
and be disseminated at the state or multi-state level. Note: projects that
focus on free-choice learning or development of new data visualizations and
platforms will not be considered for funding through this announcement.
All projects shall employ the relevant strategies articulated in the NOAA
Education Plan (http://www.oesd.noaa.gov/NOAA_Ed_Plan.pdf).
All projects should be implemented at a state or multi-state level and
have evaluations that fully assess the strengths and weaknesses of the proposed
project. It is anticipated that final recommendations for funding under
this announcement will be made by June 30, 2007, and that projects funded under
this announcement will have a start date no earlier than September 15, 2007.
Pre-proposals are REQUIRED and are due
Wednesday, November 29, 2006.
Full proposals are due Wednesday, March 21, 2007.
Visit http://www.oesd.noaa.gov/funding_opps.html
for the full announcement and additional information.
This funding opportunity's ID on grants.gov is SEC-OED-2007-2000863.
**Please do not respond to this email with
inquiries.**
Gwen Pollock, Science
Mathematics and Science Partnerships Program
Division of Curriculum and Instruction (C-215)
Illinois
State Board of Education
100 North First
Street
Springfield, IL 62777
217/557-7323 (phone)
217/782-7937 (fax)
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