Environmental Education

We went kayaking on the Rock River with teachers learning about their local watershed.“How do we take care of our water and our soil? All of those things you can take back into the classroom, no matter what age you work with.”How they’ll bring these water education lessons from the river back to the classroom.

Illinois K-12 teachers are invited to paddle a kayak and learn about local watersheds during a free upcoming workshop. Peter Medlin has more…

Northern Illinois University recently unveiled a nearly 100-page Sustainability & Climate Action Plan. It outlines how -- from transportation to food services -- the university said it will commit to sustainability. WNIJ’s Peter Medlin has the details and how some students are already leading the way.

“Even when the resources were available to teachers, it was still a lot of that burden was still put on them,” said co-founder Ylanda Wilhite.

Student-led environmental education projects are helping them take the lead on issues like climate change

Illinois has had frameworks for environmental literacy since 1995. But the group realized they didn’t even have a solid definition for what environmental literacy even is until now.