Educators can use the real world video stories of the Eco Express website, produced by the GreenTreks Network, Inc., to help engage students on a variety of environmental topics in an inspiring way.

Each video story is accompanied by a learning pod which includes everything from curriculum alignment, inquiry-based problem solving activities, service learning projects, resources materials, community connections and more.

The initial topic areas include: watersheds and wetlands, agriculture and society, threatened, endangered and extinct species, renewable and nonrenewable resources, integrated pest management, humans and the environment, environmental health, ecosystems and their interactions and environmental laws and regulations.

Eco Express is designed to help educators implement Pennsylvania’s Environmental and Ecology Standards administered by the Department of Education.

You can help shape this beta version of the website by offering your comments and making suggestions for material to add.

Visit the Eco Express website and send comments to Brie Knight, GreenTreks, by sending email to: BKnight@GreenTreks.org .

8/29/2008