Center for Ecoliteracy (CEL)
Highlighted Resources

Mission: "The Center for Ecoliteracy is dedicated to education for sustainable living."

Teachers, school administrators, environmental educators, and planners and other city officials involved in youth environmental education should bookmark the Center for Ecoliteracy's accessible web site. It has many detailed resources that provide well-rounded solutions to address environmental, educational, and children's health issues all at once. A few of them are highlighted below; for a more complete picture, visit CEL's web site.

Rethinking School Lunch Guide

The Rethinking School Lunch guide is a multifaceted guide for organizing a school lunch program that is healthier and cultivates ecological knowledge and consciousness in students. Available for free download, the guide includes advice from experts and practitioners, "LiFE" (Linking Food and the Environment) lessons, a financial calculator, a farm-to-school guide, and much more. The only thing you won't find in this comprehensive guide is a shortage of information.

The concepts and principles behind the guide are highlighted in the CEL's online visual guide, Linking Food, Culture, Health, and the Environment.

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Getting Started: A Guide for Creating School Gardens as Outdoor Classrooms

Getting Started is for teachers and school administrators interested in planting a garden at their school. It offers guidelines on how to prepare a site, maintain a garden, and connect the garden to classroom learning.

The publication was created by the CEL, which is located in Berkeley, CA, and Life Lab Science Program. It is available for free to schools nationwide. (In California, it is also available for free to any teacher as part of a larger school garden packet, available through the "Garden in Every School" program of the California Dept. of Education.)

* Visit the link above to request a copy of this valuable resource.