Office of Environmental Education
All of North Carolina's EE Resources in One Place!
About the Office of Environmental Education

The Office of Environmental Education supports and promotes quality environmental education throughout North Carolina. This is accomplished through several initiatives including:

  • Photo of barred owlServing as a clearinghouse for EE materials, information and workshops. These resources are shared through the Office’s Web site, online monthly newsletter and the NC-EE Listserv.
  • Informing K-12 teachers, college professors and pre-service teachers about EE opportunities for their students as well as for their own professional development. The Office produces an educator’s guide, coordinates a week-long summer institute for teachers and demonstrates to educators how EE can be used to integrate curriculum and meet the objectives of the NC Standard Course of Study.
  • Managing the NC Environmental Education Certification Program. This program requires participants to complete EE workshops, participate in outdoor EE experiences, demonstrate teaching skills and design and implement a community project. Participants gain their certification after 200 hours of training.
  • Designating, supporting and promoting more than 190 Environmental Education Centers across the state. The Office produces a guide to the EE centers and helps promote them and their events through the Web site, listserv, newsletter and the media.
  • Managing the NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources Library. The library maintains a model EE collection that can be circulated to the public. It also hosts EE workshops and provides bibliographies of EE materials.
  • Disseminating EE materials to the adult public. This includes the Discover Your Ecological Address initiative that includes brochures about one’s ecological address, the Discover NC’s River Basins booklet, and informational pamphlets for each of the 17 basins in the state. Adults are also reminded of the connection between the environment, recreation and health through the basin publications and made aware of environmental issues surrounding consumer choices on the “Informed Consumer” section of the Web site.
  • Collaborating with other DENR Divisions as well as outside agencies to create quality environmental education materials and workshops.

Photo by Eli Strull
Courtesy of the WNC Nature Center

 

What Is EE?
Find out what Environmental Education is and why it is so important!

 

EE Professional Links
Learn more about other professional environmental education organizations.

 

EE Advisory Council
Meet the members of the Office of EE's Advisory Council and learn about what they do.

 

EE Garden
Learn more about our garden and how you can create wildlife habitat of your own.

Environmental Education Plan
As a guardian of the North Carolina Environmental Education Plan, the Office looks to that plan's fourteen objectives to guide its efforts.

 

Department of Environment and Natural Resources
The Office of EE is part of NC's Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Learn more about DENR here.

Contact Information

Office of Environmental Education
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Mailing Address: 1609 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1609
Location: 512 North Salisbury Street, Raleigh, NC 27604
Phone: (919) 733-0711
Fax: (919) 733-1616
http://www.eenorthcarolina.org

 

The Office of Environmental Education is an agency of the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, William G. Ross Jr. Secretary; Michael F. Easley, Governor.
 

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