The mission of the Melinda Gray Ardia Environmental Foundation is to support educators in developing environmental curricula that integrate field activities and classroom teaching and that incorporate basic ecological principles and problem solving.

The Foundation invites K-12 teachers to apply for grants up to $1,500 to develop or implement environmental curricula that integrate hands-on ecology exercises into the classroom. Proposals most likely to receive funding will include one or more of the following elements:

• students address an important local or global problem
• students design and conduct experiments or research projects in order to learn how to do science, while at the same time learning important content
• lessons integrate classroom learning and field learning

A one-page "pre-proposal" is due by September 20, 2010. A subset of these proposals will be selected to submit a full proposal. You should only submit a full proposal if you are invited to do so. The deadline for REQUESTED full proposals is September 25, 2010.

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