NEST Liaisons
"A Wise Investment in Earth's Future"
Teachers in Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange and Los Angeles Counties are Invited to Become NEST Liaisons!
Membership is FREE!
Who are NEST Liaisons?
These teachers are the school site leaders for environmental education. They receive information about environmental resources and are invited to conferences/workshops. They share environmental education resources and opportunities with other teachers at the school site. There can be one or two liaisons per school site.
What is NEST?
The Network for Environmental Science Teaching (NEST) brings the adventure of learning through environmental education to educators K-12. In innovative ways, NEST helps educators connect environmental awareness, knowledge and critical thinking skills with excellence in science, math, language arts, reading, and social studies. Students explore and understand their world, work together for creative problem solving to protect the environment, and develop the citizenship skills that will serve them and their communities all their lives.
NEST programs have resulted in many unique instructional opportunities for students.
* Excelling in math, language arts, social studies, and science by using the environment as a basis for learning
* Planning and developing outdoor habitats, such as bird and butterfly gardens
* Adopting an endangered species and learning about and improving its habitat
* Designing school and home recycling and water conservation programs
* Using outdoor activities to enhance the understanding of children's literature
* Developing and applying critical thinking skills which lead to understanding local environmental problems
What are the benefits of being a NEST Liaison?
- NESTnews: This quarterly newsletter is sent directly to all NEST Liaisons. It has up-to-date information on environmental resources and upcoming workshops and events.
- Environmental Education Resource Center: Located at C S U San Bernardino. Liaisons can use this Center that contains the only collection of environmental curricula in Southern California.
- NEST Web Site. This is an up-to-date source of local environmental information.
- Fall Conference for Liaisons and other Workshops: Conferences offered to liaisons for free or at reduced rates to related to using the environment for teaching academic subjects.
- Email notification of special workshop and grant opportunities.
- Information on environmental expertise available from other Liaisons. Great networking opportunities.
- Environmental EXPO: Receive information on Environmental EXPO, an environmental education and activity fair held each April. NEST is the organizing sponsor of this annual Earth Day event, the largest environmental education and activity fair in California. Its web site is http://expo.csusb.edu.
Download NEST Liaison Registration Form - PDF
If you prefer having the form sent to you, write to us or send us an e-mail .
Once you've downloaded the form, print it, completely fill out all the fields, and mail the form to:
Dr Darleen Stoner Stoner - NEST Registration
Environmental Education Resource Center
CSU, San Bernardino
5500 University Parkway
San Bernardino, CA 92407-2397
You can also fax the form to (909) 537-7013
For more information: (909) 537-5681 or nest@csusb.edu
