EarthEcho International is pleased to offer professional development workshops for educators and direct action workshops for students.
Most workshops are offered in different versions for different audiences. Look for these symbols that will let you know if a workshop is available for:
- Adults
- Youth
- Mixed groups of adults and youth
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You Have the Power
Want to help curb the use of fossil fuels and the process of ocean acidification? Saving energy is an answer. This workshop will walk you through the process of conducting an energy audit of your school and then creating, implementing and documenting an energy conservation plan. Get started right away, because when it comes to saving energy at school or at home, you have the power!
- Water Planet Challenge
- Adults
- Youth
- Mixed group of adults and youth
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Know Your Flow
Everything about you and your daily life requires water, from the clothes you wear, to the food you eat, to how you're powered. Get to know your flow! Learn how to conduct a water efficiency audit at your school, and discover different ways you can Reduce, Recycle and Re-think your water use.
- Water Planet Challenge
- Adults
- Youth
- Mixed group of adults and youth
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Out the Spout
Drinking where you live, even on the go, is an important way to protect water resources in parts of the world where they are threatened, and to protect yourself from potentially harmful chemicals. Worried that there might be more coming out of your spout than water? Bottled water is not the answer. In this workshop, learn why filtered tap water is always best, and how you can become part of the Anti-Bottle movement that is helping people kick their plastic water bottle habit while raising money for water projects in your own backyard.
- Water Planet Challenge
- Adults
- Youth
- Mixed group of adults and youth
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Down the Drain
Did you realize that everything you send down the drain—including things that you wash off your body or that first pass through your body—can end up back in local waterways, the ocean, and even the water supply? Discover tools you can use to investigate what is going down your drain, and to develop and implement a plan to defend your drain (and others) from toxins.
- Water Planet Challenge
- Adults
- Youth
- Mixed group of adults and youth
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The Water Planet Challenge
Nearly every environmental issue we face involves water. The Water Planet Challenge is a call-to-action that engages youth in protecting and restoring this water planet by providing tools and resources to create service-learning projects. Learn how to get started, and follow a step-by-step sequence to success using service-learning.
- Water Planet Challenge
- Adults
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Impressive Interviews
Interviews are a critical source of information for citizen journalists, and every great interview begins with great preparation. Learn methods that will ensure that you are well-prepared and practice techniques for getting the most of the interview itself. These are strategies guaranteed to yield impressive results every time.
- STREAM
- Adults
- Youth
- Mixed group of adults and youth
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STREAM: You Are a Citizen Journalist
Who can be a Citizen Journalist? YOU! In every community there is a story that needs to be told—especially about how we continue to impact our environment. Is there a river that has become a dumping ground? Are single use water bottles still the norm? Does a beach or other waterfront area need more trash containers? Is a park overrun with litter? And, most importantly, how are people, especially other youth, taking action and offering solutions to these challenges? Be the eyes and ears and voice of your community. Tell your story! Find out how in this action-packed workshop.
“...I wanted to say thanks, first, for helping to make the day of the workshop one of the best days of my summer. I feel completely changed... Mainly, though, my point was to say thanks for helping me out, it was just a day, but the interest I had in environmental sciences and journalism before was only sort of an offhand thought. Now, I feel sure that's what I'm called for...”- STREAM
- Youth
- Mixed group of adults and youth
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STREAM: Youth Citizen Journalists in Action
STREAM, STudents Reporting Environmental Action through Media leverages the latest digital technologies and the power of service-learning to give youth a voice in protecting the environment. Discover how students are bringing national attention to important stories of environmental and human impact in their own communities, and explore how you can use service-learning as a tool to support the same. Whether you are an educator, school administrator, or a community leader, you will come away with the ideas and resources to establish a youth-focused citizen journalism effort in your own community.
- STREAM
- Adults
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Everything You Do Makes a Difference
You may have heard the saying, “You can make a difference”, but the reality is that everything you do makes a difference. All of our actions have consequences. Discover the sometimes hidden ways common daily actions intersect with water, and ways you can transform these moments into opportunities to restore and protect local and global water resources.
- Adults
- Youth
- Mixed group of adults and youth
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Going Blue
They surround us, they feed us, they are filled with myths and legends, they offer unparalleled beauty, and they are in trouble: Our oceans. All the waterways that run into them—rivers, ponds, seas, and lakes across the globe—are in trouble, too. So...who cares? Kids care. Youth across the globe are responding to our water crisis by transforming their ideas and energy into action. Learn more about the pressing water issues that confront us all, how kids are answering the call to rescue our oceans and waterways by going blue, and how you (or students you teach) can do the same.
- Going Blue
- Adults
- Youth
- Mixed group of adults and youth
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What’s Your Earthecho?
How can your non-water-focused service-learning experience help improve the health of our oceans? Find out in this highly interactive session that explores sometimes surprising connections between action and oceans, and ways you can strengthen service-learning efforts so that they also preserve and protects our vital water resources. Explore techniques for introducing these connetions to students and a simple but powerful method for assessing the “earthecho” of the service-learning work you are planning or engaged in.
- Adults
