The following organizations have noteworthy environmental education programs. If you know of any programs that are not listed, please send an email to the West Philadelphia Landscape Project's webmaster at wplp@pobox.upenn.edu
Address: Northwestern Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19118
Address: 133 South 36th Street, Suite 519
Address: Suite 1165
Telephone: (215) 569-3187
Description: The Foundation for Architecture offers a program to local schools called Architecture in Education. It is an interdisciplinary, hands-on approach to education. "A volunteer architect and university student team up with each classroom teacher. Together they develop a custom eight-week series of highly motivational, experiential lessons integrated into the teacher's existing curriculum. The built environment is immediate and personal to students' lives and affords a real life vehicle for learning." The three areas of study within this curriculum are: Perceptual (observation and awareness), Social (human/environment relations and history) and Technological (exploration of materials).
Publications: Architecture in Education: A resource of Imaginative Ideas and Tested Activities
Cost: $25 U.S.
Contacts:
Telephone; (610) 521-0662
Description: It is the largest remaining freshwater tidal wetland in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Resources available:
Historic Bartram's Garden
Telephone: (215) 729-5281
Description: Bartram's garden is the oldest botanical garden in the U.S. Here, the botanist John Bartram, housed his collection of American native trees, shrubs and flowers. The collection contains the Franklinia alatamaha which he saved from extinction and the oldest Ginkgo tree in America.
Resources available:
Center for Urban Forestry Website
Address: The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
Telephone: (215) 625-8250
Description: Philadelphia Green was founded as the community outreach program of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Meade School Environmental Teaching Garden-outdoor classroom and teaching garden was designed and built in collaboration with Temple University's Landscape Architecture Dept. and the Beach Corporation.
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Publications:
Philadelphia Water Department
Address:
Telephone: (215) 685-4908
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The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education
Telephone: (215) 482-7300
Description: "In 1965 the Schuylkill Valley Nature Center was founded. In 1988 it was renamed The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education to better reflect its organizational mission and vision. The Schuylkill Valley Nature Center was founded as the first nonprofit urban facility in the United States which taught the concepts of environmental education. The Center prides itself on innovative education programs which include outreach, environmental resource and information, teacher enrichment and curriculum development, as well as community service programs such as the Schuylkill Wildlife Rehabilitation Center."
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Address: 5125 Woodbine Ave.
Telephone: (215) 877-7203
Description: "The Urban Tree Connection has been working in the Philadelphia area with at-risk, minority students, community organizations and businesses to self-empower youth through the process of community tree inventories and community urban vacant lot nurseries."
Contacts:
Philadelphia, PA
Andorra Natural Area
Telephone: (215) 685-9285
Description: Not Available
Publications: Not Available
Center for Community Partnerships
Philadelphia, PA 19104-3246
Fax: (215)573-2799
Telephone: (215)898-5351
Description: Not Available
Publications: Not Available
The Foundation for Architecture
One Penn Center at Suburban Station
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Fax: (215) 569-4688
Pamela Carunchio-Director of Education
Susan Reel, AIA-Program Director
The John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum
Address: Scott Plaza II, Suite 104
Philadelphia, PA 19113
Philadelphi. PA 19143
The Morris Arboretum and The Center for Urban Forestry
Address: 9414 Meadowbrook Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19118
325 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106-2777
Fax: (215) 625-8288
Ms. Mindy Maslin-Tree Tenders Program
Ms. Sally McCabe-Garden Tenders Program
Environmental Jeopardy-game
Tree-mendous Feats-board game
Public Affairs Division (or Public Education Unit)
ARA Tower at Reading Center
1101 Market St. 3rd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107-2994
Fax: (215) 685-6154
Ed Grusheski-Water Works Interpretive Center Director
Fact Sheet/Brochure:
What's With Water - curriculum
The Adventures of Captain Sewer: Official Grime Fighter's Activity Book
Address: 8480 Hagy's Mill Road
Philadelphia, PA 19128-1998
Pricilla Taylor Williams
REEP (Regional Environmental Education Program) curriculum
The Urban Tree Connection
Philadelphia, PA 19131
Fax: (215) 877-7204
Skip Weiner