Resource Database

Caring for Our Watersheds" is the longest-running environmental action challenge in the Chesapeake Bay region. It offers students a unique opportunity to enhance their STEM knowledge, environmental and climate literacy, and civic action skills through the creation of solution-oriented projects aimed at watershed improvement.

Use this resource to help students understand community concerns. An inventory is inquiry driven, collects some kind of data, and leads to a list of strengths and concerns of the defined community.

Facilitators: This is a great activity to help educators think through ways to begin the Environmental Action Civics process.

Peace First’s Changemaking Manual is a five-phase guide designed to help you create a changemaking project in your community. The guide leads young people through five phases: choosing an issue or problem in your community, understanding the chosen issue, creating a plan to turn your insights into action, tools for implementation, and reflection.

This toolkit can serve as a roadmap to navigate the numerous dialogue and deliberation resources and tools that have been produced by civic engagement and science-engagement organizations. These resources can provide a helpful foundation in the development of science and technology-related dialogues, as well as program models to build on, and facilitation and implementation resources.

Across non-profit, advocacy, and youth-serving organizations, “youth voice” has become an increasingly popular topic. But what does this work look like and how do organizations interested in incorporating youth voice into their mission and scope of work do so in meaningful ways? This resource has been designed to be a collection of currently existing resources, spotlights of partners in the education and youth advocacy space, and useful definitions and terminology for this work.