Project WET
Project WILD
Project Food, Land and People
Project Learning Tree
Leopold Education Project
NEED Project Project Webfoot

Project WET
Project WET (Water Education for Teachers) is a nonprofit water education program and publisher for educators and young people ages 5-18. The program facilitates and promotes awareness, appreciation, knowledge, and stewardship of water resources through the dissemination of classroom-ready teaching aids and the establishment of internationally sponsored Project WET programs.

State Coordinator: Jane Eller, Kentucky Environmental Education Council
Phone: 800.882.5271
E-mail: jane.eller@ky.gov<

Project WILD
Project WILD is a wildlife-focused conservation education program for K-12 educators and their students. It is based on the premise that young people and educators have a vital interest in learning about our natural world.

State Coordinator: Laura Burford, Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources
Phone: 800-858-1549 extension 4491
E-mail: laura.burford@ky.gov

Project Food, Land & People
Project Food, Land & People promotes approaches to learning to help people better understand the interrelationships among agriculture, the environment and people of the world. Food, Land & People’s science- and social sciences-based curriculum, Resources for Learning, currently serves Pre-K to 12th grade students throughout the United States. The curriculum consists of 55 hands-on lessons, developed and tested by more than a thousand educators. The subjects range from environmental science and stewardship (“Don’t Use It All Up!”) to human populations and land use issues (“What Will the Land Support?”).

State Coordinator: Elizabeth McNulty, Kentucky Department of Agriculture
Phone: 502-564-4983 extension 282
E-mail: elizabeth.mcnulty@ky.gov

Project Learning Tree
Project Learning Tree, or PLT, is an award-winning, multi-disciplinary environmental education program for educators and students in Pre-K to 12th grade. PLT meets state and national education standards. The curriculum materials provide the tools educators need to bring the environment into the classroom and their students into the environment. Topics range from forests, wildlife and water, to community planning, waste management and energy.

State Coordinators:

Leopold Education Project
The Leopold Education Project, or LEP, is an innovative, interdisciplinary, critical thinking, conservation and environmental education curriculum based on the classic writings of the renowned conservationist, Aldo Leopold. LEP teaches the public about humanity’s ties to the natural environment in the effort to conserve and protect the earth’s natural resources.

State Coordinator: Jennifer Turner, Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources
Phone: 502-564-4496
E-mail: jenniferl.turner@ky.gov

NEED Project
The mission of the NEED (National Energy Education Development) Project is to promote an energy conscious and educated society by creating effective networks of students, educators, business, government and community leaders to design and deliver objective, multi-sided energy education programs.

Kentucky Contact: Karen Reagor, Executive Director
Phone: 859.578.0312
E-Mail: kreagor@need.org

Project Webfoot
Project Webfoot is a nonprofit wetlands education program and curriculum created by Ducks Unlimited for educators and 4th-6th grade students. Just as wetlands are a critical part of the interconnected web of life, each participant in Project Webfoot—students, teachers, parents, and volunteers—has an important role to play in this exciting program. Project Webfoot offers teachers learning materials that can be integrated with the existing school curriculum to help bring the world of wetlands to life for 4th-6th grade students. These materials encourage active participation and problem solving in an interdisciplinary approach that can be used in teaching reading, science, art, and other subjects. (Adapted from the Project Webfoot website www.projectwebfoot.org.)

E-Mail: info@projectwebfoot.org