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Environmental Activities for Youth Clubs and Camps

Office of Overseas Programming and Training Support (OPATS)

March 2017 Peace Corps Publication No. M0126

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Office of Overseas Programming and Training Support (OPATS)

March 2017 Peace Corps Publication No. M0126

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Environmental Activities for Youth Clubs and Camps (Peace Corps Publication No. M0126) is a compilation of activities that Peace Corps Volunteers and other youth workers can use and adapt to help kids learn about a wide range of environmental topics. The activities have been selected according to their suitability in nonformal situations and their educational value, especially in the countries where the Peace Corps is serving.

Peace Corps Environment Specialist Dave Wood within the Office of Overseas Programming and Training Support (OPATS) selected and edited the manual's activities, many of which were contributed by Peace Corps posts worldwide. OPATS program assistant Chris Lindstrom collected activities from the posts and organized them into categories, and Peace Corps intern Ellen Alderton located additional activities and helped to edit this manual. Laura Pirocanac, strategic content and design specialist, and Heather Mann, contractor, provided further editing for this publication. Contractor Alena Jarnik, with guidance from multimedia specialist Theresa Welling, provided graphic design and layout services. Other major contributors include Peace Corps Literacy Specialist Annaliza Thomas, Youth and Volunteerism Specialists Karen Scheuerer and Carl Triplehorn, Peace Corps/Panama Program Specialist Amy Stypa, Sidwell Friends School drama teacher Tim Reagan, and Peace Corps intern Akoo Donahoe.

The manual distills the creative thinking of many different sources. The following Peace Corps posts contributed activities that they have found to be successful:

? Armenia

? Benin

? Cameroon

? Costa Rica

? Dominican Republic

? Ecuador

? El Salvador

? Jamaica

? Mexico

? Nicaragua

? Paraguay

? Peru

? Romania

? The Gambia

? Togo

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The Peace Corps also gratefully acknowledges the activities contributed by or inspired by the following sources:

? 101 Nature Activities by Elizabeth Rundle and Jan Sanborn, Sanborn Western Camps ? A Community Guide to Environmental Health by Jeff Conant and Pam Fadem,

Hesperian Foundation ? Engaging Youth in the Outdoors by the Izaak Walton League of America (IWLA) ? Creek Freaks Curriculum by IWLA ? Sharing Nature With Children by Joseph Cornell ? Zoomy Zoomy by Hannah Fox, Tusitala Publishing (e-book version also available)

Finally, some activities were excerpted from complementary Peace Corps publications: ? Environmental Education in the Community (No. M0075) ? Environmental Education in Schools: Creating a Program That Works (No. M0044) ? Teaching in the Whole Garden (No. R0085) ? Intensive Vegetable Gardening for Profit and Self-Sufficiency (No. R0025)

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