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Adapting Environmental Education Materials (M0059)
Peace Corps Volunteers and others who conduct environmental education activities in schools, environmental education centers, parks, and communities are faced with a dilemma. On one hand, environmental issues need to be addressed through education, but locally developed materials either do not exist or are of low quality. On the other hand, environmental educators often have a variety of materials available to them but were they developed in other countries or regions.
Environment
Agroforestry In-Service Training: A Training Aid for Asia & the Pacific Islands (T0016)
The Forestry/Natural Resources Sector (no longer in existence) in the Office of Training & Program Support of Peace Corps conducted an Agroforestry In-service Training Workshop in Honiara, Solomon Islands. The workshop design combined both technical presentations with appropriate "hands-on" experiential learning sessions.
Environment
Classroom Management Idea Book (M0088)
This book was written in response to feedback from Volunteer teachers. They report that managing a classroom in a new cultural environment is a primary challenge. Many feel that the time spent dealing with classroom management issues detracts from the time spent actually teaching content. Sensitive and complicated questions, such as how to teach in a school that condones corporal punishment, surfaced frequently.
Education
Community-Based Solid Waste Management Training Facilitator's Guide (T0086)
On a global scale urban environmental management and environmental health issues increase alarmingly and at compelling rates. The solution to urban environmental management issues requires enhancing and strengthening bonds among health and environment workers, citizens, and government policy makers and implementers.
Environment
Community Content Based Instruction (CCBI) (T0112)
This manual is a comprehensive reference on community content-based instruction (CCBI). It provides information on the history and development of CCBI as an education developmental approach related to corresponding approaches to development.
Education
Community Data-Driven Decision Making (M0108)
Community Data-Driven Decision Making
Education
Environmental Activities for Youth Clubs and Camps (M0126)

This manual is intended to serve as a sourcebook for Volunteers and others to draw upon when implementing educational programs. The activities here are primarily organized according to subject matter, such as soil, water, trees, nature awareness, and ecology, with additional activities included under Service Learning Activities and Games.

Environment
Environmental Education in Schools: Creating a Program that Works (M0044)
The Peace Corps, in recognizing the importance of environmental education and the necessity of providing comprehensive training and support, has taken the initiative to sponsor sound and effective environmental education programming around the world. Through workshops, materials development, and collaborative efforts with other agencies and organizations in the U.S. and abroad, Peace Corps is working to make environmental education an integral part of all of its programs-from small business to agriculture to health to forestry.
Environment
Environmental Education in the Community (M0075)

For years, Peace Corps Volunteers have assisted communities to create and engage in a broad range of environmental education activities. Although the content and setting of each of these activities is different, the educational goal is the same: to help communities appreciate, protect, and sustain their natural surroundings.

Environment
ESP Teaching English for Specific Purposes (M0031)
This Manual is a guide to the development of a program of instruction in English for Specific Purposes (ESP). Step-by-step procedures are outlined for assessing student needs, setting achievable goals, designing a program, and selecting - appropriate materials and activities for the classroom.
Education
Forestry Training Manual: Inter-American Region (T0041)
The general purpose this training program is to prepare new in-country Peace Corps Forestry Volunteers who have lived in-country for 10 weeks and have had cultural training, language training and have experienced some forestry technical training (i.e., local species identification) and give them 5 weeks of intensive training in forest technology "hands on".
Environment
Hands-On Activities: A Literacy, Math, and Science Resource Manual (M0106)

This book is a resource for Peace Corps Volunteers, teachers, community leaders, mentors, learning coaches, and others who are interested in delivering “hands-on” educational activities in classrooms and communities.

Education
Information & Communication Technologies: Integrating Digital Tools Into Your Projects (M0085)
The ICT Idea Book is one of a series of booklets produced to share specific activities you may be interested in replicating. Other titles in the series are listed below, and new titles are produced regularly. All of these ideas come from the work of Volunteers. Most of them were submitted just as they are printed—there is not additional information.
Education
Information & Communication Technology (ICT) Training of Trainers: Computer & Internet Use for Development (T0122)
This Facilitator Guide and Reference Manual is to be used when training Volunteers and others who will serve as trainers in information and communication technology (ICT) during Volunteers’ Pre-Service Training (PST) or In-Service Training (IST). It outlines the format, materials, objectives, time, sequence, and content of the training of trainers (TOT).
Education
In The Classroom: Empowering Girls (M0083)
This Idea book concentrates on activities and strategies that increase girlsÂ’ access to and participation in quality in-school education. Volunteers are perceived as role models, technical specialists, teachers, coun- selors, heroes and friends. This book shares specific ideas and frameworks for transferring that potential for positive guidance into classrooms and communities around the world.
Education
Managing Solid Waste (M0136)

This manual contains recommendations and best practices for Volunteers as they work alongside community members to develop and improve processes in response to community-identified waste management needs. The manual will be used by Volunteers and their counterparts collaborating with local governments, schools, and communities to strengthen their capacities to implement sustainable solid waste management policies and practices. This will be accomplished through prioritizing behavioral change messaging and effective implementation of the “3 Rs” (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) of Solid Waste Management.

Environment
Non-Formal Education (M0042)

This manual is intended to provide both practical skills for engaging in nonformal education and some underlying theory to help you define and develop your own approach to non-formal education (NFE).

Education
Outreach: Education About Coral Reefs (R0108)
This outreach pack includes Issue Nos. 19 and 20 on coral reefs.
Environment
Outreach: Materials on Waste and Recycling (Information for Educators and Communicators) (R0096)
This pack is the first in a series of five OUTREACH packs that explore waste and recycling. It looks at the type and scale of waste problems that exist, particularly in Third World cities and towns, and emphasizes the growing recognition of the need to develop local solutions to match local needs and opportunities.
Environment
Outreach: The Marine Environment (R0106)
This outreach pack includes Issue Nos. 49, 50, and 51.
Environment

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