Windy City
Windy City Earth Force is a program of The Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois, concentrated in the Calumet Region in southern Chicago and northwestern Indiana.
Seeking New Educators!
Windy City Earth Force is looking for educators who are excited about facilitating their students' learning about the environment while, at the same time, teaching them the value of serving their communities and becoming active citizens. Formal educators such as teachers and informal educators such as youth group leaders in the Lake Calumet region of Illinois and Indiana are eligible to participate.
International News
The Field Museum has recently begun a new international environmental education initiative, bringing Earth Force GREEN to Bolivia for the first time! The Field Museum is working with local partners to implement the Cobija Environmental Education Program in the department of Pando's capital city. Using the Spanish curriculum, Protegiendo Nuestras Cuencas Hidrológicas (PNCH), teachers and students participate in water quality monitoring and local civic action projects in the world's largest watershed, the Amazon.
Pando, in northern Bolivia, has both high biological diversity and high threats to that biodiversity. Rapidly expanding logging and ranching activities seriously threaten Pando's biological riches and create challenging components to kids' conservation action projects.
As the Field Museum moves forward in this pilot program, the PNCH curriculum is continuously adapted for cultural relevance and local realities, and new education materials are presently being developed to address the need for locally relevant education tools.
Cotnact Us
Kirk Anne Taylor
The Field Museum - Environmental and Conservation Programs
1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605
Phone (312) 665-7442
Fax (312) 665-7433
Email Windycity@earthforce.org
Seeking New Educators!
Windy City Earth Force is looking for educators who are excited about facilitating their students' learning about the environment while, at the same time, teaching them the value of serving their communities and becoming active citizens. Formal educators such as teachers and informal educators such as youth group leaders in the Lake Calumet region of Illinois and Indiana are eligible to participate.
International News
The Field Museum has recently begun a new international environmental education initiative, bringing Earth Force GREEN to Bolivia for the first time! The Field Museum is working with local partners to implement the Cobija Environmental Education Program in the department of Pando's capital city. Using the Spanish curriculum, Protegiendo Nuestras Cuencas Hidrológicas (PNCH), teachers and students participate in water quality monitoring and local civic action projects in the world's largest watershed, the Amazon.
Pando, in northern Bolivia, has both high biological diversity and high threats to that biodiversity. Rapidly expanding logging and ranching activities seriously threaten Pando's biological riches and create challenging components to kids' conservation action projects.
As the Field Museum moves forward in this pilot program, the PNCH curriculum is continuously adapted for cultural relevance and local realities, and new education materials are presently being developed to address the need for locally relevant education tools.
Cotnact Us
Kirk Anne Taylor
The Field Museum - Environmental and Conservation Programs
1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605
Phone (312) 665-7442
Fax (312) 665-7433
Email Windycity@earthforce.org
Success Stories
Protecting Wolf Lake
5 Mar 2003 -
During the 2003-04 school year, 12 students in teacher Rachel Yzaguirre's special education class in Chicago, Illinois, studied the Indian Creek watershed that flows into Wolf Lake at the William Powers Conservation Area. More...