NYS Environmental Science

For the use of STANYS SARS and all Environmental Science Teachers

"Nature is an excellent combination and repitition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Welcome to the STANYS Environmental Science SARS Resource Web Site. The purpose of this page is to give the Section leaders of Environmental Science Education a place to contribute to the resources available. SARS are encouraged to point ES teachers in their sections to this site as a "clearinghouse" for ES lesson plans, upcoming conferences, Environmental Science Education web site links, outstanding  reading resources for Environmental Science teachers and students, and other important resources. Please explore some of the links below. Thanks and enjoy...

• The Book Shelf - An anotated bibliography of our SARS' favorite books about the environment and environmental science education.
• Lesson plans - Favorite seasonal lab and field activities or our STANYS Subject Area Representatives.
• Web Resources - Web sites our SARS have found to be useful in teaching (and learning more about) Environmental Science
• Upcoming Events and Activities of Interest ot teachers and students of Environmental Science

For comments or questions.....contact Rick Beal - STANYS Director at Large - Environmental Science at: rebeal@esf.edu