The Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) is offering free virtual presentations to elementary schools across the state in honor of Earth Day 2022.

The presentations are interactive, varying in length from 30 to 50 minutes, and offer activities like reduce, reuse, recycle your trash; or a demonstration of how water flows through a watershed. This is part of a yearly program in which IDEM staff meet with students to talk about their careers and share science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) based lessons about air, land, water, and recycling.

Teachers who participated in last year’s Virtual Earth Day Celebration commented on how well the students learned with the “hands-on way of learning.”

If you would like your students to participate, you must register and registration is open now. You can visit www.idem.in.gov/iee/index.htm to see dates, topics, and to register for free. Presentations are also available throughout the year.
 

If you are an educator with questions, you can contact IDEM’s Environmental Education Outreach Coordinator at education@idem.IN.gov or 800-988-7901.