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Please find below the announcement for this year's Environmental
Literacy Grants competition. For more information, please visit
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.oesd.noaa.gov">http://www.oesd.noaa.gov</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Arial" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">NOAA Announces New Funding
For Environmental Literacy
Projects<br>
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Title: Environmental Literacy Grants for K-12 Education</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">NOAA's Office of Education
(OED) is requesting applications for environmental literacy projects in
support
of K-12 education. Funded projects will be between 1 and 5 years in
duration and will promote changes in K-12 education to expand the
amount of
Earth System Science taught in the classroom and improve student
learning and
application of that subject. Successful projects will catalyze change
in K-12
education through development of new programs and materials and/or
revision of
existing programs and materials and/or by supporting transformative
methods
that expand or lead to the expansion of the use of Earth System Science
in K-12
classrooms. Successful projects will not just increase knowledge of
scientific
phenomena but will also provide opportunities for the application of
that
knowledge to environmental issues relevant to the target audience.
Projects are
encouraged to incorporate NOAA data, data visualizations, and resources
and to
further the use of Earth System Science concepts related to NOAA's
mission
goals. Projects are also encouraged to collaborate with NOAA entities
as
partners and/or connect to projects previously funded by NOAA's
Environmental
Literacy Grants. A list of previously funded projects is available at <a
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href="http://www.oesd.noaa.gov/elg_projects.html"
title="http://www.oesd.noaa.gov/elg_projects.html">www.oesd.noaa.gov/elg_projects.html</a>.
It is anticipated that final recommendations for funding under this
announcement will be made by September 15, 2008, and that projects
funded under
this announcement will have a start date no earlier than November 1,
2008.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Pre-proposals
are </b><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">REQUIRED and are due
Wednesday, February
20, 2008</span></b>. Full proposals are due Wednesday, June 25, 2008.<br>
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Please visit <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.oesd.noaa.gov/funding_opps.html"
title="http://www.oesd.noaa.gov/funding_opps.html">http://www.oesd.noaa.gov/funding_opps.html</a>
for the full announcement and additional information.<br>
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This funding opportunity's ID on grants.gov (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.grants.gov/">www.grants.gov</a>)
is SEC-OED-2009-2001282.</span></font><font size="2"><span
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