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Teaching about the natural and built environment provides a real-world context for learning by linking the classroom to the students' community. Students are engaged in hands-on, active learning that increases their knowledge and awareness about the environment. Because environmental education encourages inquiry and investigation, students develop critical thinking, problem-solving, and effective decision-making skills. Environmentally literate students become citizens who are able to weigh various sides of an environmental issue and make responsible decisions as individuals and as members of their community. Quality, standards-based environmental education improves everyday life by protecting human health and encouraging stewardship of natural resources.

Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Environmental Education. Retrieved August 1, 2003, from http://www.epa.gov/enviroed

Ocee Elementary is a Georgia DOT Safe Routes to Schools School!

North Fulton schools designated Clean Air Schools
by Staff reports

January 13, 2010
FULTON COUNTY - A dozen Fulton County Schools have been designated as Clean Air Schools, joining more than 220 schools statewide which have made a commitment to a cleaner environment for students and staff.

"By learning to 'repair the air' with no idling initiatives, promoting alternative modes of transportation (walking and riding the bus) and learning about the air we breathe through creative lesson plans, students become stewards for good air quality," noted Sarah Waters of the Clean Air Campaign.

The following schools have successfully completed one or more Clean Air Schools programs in a prior school year and are continuing to work toward improving air quality for their students and the community:

In Alpharetta: Alpharetta Elementary, Amana Academy, Fulton Science Academy Middle School McGinnis Woods Country Day School, Ocee Elementary, and Webb Bridge Middle School

In Roswell: Centennial High School, Esther Jackson Elementary, Hembree Springs Elementary, High Meadows School, and Village Montessori.