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Who can participate?
Students ages 13-24 anywhere in the world, in any educational setting, are welcome to participate.
- High school or college classes
- Community service programs
- Independent study projects
- Environmental or other clubs
- Afterschool or community-based youth programs
- Home school students
- Summer programs
- Community and civic groups
In order to participate, students need an adult sponsor - a teacher, club advisor, faculty sponsor or parent.
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What types of projects can we do? What if my group is already involved in an environmental project?
Any project that offers care, protection, or advocacy for a "Walden" - a place or environmental issue - in your community. Projects can last a single morning, a day, weeks, or longer and can be done individually or in teams, depending on the goals and preferences of your class or group.
If your group is already working on a project, great! Pick and choose environmental ethic exploration activities, readings, or project planning tools to ehance what you do - and post your project to the World Wide Waldens Project Showcase.
Project Examples:
- Pakistani students cleaned up a playground that had become a trash dump and provided a desperately needed water filtration system for a local school
- A Maryland student wrote environmental articles for her local community newspaper
- Students in Santiago, Chile tested the effects of fluoridation in the Bio Bio River.
- Students involved with a Massachusetts home school collaborative "greened" their new building, from floor to toilets to ceiling.
- Middle school students in Concord, Massachusetts, removed invasive garlic mustard weeds from local public lands.
- Students in San Francisco, California, spent five weeks trying to decrease their carbon footprints.
Visit the Project Showcase for ideas or browse our collection of recommended websites to find a topic that interests you.
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How do I add my project to the Project Showcase?
Adult sponsors - a teacher, club advisor, or other sponsor - should sign up for a World Wide Waldens account. Once registered, they can log in and create a project account for each group or student that wants to post a Showcase page. The teacher or advisor provides login information to students and must approve Showcase pages before Walden staff can review them and add them to the Showcase.
Note: Students can't register themselves. If you are a student interested in using World Wide Waldens for an independent project, please ask a teacher or advisor to sponsor you.
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Is there a set program curriculum with lesson plans?
Download the Program & Activity Handbook for a complete set of environmental ethic exploration lesson plans, suggested Thoreau readings, and project planning tools. And be sure to check the Activity Guide area of the website for new activities and readings. If you have a great activity or lesson, share it using the Suggest an Activity form or send it to education@walden.org. We're always looking for inspirational teachers and student groups, with stories to tell.
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What is the Walden Web Summit? How does it work?
The Summit is a special web-based video conference event, held once a year. It's our way of celebrating the work students have done and giving students from different parts of the world a chance to share firsthand some of the environmental issues and choices facing them. To learn more about this year's event, visit the Summit area of the site.
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