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Welcome to MEEA

MEEA is the Missouri Environmental Education Association

Our Vision is an environmentally responsible citizenry in Missouri

Our Mission is to provide innovative professional development and networking opportunities for Missouri's Environmental Educators, both for teachers in the classroom and for educators in agencies and organizations, to help them help Missourians become more environmentally responsible.

Learn about the Federal No Child Left Inside Act and how it will help support environmental education in Missouri.

Contacting MEEA

If you have questions about the organization, about membership and its benefits, or about environmental education in Missouri, email Jan Weaver at weaverjc@missouri.edu.

Joining MEEA

You can help us with our vision of an environmentally responsible citizenry in Missouri by becoming a Member of MEEA and by actively participating in our activities - attending or presenting at our conference, participating in or providing a professional development workshop, submitting information about events and activities in your region, taking a leadership role in the organization, and/or undertaking the certification program.

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Click here to download the MORAP MAP GLE Alignments

Site Organization

• What is MEEA: mission, description of environmental education, membership benefits, organizational structure, list of board members, summaries of board actions
• Newsletters
• Contact Information

• Links: a list of parks, agencies, organizations and businesses that might be useful to an environmental educator, sorted by region (nw, ne, kc, central, stl, sw, ozark, se) with hot links or contact information
• Who's Who: MEEA Award Winners, information on nominating people for awards, MEEA Certified Educators, a link to the certification page, regional contacts of Conservation Educators and Envirothon coordinators
• News and Issues: summaries of EE related news, and pdfs of the quarterly newsletter
• Jobs: links to job posting sites and a list of job possibilities in the Missouri area that is updated monthly
• Events: a list of events that might be of interest to an environmental educator (but do not qualify as professional development) sorted by region, updated monthly

"Resources" includes

• Curricula: brief descriptions of and or links to environmental education curricula
• Grants and Awards: a list of grants and awards, organized by due date with summaries of amounts, eligibility, critera and a web link or contact, updated monthly
• Environmental Topics: short articles on various topics from the MU Environmental Network News
• Links: a list of parks, agencies, organizations and businesses that might be useful to an environmental educator, sorted by region (nw, ne, kc, central, stl, sw, ozark, se) with hot links or contact information
• Research: this site is under construction
• Presentations: this site is under construction

"Professional Development" includes

• Certification: a description of the MEEA Environmental Education Certification program with information on how to enroll (MO DESE does not have certification in EE, so this has no official standing - yet)
• Conference: the website for the annual conference
• Workshops: the professional development workshops that satisfy requirements for the Environmental Education Certification, updated monthly
• Events: a list of events that might be of interest to an environmental educator (but do not qualify as professional development) sorted by region, updated monthly

"Members Only" requires a password and includes

• Board Minutes
• Discussion Board
• Member Directory
• Email Bulletin
• Online Polls and Survey

The image on the front page of the Fall 2009 Quarterly Newsletter is of blazing star, Liatris pycnostachia. It is native of Missouri prairies found statewide except in the southeast lowlands. It blooms July through October.

December 2009