Online eeCOURSES and eeCREDENTIALS

Unlock Your Potential with eeCREDENTIALS

  • Cutting-edge online courses
  • Flexible learning options
  • Digital badges to showcase your skills to employers and colleagues
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eeCREDENTIALS is a groundbreaking micro-credential program that's revolutionizing professional development in environmental education.

Offered by participating NAAEE Affiliates, online eeCOURSES and eeCREDENTIALS will help you develop skills and knowledge to improve your professional practice–all without leaving home!

What’s an eeCOURSE?

eeCOURSES are top-quality, competency-based courses on specific topics across the breadth of environmental education. Study on your own time—most courses are asynchronous and each runs 10–15 hours. Earn digital badges and certificates of completion. 

How to Sign Up

  • Review the list below for courses and participating Affiliates. Visit the Affiliate website for more information.
  • Out-of-state/provincial registration is readily available if an eeCOURSE is not offered by your Affiliate.
  • Check Affiliate listings for additional courses.
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What’s an eeCREDENTIAL?

eeCOURSES can be combined to earn eeCREDENTIALS that demonstrate your mastery of key skills and content in EE. eeCREDENTIALS comprise 3–5 related eeCOURSES plus a culminating project.

eeCREDENTIALS are awarded by the Affiliates. You can earn both standard and customized eeCREDENTIALS.

 

 

The eeCREDENTIALS program is supported by ee360+, NAAEE’s cooperative agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

eeCOURSE Descriptions and Participating Affiliates

Check Affiliate websites below for more information, including additional course offerings.

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Accessible by Nature: Designing EE to Support All Learners

This course uses the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework to guide the design of learning environments that are accessible and challenging for all, rather than making modifications for individual students. UDL improves and optimizes teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn, giving all students equal opportunity to succeed.

Don't see your Affiliate listed? You're welcome to register with another state or province.

Canada 

United States

Building Relationships for Community EE

This course focuses on Key Characteristic 1 of the Guidelines for Excellence: Community Engagement and will help you take steps toward building relationships in your community. “Environmental Education in Your Community” is a prerequisite. 

Don't see your Affiliate listed? You're welcome to register with another state or province.

United States

Capacity Building, Civic Action, & Long-Term Investment in Change

This course explores how environmental education can support capacity building for ongoing civic engagement in community life and the long-term commitment required to do so.

Don't see your Affiliate listed? You're welcome to register with another state or province.

United States

Children & Nature

This course provides foundational knowledge of theory, practice, and research on the emerging field of nature-based learning for young children in formal and non-formal settings.

Don't see your Affiliate listed? You're welcome to register with another state or province.

United States

Climate Literacy

This course is designed to teach non-formal educators the basics of climate change, through readings, simulations, and visualizations, and also introduce them to climate change communication strategies.

Don't see your Affiliate listed? You're welcome to register with another state or province.

United States

Collective Outcomes Evaluation

Strengthen your environmental education programs through effective evaluation. This course equips you to measure outcomes across key impact areas—conservation, PreK–12 education, youth development, and health. You'll also gain access to national, peer-reviewed tools to support effective, impact-driven evaluation.

Don't see your Affiliate listed? You're welcome to register with another state or province.

United States

Community Engagement in Environmental Education

This course is designed to introduce you to NAAEE’s Community Engagement: Guidelines for Excellence and give you opportunities to practice using the Guidelines with a selected community.

Don't see your Affiliate listed? You're welcome to register with another state or province.

United States

Core Curriculum Program Training

This course trains participants in the core suite of environmental education programs, and may include Project WET, Project Learning Tree, Project WILD, the NAAEE Guidelines for Excellence, Leopold Education Project, PLT Early Childhood, and Growing Up WILD. The course takes different forms in different states/provinces and may include training to become certified facilitators for these materials. Consult each Affiliate’s course catalog for details.

Don't see your Affiliate listed? You're welcome to register with another state or province.

United States

Developing High-Quality Early Childhood Environmental Education Programs

This course is designed to provide early childhood formal and nonformal educators with an introduction to environmental education, experience with early childhood environmental education activities, and the skills necessary to integrate early childhood environmental education into their classrooms, centers, family child care homes, and programs. We primarily focus on ages three to six.

Don't see your Affiliate listed? You're welcome to register with another state or province.

United States

Early Childhood Environmental Education; Growing up WILD and PLT's Early Childhood Experiences

This course is designed to provide early childhood formal and nonformal educators with an introduction to environmental education and the skills necessary to integrate Growing Up WILD and PLT Early Childhood environmental activities within your classroom, center, home daycare, or program.

Don't see your Affiliate listed? You're welcome to register with another state or province.

United States

Engaging Teens in Exploring Green Careers

This course is for PreK–12 teachers, camp and scout leaders, zoo and park staff, naturalists, after-school program staff, natural resource professionals, and anyone who works with high school-age youth. Participants explore a variety of strategies, tools, and resources to integrate career exploration into programming and help teens on their path to an environmental career.

Don't see your Affiliate listed? You're welcome to register with another state or province.

United States

Environmental Education in Your Community

Focusing on Key Characteristic 1 of the NAAEE Guidelines for Excellence: Community Engagement, this course is designed to help you anchor environmental aims within the context of community interests, issues, and capacities that put the community at the heart of EE.

Don't see your Affiliate listed? You're welcome to register with another state or province.

United States

Foundations in Teaching Environmental Education

This course is designed to provide educators with the background knowledge and skills necessary to ground future professional learning experiences in the sound principles of environmental education.

Don't see your Affiliate listed? You're welcome to register with another state or province.

Canada 

United States

Green Schools and You

This course is designed to help you learn about Green School programs in general--what they are, how to lead a program, and where to begin in building a program.

Don't see your Affiliate listed? You're welcome to register with another state or province.

United States

Introduction to Community Engagement

This course is designed to introduce you to and provide an overview of NAAEE’s Guidelines for Excellence: Community Engagement, including its five key characteristics and complementary elements that facilitate successful community engagement. This set of guidelines focuses on community wellness and is designed to help environmental educators create inclusive environments that support effective partnerships and collaborations.

Don't see your Affiliate listed? You're welcome to register with another state or province.

United States

Investigating Environmental Issues

This course is designed to provide educators with the background knowledge and skills needed to identify, investigate, and evaluate environmental issues as well as plan appropriate action based on their analysis.

Don't see your Affiliate listed? You're welcome to register with another state or province.

United States

Leopold Education Project

This course is designed to provide K–12 formal and nonformal educators with an introduction to environmental education, and the skills necessary to integrate Leopold Education Project environmental activities within your classroom, homeschool classroom, or program.

Don't see your Affiliate listed? You're welcome to register with another state or province.

United States

Managing Controversy: Strategies for Teaching Environmental Issues and Topics

This course actively involves educators in understanding and building skills in how to investigate and evaluate environmental issues and topics with their learners. Participants will explore how to effectively teach about environmental issues and topics, and will start to develop their own classroom/program plans about teaching environmental issues and/or topics.
 

Don't see your Affiliate listed? You're welcome to register with another state or province.

United States

Nature and Human Wellness

This course provides learners with a foundation of the knowledge, theories, and interdisciplinary research on the important link between nature and human wellness. Throughout the course, you will be introduced to the science of our interconnection with the natural world, and receive an overview of the emerging field of studies indicating the important role nature plays in the healthy development of the whole child (physical, mental and behavioral) and their continued wellness into adulthood. Additionally, participants will learn to identify strategies of leveraging nature’s positive impact on wellness to drive positive changes in policy and practices in schools and community centers.

Don't see your Affiliate listed? You're welcome to register with another state or province.

United States

Sound Environmental Education Principles

This course is designed to provide educators with the background knowledge and skills necessary to engage communities in environmental education experiences that are based on established principles and proven practices in the field.

Don't see your Affiliate listed? You're welcome to register with another state or province.

United States

Teaching and Learning Outdoors

This course is designed for formal and nonformal educators with an introduction to environmental education and experience with integrating teaching and learning outdoors within your classroom, homeschool classroom, or program.

Don't see your Affiliate listed? You're welcome to register with another state or province.

United States

Teaching Climate

This course is designed to teach the basics of climate science and introduce educators to climate change communication strategies. This course features activities from Project WET’s Climate, Water and Resilience Educator Module.

Don't see your Affiliate listed? You're welcome to register with another state or province.

United States

Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Environmental Education

This course familiarizes participants with the background knowledge of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) or Native Science, compares traditional ecological knowledge and Western science, and uses a TEK approach to understanding your relationship with the environment. Further, participants will develop a teaching plan that integrates TEK approaches and philosophies into teaching and learning.

Don't see your Affiliate listed? You're welcome to register with another state or province.

United States