National Park Foundation Grants Help Parks Develop Climate-Change Programs For Youth


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Eight units of the National Park System are splitting $164,000, made available through the National Park Foundation, for use in developing climate-change programs that teachers may use to develop engaging curriculum for their students on the subject of climate change.

Parks Climate Challenge program encourages the use of national parks as classrooms to educate students about climate change through funding and facilitation, hands-on, science-based field curriculum.

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