The UVI Cooperative Extension Service offers a wide variety of eco-tours and eco-hikes, hands-on and video presentations for classes and youth groups. In addition, a library of resources is also available for use by teachers, youth group leaders & other educators on a number of environmental topics.

CES staff works with teachers and students one-on-one to provide guidance, information and reference materials about local environmental issues, pollution prevention, water quality, native plants & habitats, medicinal plants, soils, and a host of other topics. Teacher training workshops can also be designed and offered upon request. For more information visit your local Cooperative Extension office:

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Interactive Youth Presentations:

• Medicinal Plant Use in the VI
• Native Plants & Habitats
• Nonpoint Source Water Pollution: When it Rains, It Drains
• Safe & Healthy Home
• Soils & Conservation
• V.I. Pollution Problems & Solutions
• The Water Cycle & Water Conservation
• What is a Watershed?

St. Thomas Tours & Eco-Hikes

• Brewers Bay rocky shorline walk
• CES Demonstration Garden tour
• Environmental landscaping tour - local gardens
• Identifying plants on your campus
• Magens Bay plant habitats/Arboretum

St. Croix Tours & Eco-Hikes

• Annaly Bay, Wills Bay, Sweet-Bottom Bay, Davis Bay
• Blue Mountain
• Buck Island Trail
• Butler's Bay
• Caledonia Gut
• Creque Dam
• Estate Punch/Estate Williams
• Great Pond
• Jack & Isaacs Bays
• Mount Eagle
• Mount Victory
• Pleasant Valley
• Rose Hill
• Salt River Park
• Sandy Point
• Spring Bay

Video Presentations

• "Adventures of Camoflauge Kid" — Clean Streets/Clean Beaches (also available in Spanish).
• "E" — environmental education program (Part 1: 14 minutes; Part 2: 13 minutes) with education packets for grades 4-6 that include a Teacher's Guide, Product Cards, Pre- and Post-Tests, Practice and Take-Home Excercises, Mini-Posters, and Family Activity Sheets. Topics for each grade are:
• Grade 4: Waste Reduction (reducing waste and pollution from waste)
• Grade 5: Pollution Control (pollution problems, how they are caused by human activities, effects on the environment, and everyday behaviors to minimize pollution)
• Grade 6: Conserving Natural Resources (benefits of natural environment, why natural resources are over-used and that overuse can cause problems, everyday behaviors to help conserve natural resources.
• "Enviro-Shopping" — (12:34 minutes). Teacher infornmation and student activities packet also available.
• "From Waste Water To Water Gardens" — University of Florida video on new ways of treating wastewater (10:00 minutes).
• "Man of the Trees" — Music for Little People video about Richard St. Barbe who dedicated most of his 92 years to preserving the world's forests (25:00 minutes).
• "Native Self Reliance" — Bullfrog Films video about Native Americans using alternative energy sources (20:00 minutes).
• "Nature's Way" — waste water treatment (10:16 minutes).
• "Replanting the Tree of Life" (20:00 minutes).
• "Saving Life on Earth" — World Wildlife Fund (10:00 minutes).
• "Saving Water" — water conservation (8:26 minutes) with "Water: the Lost Treasure" student/teacher workbook.
• "Think Earth" — environmental education program (7:00 minutes) with education packets for grades K-3 that include Teachers Guide, Story Cards, Evaluation Cards, Family Activity Sheets, Hanging Badges/Resource or Product Cards, Pre- and Post-Tests, Practice Excercises, and Mini-Posters. Topics for each grade are:
• Grade K: The Environment (what natural environment is, how to use trees from environment, why we shouldn't waste paper and litter environment).
• Grade 1: Everything Comes from the Environment (what natural environment is, how we should use natural resources from the environment to make products, why we shouldn't waste resources).
• Grade 2: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
• Grade 3: Our Community (pollution in the environment).
• "The Wealth in Wetlands" — National Association of Conservation Districts (23:00 minutes).

Curriculum Guides / Compendiums

• Adventures of Garbage Gremlin — Grades 4-6 (U.S. EPA)
• Compendium of Education Materials on the Water Environment — (Alliance for Environmental Education)
• Comprehensive Water Education Book — Grades K-6 (International Office for Water Education, Utah State University).
• Earth Trek...Explore Your Environment — Grades K-6 (U.S. EPA)
• Environmental Education Materials for Teachers and Young People — Grades K-12 (U.S. EPA).
• Environmental Teaching in the Virgin Islands: A Local Way of Learning — Grades K-12 (V.I. Department of Education)
• Enviro-Shopping Adventures — Grades K-5 (USDA Extension Service & University of Florida)
• Groundwater Protection Through Prevention — Secondary School (Iowa State University)
• Let's Reduce and Recycle: Curriculum for Solid Waste Awareness — Grades K-6 and 7-12 (U.S. EPA)
• Pawtucket Watershed Education Program Curriculum — (Can be modified to general watershed principles; Southern Rhode Island Conservation District)
• Rainforest: Help Save Their Layers of Life — (National Wildlife Federation)
• School Recycling Programs: A Handbook for Educators — Grades K-12 (U.S. EPA)
• School-yard Habitat — (National Wildlife Federation)
• Science Demonstration Projects in Drinking Water — Grades K-12 (U.S. EPA)
• Teaching Soil & Water Conservation — Grades 4-12 (USDA Soil Conservation Service)
• Turning the Tide on Trash: A Learning Guide on Marine Debris — Grades 4-12 (U.S. EPA)
• V.I. Solid Waste Curriculum — V.I. Department of Public Works
• WOW: The Wonders of Wetlands — Grades K-12 (Environmental Concerns, Inc.)