INDIANA – To help Indiana schools celebrate Earth Day 2024, the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) offers free hands-on classroom presentations to elementary students nationwide.
IDEM staff visit schools annually to discuss their careers and share STEM-based air, land, water, and recycling lessons.
“I am pleased to have IDEM staff visit classrooms to work with Indiana’s leaders of tomorrow. Our STEM-based lessons are a great way to emphasize the importance of taking care of our environment while also introducing them to environmental-related careers,” said IDEM Commissioner Brian Rockensuess. “I hope Indiana’s teachers will take advantage of this great opportunity.”
Classroom Earth Day presentations are available for elementary schools and vary from 30 to 50 minutes. The interactive presentations offer activities such as reducing, reusing, and recycling trash, showing how long your trash lasts, or demonstrating how water flows through a watershed.
In-person classroom presentations are available on a first-come, first-served basis throughout April, and each school may request up to four presentations.
Registration is now open. Teachers can request a classroom presentation by visiting on.IN.gov/IDEMclassroom.
Educators may direct questions to IDEM’s Environmental Education & Outreach Coordinator at education@idem.IN.gov or call 800-988-7901.
