**Recipient of the 2015 and 2016 Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence**
TRY stands for Teens Reaching Youth and is an environmental leadership opportunity for youth in grades 7-12. It is a teen-led environmental education program with an embedded service learning component designed to teach environmental literacy and responsibility to younger youth. TRY for the Environment includes four program areas—renewable energy, waste solutions, food systems andforest & trees —to connect young people to real-world environmental problems in which they can be key change agents helping to create real-world solutions.
The Teens Reaching Youth program has allowed our students to become experts on energy and sustainability issues. It has enabled them to become agents of change through education.” – Don Taylor, Main Street Middle School teacher
The TRY program consists of four program areas:
Each program area curriculum includes 6 different one-hour lessons that are fun, hands-on, and easy to teach!
Renewable Energy highlights wind and solar energy. Grades K-3
Climate Change Through Waste Solutions focuses on the 4Rs—reduce, reuse, recycle and rot. Grades K-3
*(Revised lessons for 2016-2017)
Food Systems explores the food system and the need to protect our soil, seeds, pollinators and climate. Grades 3-5
*(Revised lessons for 2016-2017)
Forests & Trees investigates the functions, life stages and main parts of trees, and how to be a tree steward. Grades 3-5
For more information go to: https://www.uvm.edu/extension/youth/