The South Carolina State Park Service’s educational outreach program – Discover Carolina – has received the “Outstanding Leadership in Environmental Education Annual Award” for 2009 from the Environmental Education Association of South Carolina (EEASC).
Nearing the end of its first decade, the Discover Carolina program last school year provided social studies and science lessons – and a fun, hands-on field trip – to more than 19,000 students at 18 state parks and the State House.
The lessons follow state curriculum guidelines while the young visitors focus on each site’s unique assets; for example, tiny aquatic creatures in the Lynches River at Lee State Natural Area near Bishopville or the backcountry colonial life of the nation’s seventh president at Andrew Jackson State Park near Lancaster.
Past winners of the EEASC’s top honor include Furman University for its environmental education programs and the S.C. Department of Education for its middle school environmental education initiatives. This year’s award was presented at the organization’s recent annual meeting in Greenville
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