Apply Online

1. To Become an Eco School in Indiana‎ (United States), the applicant has to make the application National Wildlife Federation’s Eco School Portal link
2. Click on “Register an International School” and enter School name, Country and Zip code.
3. The Applicant has to fill in all the necessary information in the application form.
4. The Applicant has to upload all the necessary documents that are Mentioned in the “Required Documents” section of this page.
5. The Applicant has to review the application and submit the application form.
6. The registration to become an Eco School is free of cost.
7. The authority will review the application, once the application meets all the requirements the registration will be completed within a week.
   

Once the registration is completed, the Eco school must follow these 7 steps:

STEP 1 - Establish an Eco-Action Team:

1. The Eco-Schools Committee is the driving force behind the Eco-Schools process and will represent the ideas of the whole school.
2. The Eco Committee ensures that the entire school knows about Eco-Schools and will receive regular updates.
3. The Eco Committee meets regularly to discuss environmental and social actions for the school.

STEP 2 - Carry out a Sustainability Audit:

1. This step will help the Eco-Action Team understand the current environmental situation of the school and will provide a basis for the Eco-Action Plan.
2. The Eco-Schools USA Environmental Review checklist can help the team figure out which of the pathways it should focus on.

STEP 3 - Eco-Action Plan:

1. The Action Plan is the core of Eco-Schools work and should be developed using the results of the Sustainability Audit.
2. Use the Sustainability Audit to identify the priority areas in your school. To keep it manageable we suggest focusing on not more than three Themes at a time.
3. Goals should be achievable and provide realistic targets and deadlines to improve the environmental quality of the school.

STEP 4 - Monitor and Evaluate:

1. This process will use to gauge your progress should be developed in parallel with the development of your Eco-Action Plan.

STEP 5 - Curriculum Work:

1. Besides increasing the status of the program, linking Eco-Schools activities to the curriculum ensures that Eco-Schools is truly integrated within the school community.
2. Integrating the programme into the curriculum can be done, either directly through specific classes or innovative teaching.

STEP 6 - Inform and Involve the Community:

1. Get everyone on board! Actions should not just be confined to the school: for example, pupils should take home ideas to put into practice.

STEP 7: Produce an Eco Code:

1. The code will state the school's views about the environment. It contains your mission statement that reflects your Eco-Action Plan and your curriculum. How the Eco-Code is formatted is entirely up to the school. Your Eco-Code can be in any form, a list of statements, a song or rap, or a poem.

• School Name
• Particulars of School
• Layout plan

The National Wildlife Federation
Headquarters
11100 Wildlife Centre Drive
Reston, VA 20190
Member Services: 1-800-822-9919
CatLog: 1-800-756-3752
Contact details link
Regional Centres and Affiliates link

Indiana Wildlife Federation
Indiana Wildlife Federation
708 E. Michigan St.
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Email: info@indianawildlife.org
Contact link

• Any person who intends to start and Eco School is eligible to make this application.

• Fees for registering an Eco School is free of cost.

Explain the time until which the certificate/document is valid.
e.g. Birth Certificate Valid Forever.

• Eco-Action Team planning worksheetlink

Please attach sample completed documents that would help other people.

• The Processing time to register an Eco School takes up to 1week.

Videos explaining the procedure or to fill the applications.
Attach videos using the following tag <&video type='website'>video ID|width|height<&/video&>
from external websites.
Please remove the '&' inside the tags during implementation.
Website = allocine, blip, dailymotion, facebook, gametrailers, googlevideo, html5, metacafe, myspace, revver,
sevenload, viddler, vimeo, youku, youtube
width = 560, height = 340, Video ID = Can be obtained from the URL of webpage where the video is displayed.
e.gIn the following url 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0US7oR_t3M' Video ID is 'Y0US7oR_t3M'.

• Applicants must complete the application form before submitting it. Incomplete applications will not be accepted.
• Applicants must provide genuine information while applying for this procedure.

• Name of the school
• Email
• Primary Contact Phone Number
• Mailing Address
• City
• State
• Zip code
• Country
• Emergency contact
• Permanent address

• Eco-Schools is a growing phenomenon, which encourages young people to engage in their environment by allowing them the opportunity to actively protect it. It starts in the classroom; it expands to the school and eventually fosters change in the community at large.

• Guidelines link

Please explain what are other uses of obtaining this document/certificate.
e.g. Birth Certificate can be used as proof of identity.

Link

Awards Criteria:
Bronze Award:

• The school has identified an Eco-Action Team that is composed of a diverse group of teachers and students.
• The group meets at least 4 times a year.
• Informal minutes are kept at each meeting
• The group informs the whole school of committee discussions and actions.

Silver Award:

• The school has identified an Eco-Action Team which is composed of students, teachers and community members.
• The group meets at least 6 times a year.
• Students are part of the decision-making process and share responsibility for keeping minutes for each meeting.
• Students are responsible for communicating Eco-Action Team information to the whole school.

Green Flag Award:

• The school has identified an Eco-Action Team which has strong representation from students (at least 50%), and also includes teachers, other school staff and community members.
• Students take significant responsibility for conducting the Eco-Action Team meetings and the team's decision-making process.
• The group meets at least 8 times a year.
• Students share responsibility for keeping minutes for each meeting and communicating information to the whole school.
• Student representatives actively engage other students and collect suggestions from the greater student body.