This content was created to enhance the environmental education curriculum with additional tools, lesson improvements, and local Michigan data using geographic information systems (GIS) technology. Visit the geospatial learning portal at MI EnviroLearning Hub. For questions and comments, reach out to EGLE-Classroom@Michigan.gov. For more information about the environmental education curriculum, see below.

MEECS (Michigan Environmental Education Curriculum Support) is a state-specific environmental education curriculum funded and managed by EGLE to help students learn about Michigan's economy and environment through inquiry oriented, data-based lessons in Science and Social Studies.

MEECS units apply to grades 3-12 and can be used individually, adopted into a school's multi-year science curricula, or combined to form the basis for an integrated science course. Since their development, MEECS lessons have been field tested by over 200 Michigan classrooms and have reached roughly 8,000 educators and 400,000 Michigan students.

The MEECS Climate Change unit is a multi-faceted unit comprised of two separate functional units: Science and Impacts. Climate Change: Science focuses on the physical nature of climate, and focuses on causes, analysis, modeling, and an overall exploration into mechanisms of the Energy Cycle. Climate Change: Impacts focuses on the repercussions of climate change to engage more students to be future-oriented. The effects of climate change are examined at the global and local scales; special emphasis is placed on climate change as it pertains to Michigan's Great Lakes. (Last revised 2013; New unit to be released July 2023).