Deadline: May 15, 2008

The Live Green Teacher Grant program, a Discovery Education program presented by General Motors, challenges middle school teachers to develop innovative ideas for furthering environmental and energy sustainability. Participating teachers will identify an issue or problem, create a plan to address it, and integrate the topic into classroom teaching.

Forty grants of $1,000 each will be awarded to teachers for the most forward-thinking ideas. Twenty of the grants will be awarded to teachers whose schools are located within fifty miles of a General Motors plant; the other twenty grants will be awarded to teachers whose schools are located elsewhere in the United States. In addition, the forty recipients will be given access to an online professional development program designed to help them reach their school's specific green initiatives, including a free digital camera to document and share the experience.

The program is open to legal U.S. residents 18 years of age and older and who are employed as middle school teachers (grades 5-9) in accredited public schools in the United States that are organized and primarily operated for educational purposes, and are considered 501c3 tax-exempt or are registered as a public school with the National Center for Educational Statistics.

For more information, visit Live Green Grant Program for Middle School Teachers.