The Teva Learning Center is a Jewish education group which engages in environmental education and activism through the context of Judaism. Teva's education centers on the preservation of the environment from a Jewish point of view. Teva frequently teaches children in Jewish day schools teaches as well as synagogues, camps and youth groups. Teva provides a hands-on approach to environmental education.
Bring It Back To Our School Teva provides workshops on the environment and outdoor experiences along the East Coast at 45 different schools working with about 4,000 students annually. Part of this is teaching students that they are
Shomrei Adamah ('Keepers of the Earth'): Shomrei Adamah ('Keepers of the Earth'), is for fifth- and sixth-grade day-school students who visit a retreat center for four days and make a 'brit adamah,' or covenant with the earth, to engage in environmental activity. The Center also runs a program for junior-high students, Achdoot ('Togetherness'), in which the teens camp in the wilderness, usually a state campground. In June 2009, students from the
Solomon Schechter Day School of Raritan Valley in New Jersey were presented with the 'Kids for Clean Communities Award' for the recycling program they developed at their school after attending the Teva program. The bus was incorporated into environmental awareness programs related to
Birkat Hachamah or
Blessing of the Sun.
Teva Seminar An annual four-day program designed to train over 100 participants to develop programs in their 'home' institutions. ==References==