Through a series of hands-on activities, participants will be introduced to a new, free resource designed to foster developmentally appropriate environmental education. Early Childhood Environmental Education Programs: Guidelines for Excellence, published by the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE), provides a set of research-based recommendations for developing and administering high-quality environmental education programs and experiences for young children from birth to age eight, with a focus on ages three to six. These Guidelines, created by a panel of experts in early childhood and environmental education fields, provide a tool that can be used to ensure a firm foundation for new programs or to trigger improvements in existing ones. The Early Childhood Environmental Education Guidelines identify six, easy-to-use key characteristics of high-quality early childhood environmental education programs, including program philosophy, DAP, play and exploration, outdoor spaces, curriculum development and professional development. The Guidelines are designed to assist educators, administrators, or program developers concerned about the quality of early childhood environmental education programs or experiences, providing direction yet offering flexibility in shaping content, technique, and other aspects of program delivery. They can be used to offer a way of judging the relative merit of different programs, provide standards/benchmarks for new programs, and supply a set of ideas about what a well-rounded early childhood environmental education program might be like. Participants will engage in hands-on activities from easily accessed early childhood environmental education instructional materials and receive a copy of the Guidelines.