Business,
Community Awareness,
Environmental,
Outdoor Fun,
STEAM
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Watershed Awareness using Technology and Environmental Research for Sustainability
The WATERS project is a student-centered, place-based, and accessible curriculum for learning watershed concepts and water career awareness for students in the middle school grades. The lesson includes online, classroom, and field activities. Students use a professional-grade online GIS modeling resource, simulations, sensors, and other interactive resources to collect environmental data and analyze their local watershed issues. We want to increase awareness of and engagement with watershed concepts and career pathways in learners nationwide.
Saturdays starting late September ending late October students will meet either online or in the Field. Students will attend six sessions (Four sessions in Field and Two online) and apply best practice to subjects of interest.
Session 1 Discover Your Local Watershed- Stream Study—What Do Stream Organisms Tell Us?
Session 2 Stream Study—What Does the Chemistry Tell Us? The Water We Drink
Session 3 Runoff Simulation and Exploring my Schoolyard
Session 4 Investigating My Schoolyard and Model Improvement to my school yard
Session 5 Road Map to Action - Communicating My Action Plan
Field Trips: Free Library of Philadelphia, Schuykill Environment Center, Fairmount Water Works and maybe the Stroud Water Research Center if time allows (schedule is subject to change)
Sponsored by Concord Consortium, Essential Elements of the Community, Inc, Millersville University, and the Stroud Water Research Center
