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Environmental Education Grant Profiles for the Year 2009
Wissahickon Restoration Volunteers
Friends of Deckers Creek
The Elizabeth River Project
Prince George County Board of Education
Partnership of the Delaware Estuary Inc.
Ohio County School
Sweet Briar College
North Bay, LLC
Rivanna Conservation Society
Wissahickon Restoration Volunteers, 3721 Midvale Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19129, amount awarded: $17449
Project Title: Wissahickon Restoration Volunteers Crew Leader Education Program
Wissahickon Restoration Volunteers (WRV) is an ecology-oriented non-profit organization that works with community volunteers to restore the natural environment of the Wissahickon Valley Park in Philadelphia. WRV Advisory Board members and staff will collaborate on creating a comprehensive environmental education curriculum for volunteers interested in becoming Crew Leaders.
The volunteer Crew Leaders will work with volunteer groups from high schools, colleges, and religious and service organizations to restore the Wissahickon Valley Park. The role of the crew leaders is critical in educating volunteer groups about the value of a restored environment in safeguarding water quality, maintaining a healthy ecosystem and providing recreational opportunities in a natural setting.
This project will focus on community stewardship and seek to involve the community in restoration efforts led by the Wissahickon Restoration Volunteers. The training will foster stewardship, accountability, and restoration ideals so that the trainees can become lifelong advocates of the environment.
Friends of Deckers Creek, PO Box 877, Dellslow, WV 26531, amount awarded: $21907
Project Title: Friends of Deckers Creek Clean Creek Program
The purpose of the Clean Creek Program (CCP) is to monitor the biological community and water quality of the watershed and to disseminate the findings to the general public. This instrumental program is the only ongoing Friends of Deckers Creek (FODC) project designed to track trends in the water quality and biological communities of streams in the Deckers Creek watershed.
Data collected and published through this program are used to educate the public about the impact of acid mine drainage (AMD) and other environmental pollutants, steer restoration efforts, to evaluate restoration success, and to educate community members, leaders, and students on the steps being made to improve current conditions and to protect Deckers Creek in the future.
This model project is an example of community stewardship in that is serves to educate the community about the major anthropogenic threats to the Deckers Creek watershed and to encourage community engagement to restore the creek. CCP also encourages local business members to take an active part in environmental stewardship by allowing them to sponsor a section of the creek that we monitor through the CCP.
The Elizabeth River Project, 475 Water Street, Suite 103A, Portsmouth, VA 23704, amount awarded: $28121
Project Title: The Elizabeth River Project
The Princess Elizabeth will capture the imagination of 25,000 school children through story-telling followed by problem-based lessons on river stewardship, reaching 100 schools in four cities. The Elizabeth River project also will launch the world’s first floating wetland classroom. The learning barge will offer evocative exploration of its sun and wind power, a live wetland, seining pool, grey water and compost systems.
Live History Presentations: Robin Dunbar will appear at schools, civic meetings, libraries and festivals with a treasure box of maps and river artifacts. She will present interactive lessons correlated to Virginia Standards of Learning and the swimmable, fishable campaign. Lessons will include river ecology, aquatic life, conservation, alternative energies, and green practices. The Elizabeth River project will recruit schools to conduct year-long problem-solving projects related to river stewardship, including growing wetlands in the classroom for placement on restoration sites.
This project will offer evocative exploration of its sun and wind power, a live wetland, seining pool, grey water and compost systems. The moving field station will train 20 teachers and empower 3,250 students with critical thinking about alternative energy and sustainable urban watersheds.
Prince George County Board of Education, 6001 Good Luck Rd., Riverdale, Md 20737, amount awarded: $7720
Project Title: Project Teaching and Learning with Monarchs
The purpose of Project Teaching and Learning with Monarchs is to train K-12 educators in Prince George's County, MD about the biology, history and ecology of the Monarch Butterfly through the workshop. This growing network teaches teachers to use monarch butterflies to teach a variety of concepts and skills, including the need to be responsible stewards of the environment.
This workshop will: a) providing them with skills necessary to facilitate the raising of Monarch Butterflies in their own classrooms by their own students, b) develop student interest in environmental education through hands-on engagement with Monarch Butterflies, c) contribute to successful protection of Monarch Butterflies habitat through environmental education and d) encourage teachers and students to become stewards of the environment.
Partnership of the Delaware Estuary Inc., 110 So. Poplar St., Suite 202, Wilmington, DE 19801, amount awarded: $16001
Project Title: The 2009/2010 Delaware Estuary Teacher's Watershed Workshop
The Delaware Estuary Teachers' Watershed Workshop initiative educates kindergarten through 12th grade teachers about the issues that impact the Delaware Estuary. Through a mixture of laboratory and field
experiences teachers will be provided with the opportunity to explore the difference between urban and rural
watersheds and compare the upper portions of the Delaware Estuary with the mouth of the bay. Teachers will
gain hands-on experience performing, water chemistry tests, identifying macro-invertebrates, sampling fish
populations and studying wetland functions.
Ohio County School, 2203 National Rd., Wheeling, WV 26003, amount awarded: $11250
Project Title: Green Project and Growing Well
The purpose of Project Green and Growing Well is to build an awareness of environmental and health issues
facing our young generation and to help these students assume responsibility for launching an Environmental Stewardship Community Project. An additional focus of this project is the dissemination of information to the general public in order to make them participants in a greener and healthier community environment.
Sweet Briar College, 134 Chapel Rd, Sweet Briar, VA 24595, amount awarded: $15066
Project Title: Schools for Pools
The Schools for Pools project will connect strategically chosen schools in Central Virginia with partnering hosts who will provide access to local wetland sites that will provide ideal outdoor classroom settings for a series of interdisciplinary field studies to be completed by the students under the supervision of the specialist and their respective teachers. Students and teachers will participate in directed field investigations of vernal pool wetlands as showcases of environmental dynamics, ecology and conservation concepts, and unique wildlife habitats.
The purpose of the Schools for Pools project is to promote community stewardship of vernal pools and related wetland environments and to improve the teacher skills of regional educators on the environmental values and conservation issues associated with protecting these fragile ecosystems. The classroom and environment-base activities will increase awareness of these wetland environments as undervalued wildlife habitats. The new knowledge and skills gained by students, teachers and their networks of family, neighbors and local leaders will encourage them to be more responsible in recognizing the value of these environments in the landscape.
Specifically, this project will focus on addressing the informational need as a pilot in the Central Virginia region. Students and teachers participating in the project will study and asses an "adopted" wetland habitat and bring the importance of this sensitive environment to the attention of their local communities and leaders.
North Bay, LLC, 11 Horseshoe Point Lane, North East, MD 21901, amount awarded: $49,846
Project Title: Estuarine Issues Investigation and Action
NorthBay will train 60 middle school teachers in week long immersion sessions to encourage middle school teachers to use estuarine issue investigation as an engaging vehicle for teaching core curricular subject. This
will ultimately produce environmentally and estuarine literate students producing environmental and estuarine stewards.
This project will train teachers in estuarine issue investigations focused on the Chesapeake Bay region. Four main objectives are 1) teachers will realize the benefit of using the Investigating and Evaluating Environmental Issues and Actions (IEEIA) curriculum model in their classrooms; 2) teachers will understand the investigating and evaluating environmental issues and actions process; 3) teachers will implement estuarine issue investigation in the classroom, and 4) teachers will know how to implement student-led estuarine investigation and stewardship projects.
Specifically, this project will train teachers in estuarine issue investigation focused on the Chesapeake Bay region. Teachers are expected to take newly acquired skills into classrooms to motivate and teach students. They will implement the IEEIA and Estuaries 101 method in the classroom, which is designed for students to think critically and problem-solve based on their own inquiries about the environment.
Rivanna Conservation Society, PO Box 1501, Charlottesville, VA 22902, amount awarded: $20000
Project Title: Youth Environmental Education Programs
The Teacher Watershed Summit will connect area teachers with professionals and experts from diverse
academic backgrounds for a full day of premier environmental education. The Summit will also offer roundtable
discussions amongst the teachers for sharing what activities and approaches do and do not work in order to help
teachers meet Virginia's Meaningful Watershed Environmental Education (MWEE) requirements. The Youth
Education Programs and Youth Watershed Summit will accomplish the agency's criteria for environmental
education inasmuch as the Rivanna Conservation Society (RCS) provides a host of opportunities for young
people to engage with the watershed through water monitoring, river paddles and stream bank clean ups.
The Teacher Watershed Summit is an annual educational conference designed to meet the federal Standards of Learning (SOL) and the Virginia MWEE requirements. The Youth Watershed Summit on World Water Monitoring Day is an annual full day interactive outdoor event that includes opportunities for chemical and biological water quality monitoring, tree ring and tree canopy assessments, Enviro-Scape teaching/learning opportunities, and environmental art. The Youth Environmental Education Program is a combination of field trips and interactive programs including biological monitoring opportunities, along with river paddles and stream bank clean ups.
Specifically, this project will focus on the youth programs which include the Fourth Annual Teacher Watershed Summit, the Second Annual Youth Watershed Summit on World Water Monitoring Day and Youth Education Programs. These programs and events are specifically designed to bring young people, of all ethnic and socio economic background, to the river's edge. By providing both progressive in-class and field experiences, we will enrich the next generation of water conservationists with the knowledge and concern necessary to protect our waters far into the future.
