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Presents. Watershed: A Lifetime of Stewardship. E.B. James Mark Scallion Project Coordinator Center Director. Rock Creek Park DC Fisheries and Wildlife Maryland Department of Natural Resources

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  1. Presents Watershed: A Lifetime of Stewardship E.B. James Mark Scallion Project Coordinator Center Director

  2. Rock Creek Park DC Fisheries and Wildlife Maryland Department of Natural Resources Washington College Center for Environment and Society Maryland Ornithological Society NOAA B-WET

  3. The Grant • Provides funds for program equipment • Provides funds for running program • Ability to increase the number of students Audubon MD-DC reaches • Ability to create and deliver a new, high quality program providing a meaningful Chesapeake Bay Watershed experience

  4. The Idea • To teach a science based curriculum about the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and environmental stewardship from a platform of birdwatching and fishing.

  5. To foster in students a meaningful life-long interaction withthe Chesapeake Bay Watershed.

  6. The program components • Information session for teachers • Teacher-led classroom activities • Audubon-led classroom activities • Teacher-led extension activities • Audubon-led field experience • Audubon-led in class field experience debriefing • Teacher-led classroom presentation activity • Audubon facilitated mentoringprogram

  7. Core Learning Goals Scientific Inquiry The student will analyze data to make predictions, decisions, or form conclusions. (CLG 1.4.2) Science Content The student will analyze the relationships among organisms and between organisms and abiotic factors (abiotic/biotic factors: space, soil, water, air, temperature, food, light, organisms; relationships: predator – prey, parasite – host, mutualism, commensalism). (CLG 3.5.1) Mathematics 4.12.1a design and/or conduct an investigation that uses statistical methods to analyze data and communicate results (CLG 3.1.1)

  8. Focus • Audubon-led classroom activities • Audubon-led field experience • Audubon-led in class field experience debriefing • Audubon facilitated mentoring program

  9. Audubon-led classroom activities • Habitat • Map • Activity

  10. Classroom Resources • Student Journal • Habitat Booklet • Chesapeake Timeline • Biogeochemical Booklet

  11. Field Trip • Fishing Component • Birding Component

  12. Field Trip Resources • Collection Equipment • Water Testing Equipment • Field Guides • Binoculars • GPS Units • Digital Cameras • Fishing Gear • Waders

  13. In-School • Presentation of findings • Use of Technology • Field Experience Wrap-Up • Mentoring Preparation

  14. Mentoring • Skills Transferred • High school students teaching elementary students how to bird and fish • Teaching is ownership

  15. Participating schools • Digital Harbor High School (Baltimore, MD). • Our Lady of the Rosary High School (Baltimore MD). • Easton High School (Easton, MD). • St. Michaels High School (St. Michaels, MD). • Sidwell Friends (Washington DC).

  16. Statistics • 76 Programs • 21 High School Classrooms • 12 Elementary School Classrooms • 8 Audubon Staff Members

  17. Next Steps • Year two of programs • Washington DC • Mentoring Component • Program Evolution

  18. Questions? Thank you!

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