NOAA B-WET / Watershed Education Resources

NOAA B-Wet / Watershed Education Grant

Registration Packet. Download and complete the NOAA/B-Wet Workshop Registration Packet.

SEA and Edmonds Community College Learn and Serve Environmental Anthropology Field (LEAF) School have received a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) B-WET / Watershed Education Grant. We are currently recruiting teachers, school districts and teacher-preparation programs for involvement in the program. Benefits for participants will include

For more information, please see the overview document (revised January 27, 2011) and/or contact Susie Richards, 360-929-2606 or through our Contact Us page.

Workshop Schedule

Below please find our currently scheduled workshops. You can download and complete the NOAA/B-Wet Workshop Registration Packet.

If you are a teacher / district administrator in one of these areas and are interested in participating and/or having your staff members participate, please contact us for further information. If you don’t see a workshop scheduled in your area – please know that we are currently booking workshops for Fall/Winter 2010-2011 – so please contact us about setting up a workshop in your area!

Below please find a list of our no-cost Winter and Spring 2011 NOAA B-WET workshops. All workshops run from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. A specific agenda (including directions to sites) will be sent to registered participants one week before the scheduled workshop. Day one of each program is held aboard the SEA 65-foot program vessel Indigo and day two will be held in various community partner sites, as noted below.

Date Workshop Location
March 5th and 6th Everett/Mukilteo
Special materials for this date:
Health of Puget Sound Institute Flyer
March 26th and 27th Seattle
May 14th and 15th Olympia
June 25th and 26th Bellingham

Photos from Kettle Falls 10/11-10/12 B-WET Training

on an expedition

Links to Review to Prepare for B-WET

What is meaningful watershed education?
sanctuaries.noaa.gov/news/bwet/docs/meaningful_definition.pdf

NOAA Ocean, Service and Education Curriculum
oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/curriculum.html

Ocean Explorer Curriculum
oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/edu/welcome.html#1

Marine Mammal Stranding Network
www.nwr.noaa.gov/Marine-Mammals/Stranding-Information.cfm

EPA Watershed Curriculum
www.epa.gov/adopt/resources/toprelated.html

Stormwater Education Toolkit (SET)
www.stormwater.ucf.edu/toolkit

NOAA Educational Resources

Columbia River Basin Research
www.cbr.washington.edu/index.html

Conservation Northwest is a nonprofit organization committed to connecting and protecting old-growth forests and other wild areas throughout the state of Washington and into British Columbia. They have a variety of potential volunteer projects, including Cascade Citizens Wildlife Monitoring Project and their Adopt-A-Wilderness program, that are amenable to the development of environmental service-learning projects.
www.conservationnw.org/

Curriculum for the Bioregion. Washington Center at The Evergreen State College is hosting a curriculum for the bioregion project that helps faculty to integrate sustainability across the undergraduate curriculum. The conference and events are good opportunities to meet potential higher education partners and the many of the resources on the website are applicable to K-12 audiences as well.
www.evergreen.edu/washcenter/project.asp?pid=62

Dungeness Crab, from Snohomish County Public Works, Surface Water Management
www.co.snohomish.wa.us/documents/Departments/Public_Works/
surfacewatermanagement/marine/dungcrab.pdf

Eelgrass, from Snohomish County Public Works, Surface Water Management
www.co.snohomish.wa.us/documents/Departments/Public_Works/
surfacewatermanagement/marine/eelgrass.pdf

Forage Fish, from Snohomish County Public Works, Surface Water Management
www.co.snohomish.wa.us/documents/Departments/Public_Works/
surfacewatermanagement/marine/2001_06ForageFish.pdf

"Give Water a Hand" Student Watershed Action Guide
www.uwex.edu/erc/gwah/pdf-files/actionguide/action.pdf

"Give Water a Hand" Teacher Guidebook
www.uwex.edu/erc/gwah/pdf-files/leadguide/leader.pdf

Learn and Serve Environmental Anthropology Field (LEAF) School. The LEAF School at Edmonds Community College is a service-learning program that integrates AmeriCorps into the college curriculum. Partnerships with tribes, governments, nonprofit organizations and business and industry provide students an opportunity to collectively work to make our local communities more sustainable while learning about human interactions with our ecosystem. LEAF School students are available to help assist teachers with the planning and to serve as mentors in the implementation of meaningful watershed education experiences. K-12 teachers and advanced high school students are also welcome to enroll for one or more intensive two-week summer programs and may be eligible for an AmeriCorps education award of $1,000-$2,362 after the completion of 300-900 hours of service.
www.edcc.edu/leaf
www.yesmagazine.org/for-teachers/teacher-stories/anthropology-101-how-to-change-the-world
www.stillysnofish.org/review/spring2007.pdf

Mathematics Across the Curriculum. The websites below are focused on strategies for integrating mathematics into courses across the college and university curriculum. Although the focus is on higher education, the resource pages will be valuable and many of the sample assignments could be adapted for the high school level. The faculty involved are also good candidates for a partnership with higher education. The LEAF School is featured in several sample projects.
www.mac3.amatyc.org/
www.edcc.edu/mac/
www.math.dartmouth.edu/~matc/

NatureMapping Activities and Data Collection Protocols
depts.washington.edu/natmap/education/

NOAA Lesson Plan Library
oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/lesson_plans.html

NOAA Multimedia pod casts / online videos
oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/yos/multimedia/multimedia.html

NOAA Ocean Service Education
oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/pd/welcome.html

Pacific Education Institute’s "Field Investigations: Using Outdoor Environments to Foster Student Learning of Scientific Process"
www.pacificeducationinstitute.org/resources/pdf/Field%20Investigation%20Guide%20updated%20April%202009.pdf

Place-Based Education Research
www.peecworks.org/PEEC/PEEC_Research/

Puget Sound Partnership Educational Resources
www.pugetsoundstartshere.org/resources/educational-resources/

Regional Fisheries Enhancement Groups. Regional fisheries enhancement groups engage local citizens in salmon restoration activities. Created by the Washington State Legislature in 1990, these groups are organized as nonprofit organizations and are an excellent resource for assistance with in-class instruction and service-learning activities in your local community. Visit the statewide website below to find your local fisheries enhancement group and spark a conversation about possible partnerships.
wdfw.wa.gov/about/volunteer/rfeg/

Restoration Ecology for Young Stewards (REYS). REYS is a project and inquiry-based curriculum with classroom activities and field trips designed to teach youth in grades 5-8 about the ecology of Puget Sound. The full curriculum is available for download and can be adapted to other regions of the state as well. Stilly-Snohomish Fisheries Enhancement Task Force is one of 14 regional groups focused on getting citizens involved in restoring fisheries and fish habitat.
www.stillysnofish.org/programs/education/reys.html

Sierra: Empty Sound
www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200911/whales.aspx

Staff Development Lesson Plan on "Poetry and Sense of Place"
www.carts.org/staff_poem.html

StreamNet – Fish Data for the Northwest
www.streamnet.org/about.html

Surf Your Watershed
cfpub.epa.gov/surf/locate/index.cfm

The Rivers Project – Stormwater Stenciling Projects and more
www.siue.edu/OSME/river/stenciling/stencil1.htm

Tides and currents lesson plans
oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/kits/currents/lessons/ready_set_drift.pdf

US Environmental Protection Agency – "Adopt your Watershed" Site
www.epa.gov/adopt/

US Environmental Protection Agency's "After the Storm" regarding stormwater runoff
www.epa.gov/weatherchannel/stormwater.html

US Environmental Protection Agency – Non-Point Pollution Resources
www.epa.gov/nps/eduinfo.html

US Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Information and Data – look for "My Environment" on bottom left of page – you can enter your zip code and a wide range of data regarding water issues, pollutants and other environmental measures for your specific location.
www.epa.gov/

US Environmental Protection Agency's Watershed Curriculum Links
www.epa.gov/adopt/resources/toprelated.html

US Geological Survey Water Resources
water.usgs.gov/education.html

Washington Campus Compact is a consortium of college and university presidents committed to civic engagement and service-learning. Washington Campus Compact’s Retention Project provides full-time AmeriCorps members to participating campuses to facilitate mentoring relationships between college students and at-risk youth in middle and high school. Retention Project members are available to help connect college students with your meaningful watershed education experiences.
www.wacampuscompact.org/

Washington on Water (WOW) is an online database for K-12 educators seeking marine education resources throughout Washington – from interior watersheds to the outer coast.
www.wsg.washington.edu/education/resources/

Watershed Information Network – Building Watershed Partnerships
www.ctic.purdue.edu/KYW/KYW.html

Watershed online quiz – test your watershed knowledge and learn the facts!
www.ctic.purdue.edu/KYW/Quizzes.html

on the shore