Destination: Watershed
Destination: Watershed is a five-part series-based program that focuses
on students' connections to their local watershed. This fall the theme is connecting
elementary school students to their watershed by studying the animals that call its many habitats
home. The program includes:
- An
engaging classroom visit and introductory lesson for students
led by the Museum's professional educators,
- A
comprehensive teacher workshop to provide your teachers
with valuable lessons and information to share with their class as their students
journey though
Destination: Watershed, and
-
Three expeditions led by Museum Educators for students including
such an exploratory journey to the Patuxent National Wildlife Refuge to learn
about migratory birds and local wetlands; a field study aboard
a boat on a local river; and an adventure connecting tropical rainforests to
our local watershed.
Each teacher will receive a comprehensive Destination: Watershed
Curriculum Guide including pre- and post-activities for each field
trip as well as detailed scientific curriculum background.
Each student
will receive a Destination: Watershed Student Field Journal
which contains activities to complete on each field trip in addition to creative
writing and reflection exercises.
In July 2002, the governors of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, along with Mayor Anthony Williams of Washington, DC, signed the voluntary Chesapeake 2000 Agreement. One of the mandates set by this agreement was to "
Provide students and teachers alike with opportunities to directly participate in local watershed restoration and protection projects, and to support stewardship efforts in schools and on school property."
Destination: Watershed makes it easy to fulfill this mandate though its hands-on expeditions and National Science Content Standards-based lessons.
Discovery Creek welcomes the participation of your school. For more
information about the program, please contact the Watershed Programs Manager
at (202) 337-5111.
To make a donation in support of this vital program, please
click
here.
