Environmental Literacy
Goal
Enable students in the region to graduate with the knowledge and skills to act responsibly to protect and restore their local watershed.
Importance
The future well-being of the Chesapeake Bay watershed will soon rest in the hands of its youth—more than three million students in kindergarten through 12th grade. Establishing strong, targeted environmental education programs now provides a vital foundation for these future watershed stewards.
Outcomes
Student
In the coming decades, the public will be called upon to understand complex environmental issues and be aware of the environmental effects that individual decisions can have on local and global scales. Creating a scientifically informed public will require a concerted approach to environmental education, which will require our support of rigorous, inquiry based instruction and meaningful watershed educational experiences.
- Outcome:
- Continually increase students’ age-appropriate understanding of the watershed through participation in teacher-supported, meaningful watershed educational experiences and rigorous, inquiry-based instruction, with a target of at least one meaningful watershed educational experience in elementary, middle and high school depending on available resources.
- Lead Goal Implementation Team:
- Fostering Chesapeake Stewardship Goal Implementation Team (GIT 5)
- Lead Workgroup:
- Education Workgroup
- Contact:
- Shannon Sprague (410) 267-5664
- Management Strategy:
- 2018 2019 Students Management Strategy [PDF, 460.7 KB]
- Strategy Review System Update:
- Narrative | Presentation
- Archived Strategy Review System Documents:
- View Archived Strategy Review System Documents
Sustainable Schools
In the coming decades, the public will be called upon to understand complex environmental issues and be aware of the environmental effects that individual decisions can have on local and global scales. Creating a scientifically informed public will require a concerted approach to environmental education, which will require our support of sustainability efforts at schools.
- Outcome:
- Continually increase the number of schools in the region that reduce the impact of their buildings and grounds on their local watershed, environment and human health through best practices, including student-led protection and restoration projects.
- Lead Goal Implementation Team:
- Fostering Chesapeake Stewardship Goal Implementation Team (GIT 5)
- Lead Workgroup:
- Education Workgroup
- Contact:
- Shannon Sprague (410) 267-5664
- Management Strategy:
- 2018 2019 sustainable schools management strategy [PDF, 671.4 KB]
- Strategy Review System Update:
- Narrative | Presentation
- Archived Strategy Review System Documents:
- View Archived Strategy Review System Documents
Environmental Literacy Planning
In the coming decades, the public will be called upon to understand complex environmental issues and be aware of the environmental effects that individual decisions can have on local and global scales. Creating a scientifically informed public will require a concerted approach to environmental education, which will require our support of efforts to advance environmental literacy.
- Outcome:
- Each participating Bay jurisdiction should develop a comprehensive and systemic approach to environmental literacy for all students in the region that includes policies, practices and voluntary metrics that support the environmental literacy Goals and Outcomes of this Agreement.
- Lead Goal Implementation Team:
- Fostering Chesapeake Stewardship Goal Implementation Team (GIT 5)
- Lead Workgroup:
- Education Workgroup
- Contact:
- Shannon Sprague (410) 267-5664
- Management Strategy:
- 2018 2019 environmental literacy planning management strategy [PDF, 792.7 KB]
- Strategy Review System Update:
- Narrative | Presentation
- Archived Strategy Review System Documents:
- View Archived Strategy Review System Documents