Welcome, educators! We hope you will find these resources helpful as you plan and facilitate ELS activities and your own Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences with your classes. Please share these resources!

Aquatic Macroinvertebrates

• Stroud Water Research Center – Macroinvertebrate Identification, Photos, 
• At Home with Nature – Macroinvertebrate Mayhem – videos and activities

Environmental Literacy Resources

• 2018-2019 Environmental Literacy Planning and Management Strategy 
  • Logic Plan and Work Plan – https://www.chesapeakebay.net/documents/22069/2018-2019_environmental_literacy_students_workplan.pdf
• Gateway to Green – Website with a variety of Environmental Education Resources for Pennsylvania including Environmental Justice and Outdoor Learning Spaces
• Pennsylvania Environmental Education Act   
• Pennsylvania Environmental Literacy Plan (Statewide) 
• Pennsylvania Pathways to Green Schools – information on supporting green and sustainable schools in PA

Funding

• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) – Environmental Education Grants – Often due in November
• NOAA Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) grants
  • Grants for MWEE programs and training across the Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay regions
• Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection – Environmental Education Grants – Often due in November
• Pennsylvania Sea Grant

Local Partners and Places for Outdoor Field Experiences and/or Action Projects

• Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve – native plants shop and garden, New Hope
• Bucks County Audubon Society – New Hope
• Bucks County Conservation District [*Supplies library for borrowing coming soon.]
• Churchville Nature Center – Churchville
• Cooks Creek Watershed Association – Upper Bucks
• Delaware Canal State Park – can also provide on-water experiences
• Heritage Conservancy
  • Croydon Woods Nature Preserve, Croydon
  • Fuller/Pursell Nature Preserve (Jere Knight Trail), Springfield Township
  • Hart’s Woods Preserve, Doylestown
  • Jackson Pond Preserve, Buckingham
• Fairmount Water Works – Philadelphia
• Neshaminy Watershed Association
• Nockamixon State Park – Quakertown
• Peace Valley Nature Center – Chalfont
• Penn State Extension – Bucks County
  • Master Watershed Stewards
  • Master Gardeners
• Pennsylvania State Agencies (General Sites)
  • Department of Agriculture
  • Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
  • Fish and Boat Commission
• Silver Lake Nature Center – Bristol
• Snipes Farm and Education Center – Morrisville 
• Tyler State Park – Newtown
• Other
  • Bay Backpack Field Studies
  • Delaware River Basin Commission – may be useful source of data
  • Find Your Park
  • Local Environmental Advisory Councils – connected to a borough or township
  • Local Garden Groups
  • Pennsylvania Association of Environmental Educators – Find EE Near Me

STEELS Standards

• PDE STEELS Hub
• Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
• NGSS 3-Dimensional Learning
• OpenSciEd (open-source curriculum designed for NGSS)
• BSCS 5E Learning

Watersheds and Water Quality

• At Home with Nature – “What is a watershed?” Featuring the Enviroscape – videos and activities
• Bucks County GIS – great for mapping projects and assessing land use
• Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEEs) – To download the guide and find more information 
  • NOAA-Online MWEE 101 training
• Chesapeake Exploration
• Model my Watershed is a great tool using mapping and land use date to evaluate current stormwater runoff impacts and allows for simulations of different scenarios. 
• Monitor My Watershed
• Rain drop simulation 
• Watershed Address – by USGS
• WikiWatershed Middle and High School Curriculum

Other Resources

• Alliance for Watershed Education – Collaborative partnership of 23 organizations working to engage people in learning about and caring for the Delaware River Watershed
• At Home with Nature – Various videos and activities related to nature, watersheds, history, etc.
• Children and Nature Network – An excellent collection of resources, scientific papers, infographic pages, and activities. 
• Environmental Careers Resource Guide – Helps students to explore career paths in the environmental industry in science and beyond 
• Guide to Using Nature as a tool for Social-emotional learning (SEL) 
• North American Association for Environmental Educators – Informative newsletter
• Motus Wildlife Tracking System – Radio telemetry tags are used on wildlife ranging in size from butterflies, dragonflies, bats, songbirds and larger birds. The Motus system allows for passive monitoring of the migratory species across the world (mainly Western Hemisphere). There are three towers in Bucks County: one at Lake Nockamixon, one on Keystone Elementary School next to Croydon Woods Nature Preserve, and one on the campus of Bucks County Community College.
• Skype a Scientist
• Watershed is an Open Book – List of water-themed books from Fairmount Water Works.