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Meaningful Watershed Education Experiences (MWEE)

Description:

Learn how to incoporate inquiry, student voice, civic action, and environmental/ecology learning into your classroom. The MWEE framework is designed to help educators think through the components that lead to meaningful learning and action in students' local environment. This session also addresses the Environmental Literacy and Sustainability standards and how they might be address in a STEELS-aligned science course.

Audience:

K-12 teachers and administrators, non-formal environmental educators

Session Goals and Outcomes:

Gain understanding and comfort with MWEE as a framework for watershed education
Increase the intent of non-formal and formal educators to partner to support K-12 watershed education
Create connections across the state for watershed education resources and partners

Session Outline:

Opening Activity (15 min)

Outdoor Observation (30 min)

Part 1: Framing the MWEE (45 min)

Break (15 min)

Part 2: Curriculum Anchor (45 min)

Lunch (1 hour)

Part 3: Issue Investigation & Stream Study (1.5 hours)

Break (15 min)

Part 4: Stewardship & Civic Action (45 min)

Part 5: Auditing Your MWEE (20 min)

Closing (15 min)

Participant Testimony:

"MWEE can be an effective way to incorporate STEELS into each grade band."

"MWEE is an excellent way to get students to think outside the box, engage in their communities, and be present in their own learning."

"We are doing things in our district that could easily be converted to MWEEs. It doesn't need to be a brand new idea/project for us. There are also so many supporting resources and people to help us."

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