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Grants and Partnerships

Education Improvement Tax Credit Partnerships

The Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) program allows Pennsylvania-based businesses to receive generous tax credits by contributing to qualified educational organizations. As a recipient of EITC funds, Stroud Water Research Center makes its school programs, field trips, and professional development workshops available at no or reduced cost to public school districts. Learn more

Education Projects

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Building Sustainable and Equitable Capacity Support Systems Towards Environmental Literacy for All K-12 Audiences Across Pa.

This 2022–2024 statewide project builds capacity for environmental literacy and stewardship of the Chesapeake Bay and other watersheds in Pennsylvania ...
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Consortium for Scientific Assistance to Watersheds (C-SAW)

Education, research, and watershed restoration staff provided technical assistance to statewide conservation groups in effective watershed assessment, monitoring, and restoration ...
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Costa Rica Study Abroad

Students from Virginia Wesleyan University in Virginia Beach joined Stroud Water Research Center for one week in the Área de ...
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Enhancing the Mobile Lab With Macroinvertebrate Discovery Tanks

This project makes the Watershed Education Mobile Lab more interactive with the addition of aquatic macroinvertebrate discovery tanks. The mobile ...
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Environmental Literacy and MWEE Capacity Building in Delaware School Districts

This project strengthens state and school district capacity to integrate environmental literacy (E-LIT) and Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEEs) into ...
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GIS-Based Professional Development: Helping K–12 Teachers Overcome Obstacles Due to COVID-19

This project builds capacity and advances environmental literacy efforts that integrate geospatial technology use among educators in the Lake Erie, ...
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Habitat Restoration and Outdoor Education in the Red Clay Consolidated School District (Del.)

Underutilized space on six school campuses within the school district is being restored through student-led Green Teams, district staff, and ...
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HerStory in STREAM and Independent School Projects

Through these programs, students explore careers, individual research, and service projects related to watershed education, such as graduation, honors, and ...
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Improving Schoolyards and the Stroud Center for Outdoor Environmental Education and Stewardship Across Southeast Pa.

Educators collaborated with local schools and school districts to design and construct outdoor learning spaces on school grounds while creating ...
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Improving Student and Teacher Engagement With National Parks of the Potomac River Watershed

Using a mix of methods, Stroud Center educators provide recommendations for the future of NPS watershed education. Data gathering efforts ...
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Lancaster Area Outdoor Learning Network Initiative

Educators planned and delivered teacher professional development in watershed education content and skills for Conestoga Valley, Ephrata, and Columbia school ...
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Leaf Pack Stream Ecology Kit and International Network

This bilingual international program engages students, teachers, families, and the public in water quality monitoring through the lens of aquatic ...
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Meaningful Watershed Investigations of the NPS White Clay Wild and Scenic River

A three-session model of watershed lessons is being delivered to fifth-grade students and teachers within the Red Clay Consolidated School ...
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On-the-Water Watershed Education Programs

To provide equitable access to safe outdoor aquatic recreation, raise awareness of related careers, and foster environmental awareness, Stroud Center ...
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Pathways to Education: Improving Safety and Accessibility to Outdoor Watershed Education

Stroud Water Research Center educators are enhancing accessibility and safety for on-site participants in Stroud Center education programs. Completed improvements, ...
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Professional Development for School District of Philadelphia Teachers Leading After School Enrichment Programs

This project assists School District of Philadelphia teachers leading outdoor and environmental after-school enrichment programs by providing ongoing professional development, ...
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Source to Sea Explorer Curriculum

Stroud Water Research Center educators are collaborating with Connect Ocean to create a Source to Sea curriculum that will be ...
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Streamside Forests Curriculum

Stroud Water Research Center educators designed new forestry lessons to meet the new Pennsylvania science, technology, engineering, environmental literacy, and ...
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Water Quality Monitoring and Education Enrichment

Educators are partnering with The Lawrenceville School to study water quality on their school campus and support the Leopold Scholars ...
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Watershed Awareness Using Technology and Environmental Research for Sustainability (WATERS)

For this project, educators develop and pilot a new national curriculum and extensive learning resources using principles of universal design ...
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Watershed Education for After-School Programs

Stroud Water Research Center educators are designing and delivering a set of 10 after-school programs with Avon Grove School District, ...
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Watershed Education Programs in Parochial Schools in the Greater Philadelphia Region

Professional development for teachers and K–12 field study experiences in watershed education for schools within the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Funded ...
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Watershed Education School Programs

With funding from a range of sources, educators deliver meaningful and inclusive environmental STEM programs. Programs are tailored to meet ...
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Watershed-Based Climate Change Education in the White Clay Creek Watershed

With a theme of climate change literacy within the White Clay Creek watershed, this project delivers a series of canoeing, ...
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Advancing Education Programs and Community Outreach – Oxford Area

Continued support enables the expansion of education and outreach in southeastern Pennsylvania, including K–12 school programs, out-of-school youth programs, educator ...
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Andes Amazon Initiative

The Andes Amazon Initiative was funded by the Moore Foundation to offer workshops in Peru and Costa Rica, to those ...
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Aquatic Macroinvertebrates on Location

For this project, Stroud Center educators create aquatic macroinvertebrate touch tanks to create effective, culturally responsive, and inclusive learning environments ...
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Brandywine River Trek

The Coatesville Youth Initiative Brandywine Trek is a youth leadership and environmental awareness program that combines outdoor learning over five ...
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Brandywine Watershed Discovery Day Camp

The Brandywine Watershed Discovery Day Camp, coordinated by the Coatesville Youth Initiative, is a youth leadership and environmental awareness program ...
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Bringing the Amazon Rainforest Home

Fifteen teachers from New Castle, Sussex, and Kent counties in Delaware worked with partners to develop curricula that not only ...
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Capacity-Building for Girls-in-STEM Watershed Education

This project expanded meaningful and inclusive education in water-focused environmental STEM for regional K–12 girl audiences, including pilot programs for ...
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Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail Contact Point, Program, and Training Initiative

As a partner in this cooperative agreement with the National Park Service and Sultana Education Foundation, Stroud Center educators continue ...
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Chesapeake Bay Watershed Workshops

In 2006 the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration awarded us a two-year grant to work with teachers in Bradford and ...
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Collaborative Research: Introducing Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) Science to Students and Teachers

The Critical Zone encompasses the external or near-surface Earth extending from the top of the vegetation canopy down to and ...
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Comprehensive Aquatic Learning Project

This collaborative partnership with Tyler Arboretum initiates teacher training programs in watershed research and education. We engaged teachers in our ...
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Critical Zone Geoscience Education

Stroud Water Research Center educators and scientists are teaching the principles and processes of the earth's critical zone to teachers, ...
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Educational Product Design

Stroud Water Research Center’s education department has developed numerous watershed education products that are marketed and available nationally. Products Available ...
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Effectively Engaging Audiences with Aquatic Macroinvertebrates Through Innovative Traveling Touch Tanks

Educators designed and created aquatic macroinvertebrate touch tanks to create effective, culturally responsive, and inclusive learning environments for all audiences ...
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Equity and Environmental Education (EE) in the Time of COVID-19 to Support EE Providers

Educators modified existing watershed education programming, created new programming, and piloted programming for virtual and in-person engagement during the coronavirus ...
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Expanding Environmental Literacy and Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience (MWEE) Implementation Capacity Across Pa.

This statewide project builds capacity for environmental literacy and stewardship of the Chesapeake Bay and other watersheds in Pennsylvania by ...
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First People of the First State: Restoring Our Ancestral Watershed

This project bridges Indigenous wisdom and environmental stewardship with science education to support conservation efforts in the Lenape’s ancestral watershed ...
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From Classroom to Creek

Stroud Water Research Center educators visited several elementary schools within the city of Newark to introduce them to the concepts ...
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From Scientific Research to Public Policy

This grant from the William Penn Foundation created a partnership to provide public officials and their constituents with the tools ...
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Girl Scouts of the USA and Boy Scouts of America Programs

Educators engage and empower K–12 youth involved in BSA in environmental badges, awards, service projects, and other advancements. Funded by: ...
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Girls-in-STEM Education Programs Fund

This fund supports ongoing efforts to engage and empower future female leaders in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) during ...
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Greening STEM Technologies: A Model for Advancing Do-It- Yourself (DIY) Environmental Sensing Networks to Support Citizen Science and Primary and Secondary Education

Stroud Water Research Center education and technical staff created STEM technologies to enhance public capabilities in citizen science. Partnerships with ...
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Growing Diversity and Inclusion in On-the-Water Education

This project supports expanding and sustaining inclusive on-the-water education through fishing and canoeing programs that prioritize female, marginalized, and economically ...
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Habitat Restoration and Outdoor Education in the Caesar Rodney School District

This project restores underutilized space on 10 public school campuses within the Caesar Rodney School District in Delaware, providing benefits ...
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Independent K-12 Student Research Projects

The establishment of this fund is to make staff support available to assist K-12 students interested in conducting independent scientific ...
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Integrating the Carbon and Water Cycles Within an Ecosystem Esthetic Approach to Landscapes

Stroud educators and scientists developed and implemented Your Livable Landscape: Cultivating an Ecosystem Esthetic, a collaborative education program that builds ...
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Leaf Pack Ambassadors

Stroud Water Research Center translated into Spanish the manuals for its popular Leaf Pack Experiment and Watershed Tour® and in ...
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Leaf Pack As a Water Quality Monitoring Tool

Stroud Water Research Center educators and entomologists joined together to test the effectiveness of leaf packs as easy-to-use monitoring devices ...
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Leaf Pack Network — Engaging and Linking Students in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

The goal of this project is to provide meaningful watershed experiences to underserved teachers and students in the Chesapeake Bay ...
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Leaf Pack Network® Goes to Costa Rica

This train-the-trainer Leaf Pack workshop consisted of employees and board members from Asociación de Amigos de la Naturaleza del Pacífico ...
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Leaf Pack Network® Goes to Peru

In partnership with the Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research (ACEER) based out of West Chester University, Stroud Water ...
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Learning to See, Seeing to Learning

This project continued to enhance the Macroinvertebrates.org. site, in addition to creating aquatic macroinvertebrate identification resources for learners, teachers, and ...
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Media Borough Stormwater Brochure

Stroud Water Research Center educators worked with Media Borough to produce “Stormwater, Trees and Our Drinking Water.” The purpose of ...
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Model My Watershed

Stroud Water Research Center continues to maintain and update the Model My Watershed® web application. Funded by: Stroud Water Research ...
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Mountaintop to Tap Photography and Journal Exhibit

The Mountaintop to Tap exhibit, which records the three-week trek of a diverse group of high school students who traced ...
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Mountaintop to Tap Trek

A Three-Week Trek Across the New York City Water Supply System In the summer of 2007, six students from New ...
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Pa. Environmental Literacy and Meaningful Watershed Education Experience (MWEE) Programming Capacity-Building

This statewide project improved environmental literacy and stewardship of K–12 students by building capacity across Pennsylvania for high-quality environmental education ...
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Pa. Gateway to Green Website Development

Stroud Center education and information services staff collaborated with state partners and Pa. Department of Education’s environment and ecology advisor ...
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Pa. Healthy Learning Environments Advisory Council to the Pa. Department of Health’s COVID-19 Initiative

Educators provided feedback on technical plans, guidance, and resources to develop a cohesive system of professional development and classroom materials ...
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Pennsylvania Environmental Literacy and MWEE Programming Capacity Building

The goal of this statewide project is to improve environmental literacy and stewardship of K-12 students by building capacity of ...
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Pennsylvania Trout in the Classroom Program Support

The Stroud Water Research Center education department provided staffing and other supports to the PA Trout in the Classroom (PA ...
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Programs for Underserved Audiences

Educators engage and empower K–12 youth involved in BSA in environmental badges, awards, service projects, and other advancements. These funds ...
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Quantify and Support Installation and Restoration of Best Management Practices (BMPs) at Schools to Contribute Directly to Bay Restoration Goals

Educators sampled school districts and conducted extensive research on sustainable school recognition programs across the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, with a ...
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School Study on the Effects of Outdoor Learning

This school-case-study research project surveyed and interviewed middle school students and teachers to determine if and how outdoor learning experiences ...
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Schuylkill Acts & Impacts

Schuylkill Acts & Impacts is a weeklong river trek for 12 high school students from across all counties that touch ...
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Schuylkill Buffer Strategies

This project combines sound science, public policy, and open dialogue in an effort to help municipalities in the Schuylkill River ...
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Schuylkill Learning Community

Members of Stroud Water Research Center's education department participated in the Schuylkill Learning Community, an association of William Penn Foundation ...
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Schuylkill Sojourn

Stroud Water Research Center provided the educational programming for Reading the River: The Science of the Schuylkill, for the 11th ...
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Scout Education Programs

Educators engage and empower K–12 youth from Boy Scouts of America (BSA) and Girl Scouts of the USA in environmental ...
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Scout Watershed STEM Education, Recreation, and Stewardship Programs and Educator Professional Development

Educators engage Boy Scouts of America, Girl Scouts USA, and adult educators in a series of watershed STEM experiences, including ...
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Scouts BSA Fish and Wildlife Merit Badge With New Online Learning Hybrid Format

Educators develop and implement new hybrid merit badge programming with online and in-person portions, including an online learning portal for ...
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Seneca Nation Water Protectors

Educators engaged with and empowered youth to become Water Protectors in the Allegany and Cattaraugus territories through summer camp programming ...
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SFS Leaf Pack Workshop

Stroud Center staff and members of the Society for Freshwater Science Education and Diversity Committee held a Leaf Pack workshop ...
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Stormwater Project: From Classroom to Creek

This was a program to educate middle school students about water issues in Chester, Ridley and Crum Creek watersheds. Stroud ...
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Stream School for New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection

Stroud Water Research Center provides expertise in two sets of two-day stream ecology trainings for AmeriCorps New Jersey Watershed Ambassadors ...
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Stream Study Programs for Pennsylvania Public Schools

Educators provided boots-in-the-water stream study programs for K–12 students, who learned about their impact on waterways and how they can ...
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Stream Watch: Leaf Pack as a Monitoring Tool

A project to help community volunteers assess the water quality of the White Clay Creek watershed. In tandem with leaf ...
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Streamkeepers

In partnership with Hudson Basin River Watch and Riverkeeper, Stroud Water Research Center educators trained teachers in the New York ...
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Stroud Seminar Series

Stroud Water Research Center educators and scientists presented their work through a series of lectures. These lectures covered topics such ...
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Stroud Water Research Center Streamside Classroom Project

This project enhances our streamside classroom along White Clay Creek at Stroud Water Research Center with the construction of three ...
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Summer Institute

How Best Management Practices Are Protecting Your Drinking Water Twenty educators participated in a week-long summer program of field experiences ...
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Summer Institute: How Best Management Practices Are Protecting Your Drinking Water

Stroud Water Research Center educators conducted a week-long summer program of field experiences and hands-on activities designed to convey effective ...
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Teaching Environmental Sustainability — Model My Watershed

Stroud Water Research Center educators and scientists continued to enhance the Model My Watershed application and refined the model curriculum ...
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The Peru Project

Funding for the Peru Project was provided by a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Stroud Water Research ...
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The Rain Barrel Project

Working with teachers at three Media, Pennsylvania, schools, Stroud Water Research Center educators demonstrated to hundreds of secondary school students ...
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The Science of Water Through the World of Art

This program at Point Lookout Preserve gives students and teachers new ways of thinking about stream ecosystems and stewardship through ...
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Thomas P. Bentley Muddy Boots Fund for Chester County Council, BSA Programs

The establishment of the Muddy Boots fund has made Stroud Water Research Center education programs free for youth in Chester ...
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Tree Plantings

A partnership with multiple organizations to plant re-establish streamside forests in southeastern Pennsylvania. We have worked with ERTHNXT (formerly the ...
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Trout Grow on Trees

This project connects citizens to the idea that healthy forests make healthy streams and, thus, healthy trout populations. Funding supports ...
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Upland Country Day School Curriculum Development

Stroud Water Research Center educators worked with Upland Country Day School in 2009 to develop quantitative watershed activities and curricula ...
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Virtual Learning Resources

In response to COVID-19 emergency learning conditions, educators created and delivered new and modified watershed education resources for use in ...
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Water Quality and Stream Health in Eastern Pennsylvania

Stroud Water Research Center educators, along with the Central Bucks School District, the Heritage Conservancy and the Peace Valley Nature ...
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Water Quality Mobile App

The Water Quality App for Apple and Android devices received updates to its macroinvertebrate digital field guide, pollution tolerance index, ...
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Water SCIENCE

Stroud Water Research Center’s education department is collaborating with the Concord Consortium on a project to introduce middle school students ...
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Watershed Citizenship Learning Community

In collaboration with Cabrini College, Stroud Center educators began development of Watershed Ecology and Watershed Citizenship curricula for non-science majors, ...
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Watershed Citizenship Learning Community, Cabrini College

In collaboration with faculty from Cabrini College, Stroud Water Research Center educators developed and taught courses in watershed ecology and ...
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Watershed Curriculum Development for Middle Schools

Stroud Water Research Center educators worked with faculty at the Upland Country Day School in Pennsylvania to develop, implement and ...
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Watershed education for Plain Sect Communities

In collaboration with Penn State Cooperative Extension and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Center and Extension educators taught students in four ...
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Watershed Education Mobile Lab

The new lab is a fully outfitted 14-foot box trailer ready to travel to and deliver education programs to underserved ...
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Watershed Education Programs While Canoeing

Stroud Center educators provided watershed education experiences while canoeing on local streams, lakes, and reservoirs for schools, Scouts, community groups, ...
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Watershed STEM Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience (MWEE) After-School Programming

Thanks to a generous eeBLUE grant program, educators engaged high-needs students from four 21st Century Community Learning Center (CCLC) sites ...
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Watershed Welcome Packet

“Welcome to Our Neighborhood, White Clay Creek Watershed” Packets were developed in partnership with the Education Subcommittee of the White ...
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West Chester Area School District Water Quality Education Center

Educators and restoration staff provided assistance for establishing three outdoor learning stations with interpretive signs, teacher professional development, watershed education ...
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WikiWatershed

Web Tools Advancing Knowledge and Stewardship of Fresh Water WikiWatershed® is a web toolkit to support citizens, conservation practitioners, municipal ...