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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Advancing Education Programs and Community Outreach With Oxford Area Audiences
Continued support enables Stroud™ Water Research Center to further expand education and outreach to the local Oxford community and schools ... Read More
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Capacity-Building for Girls-in-STEM Watershed Education
This project expanded meaningful and inclusive education in water-focused environmental science, technology, engineering, and math (E-STEM) for K–12 girls across ... Read More
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Consortium for Scientific Assistance to Watersheds (C-SAW)
Stroud Center educators and scientists provided technical assistance to county conservation districts, municipal environmental advisory committees,watershed associations, and citizen action ... Read More
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Consortium for Scientific Assistance to Watersheds (C-SAW)
Stroud Water Research Center educators, scientists, and restoration staff provided technical assistance to county conservation districts, municipal environmental advisory committees, ... Read More
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Stroud Water Research Center’s education department has developed numerous watershed education products that are marketed and available nationally. Products Available ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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This statewide project builds capacity for environmental literacy and stewardship of the Chesapeake Bay and other watersheds in Pennsylvania by ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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Lawrenceville School Partnership for Student Water Quality Monitoring of Shipetaukin Creek
Educators are partnering with The Lawrenceville School to create and implement opportunities for students to study water quality impacts onthe ... Read More
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Leaf Pack Stream Ecology Kit and Network
This international program, which is bilingual in English and Spanish, engages students, teachers, families, and the public in water quality ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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On-the-Water Education Programs
Stroud Center educators provided on-the-water canoeing watershed education experiences on local streams, lakes, and reservoirs for schools, Scouts, community groups, ... Read More
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This statewide project improved environmental literacy and stewardship of K–12 students by building capacity across Pennsylvania for high-quality environmental education ... Read More
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Educators provided feedback on technical plans, guidance, and resources to develop a cohesive system of professional development and classroom materials ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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Educators sampled school districts and conducted extensive research on sustainable school recognition programs across the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, with a ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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Schuylkill Acts & Impacts is a weeklong river trek for 12 high school students from across all counties that touch ... Read More
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Educators engage and empower K–12 youth from Boy Scouts of America (BSA) and Girl Scouts of the USA in environmental ... Read More
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Educators delivered a series of hands-on, minds-on events to engages Boy Scouts of America, Girl Scouts USA, and adult educators ... Read More
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Stream Study Programs for 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 ... Read More
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In response to COVID-19 emergency learning conditions, educators created and delivered new and modified watershed education resources for use in ... Read More
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Water Quality Mobile App Software Updates
The Water Quality App for mobile devices received updates to the macroinvertebrate digital field guide and pollution tolerance index and ... Read More
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Watershed Awareness Using Technology and Environmental Research for Sustainability (WATERS)
Educators developed and piloted a new national curriculum and extensive learning resources using universal design for learning (UDL) principles in ... Read More
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Watershed STEM Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience (MWEE) After-School Programming
Educators engaged high-needs students from four 21st Century Community Learning Center (CCLC) sites in Pa. through an eeBLUE grant program ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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Web Tools Advancing Knowledge and Stewardship of Fresh Water WikiWatershed® is a web toolkit to support citizens, conservation practitioners, municipal ... Read More
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The Andes Amazon Initiative was funded by the Moore Foundation to offer workshops in Peru and Costa Rica, to those ... Read More
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The Coatesville Youth Initiative Brandywine Trek is a youth leadership and environmental awareness program that combines outdoor learning over five ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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As a partner in this cooperative agreement with the National Park Service and Sultana Education Foundation, Stroud Center educators continue ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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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, ... Read More
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Stroud Water Research Center educators visited several elementary schools within the city of Newark to introduce them to the concepts ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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Stroud Water Research Center education and technical staff created STEM technologies to enhance public capabilities in citizen science. Partnerships with ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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Stroud Water Research Center translated into Spanish the manuals for its popular Leaf Pack Experiment and Watershed Tour® and in ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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Stroud Water Research Center educators and scientists launched Model My Watershed, an innovative, three-year program to develop, test, and disseminate ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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A Three-Week Trek Across the New York City Water Supply System In the summer of 2007, six students from New ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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This project combines sound science, public policy, and open dialogue in an effort to help municipalities in the Schuylkill River ... Read More
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Members of Stroud Water Research Center's education department participated in the Schuylkill Learning Community, an association of William Penn Foundation ... Read More
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Stroud Water Research Center provided the educational programming for Reading the River: The Science of the Schuylkill, for the 11th ... Read More
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Stroud Center staff and members of the Society for Freshwater Science Education and Diversity Committee held a Leaf Pack workshop ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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In partnership with Hudson Basin River Watch and Riverkeeper, Stroud Water Research Center educators trained teachers in the New York ... Read More
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Stroud Water Research Center educators and scientists presented their work through a series of lectures. These lectures covered topics such ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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How Best Management Practices Are Protecting Your Drinking Water Twenty educators participated in a week-long summer program of field experiences ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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Funding for the Peru Project was provided by a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Stroud Water Research ... Read More
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Working with teachers at three Media, Pennsylvania, schools, Stroud Water Research Center educators demonstrated to hundreds of secondary school students ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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A partnership with multiple organizations to plant re-establish streamside forests in southeastern Pennsylvania. We have worked with ERTHNXT (formerly the ... Read More
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This project connects citizens to the idea that healthy forests make healthy streams and, thus, healthy trout populations. Funding supports ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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Stroud Water Research Center’s education department is collaborating with the Concord Consortium on a project to introduce middle school students ... Read More
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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, ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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“Welcome to Our Neighborhood, White Clay Creek Watershed” Packets were developed in partnership with the Education Subcommittee of the White ... Read More