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 – 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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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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Building District Capacity for Environmental Literacy and MWEEs in Delaware
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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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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Consortium for Scientific Assistance to Watersheds (C-SAW)
SEducation, research, and watershed restoration staff provided technical assistance to statewide conservation groups in effective watershed assessment, monitoring, and restoration ...
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Delivering Meaningful, Safe, and Accessible Watershed Education
Funded by: Pa. Department of Environmental Protection This project expands meaningful and inclusive environmental STEM programs, including online stream study ...
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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 ...
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Educators designed and created aquatic macroinvertebrate touch tanks to create effective, culturally responsive, and inclusive learning environments for all audiences ...
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This statewide project builds capacity for environmental literacy and stewardship of the Chesapeake Bay and other watersheds in Pennsylvania by ...
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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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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 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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This project engages girls and girl identifying individuals in a set of four programs providing experiences in watershed STEM careers ...
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This project serves Scout, school, and public audiences with on-the-water education through fishing and canoeing programs to improve equitable access ...
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Dockstader Foundation Educators collaborated with local schools and school districts to design and construct outdoor learning spaces on school grounds ...
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With a theme of climate change literacy within the White Clay Creek watershed, this project delivers a series of canoeing, ...
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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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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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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 on ...
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Leaf Pack Stream Ecology Kit and International Network
This international program, which is bilingual in English and Spanish, engages students, teachers, families, and the public in water quality ...
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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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Stroud Water Research Center continues to maintain and update the Model My Watershed® web application. Funded by: Stroud Water Research ...
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This project assists School District of Philadelphia teachers leading outdoor and environmental after school enrichment programs by providing ongoing professional ...
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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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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. Educators provided professional development ...
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Source to Sea Explorer Curriculum
Stroud Center educators are collaborating with Connect Ocean to create a Source to Sea curriculum that will be distributed internationally ...
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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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The Water Quality App for Apple and Android devices received updates to its macroinvertebrate digital field guide, pollution tolerance index, ...
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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 ...
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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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Web Tools Advancing Knowledge and Stewardship of Fresh Water WikiWatershed® is a web toolkit to support citizens, conservation practitioners, municipal ...
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The Andes Amazon Initiative was funded by the Moore Foundation to offer workshops in Peru and Costa Rica, to those ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 is a weeklong river trek for 12 high school students from across all counties that touch ...
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This project combines sound science, public policy, and open dialogue in an effort to help municipalities in the Schuylkill River ...
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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 ...
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Stroud Water Research Center provided the educational programming for Reading the River: The Science of the Schuylkill, for the 11th ...
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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 ...
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Educators engage Boy Scouts of America, Girl Scouts USA, and adult educators in a series of watershed STEM experiences, including ...
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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 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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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 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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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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Funding for the Peru Project was provided by a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Stroud Water Research ...
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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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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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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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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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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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“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 ...