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Students working on designing a 3-D macroinvertebrate model

Life Lessons in Three Dimensions: Students, Stroud Center, Retired Teacher Collaborate

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By creating these teaching tools for other students to learn about freshwater ecosystems, the students developed their own curiosity about their outdoor environment.

Video still of Milton Hershey School students deploying a water-quality-monitoring sensor.

Computer Science Students Get Their Boots Wet

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As part of the Milton Hershey School’s Agriculture and Environmental Education pathway, the students are taking the computer science skills they learn in the classroom and applying them to real-world problems in the field.

Photo of two men building an environmental monitoring sensor

FREE 2-Day Training in DIY Environmental Sensing Networks for Streams and Rivers

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Presented in Partnership With the Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring at Dickinson College
Sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency

A two-day training session on building and deploying do-it-yourself wireless stream sensor stations using the Mayfly Data Logger to collect real-time data.

Woman sorting macroinvertebrates at a stream ecology workshop

Putting the “S” in STEM – Bioassessments and Water Chemistry to Determine Stream Health

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Presented in Partnership with Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and the Chester County Intermediate Unit. Are you looking for new resources to engage 21st century learners? This workshop is for you! This workshop is the first in a two-part series.

Water SCIENCE

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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 to engineering practices for water resources. This project targets schools…

Stream School for New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection

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Stroud Water Research Center provides expertise in two sets of two-day stream ecology trainings for AmeriCorps New Jersey Watershed Ambassadors and citizen water-quality-monitoring volunteers. NJ DEP utilizes volunteer data, at…

Fourth graders taking tree measurements

Learning Leading to Action: Young Heroes Protecting Our Waterways

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Students are not only learning how to protect our waterways; they are also conducting their own scientific research or restoring healthy streams — or sometimes both.

Model My Watershed Featured in STEM for All Video Showcase

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The video presentation highlights the Teaching Environmental Sustainability – Model My Watershed project to promote watershed stewardship, geospatial literacy, and systems thinking.

Child with leaf. Photo by Gabby Orcutt on Unsplash

Education Partnership Named as a Success Story

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The Stroud Center’s partnership with the Watershed Education Training Institute (WETi) at Millersville University allows WETi to offer high-quality watershed curricula and instruction.

Isopoda (aquatic sowbugs)

Test Your Skills With the #MysteryMacro Quiz

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Want a fun way to learn about freshwater macroinvertebrates? Check out the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission #MysteryMacro quiz featuring photos by Dave Funk.