Volume
50
Issue
4
DOI
10.34068/joe.50.04.14
Abstract
A middle school student and teacher watershed education project supports a large wetland restoration effort. It provides community-based, science education for urban, low-income, multicultural 6th-9th grade students and their teachers. This is a bottom-up approach to extending information to the local community about the restoration. The project includes teacher workshops, teacher and student restoration/water quality fieldwork with expert guidance, scientist classroom visits, an essay contest, and research cruise. The project is an example of using place-based, participatory learning toward achieving social-ecological resilience. It is a student education project with broader, community-wide Extension goals.
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Recommended Citation
Myers, M. R. (2012). A Student and Teacher Watershed and Wetland Education Program: Extension to Promote Community Social-Ecological Resilience. The Journal of Extension, 50(4), Article 14. https://doi.org/10.34068/joe.50.04.14
