Stormwater Environmental Literacy Project Jaclyn Austin Resource Teacher Office of Secondary Science Howard County Public School System Emily Perry Science Team Leader Thomas Viaduct Middle School Howard County Public School System
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1. Stormwater Environmental Literacy Project Jaclyn Austin
Resource Teacher Office of Secondary Science Howard County Public
School System Emily Perry Science Team Leader Thomas Viaduct Middle
School Howard County Public School System
2. HCPSS Essential Curriculum Grade 6 Earth Science K-12
Practices of Science & Engineering Next Generation Science
Standards Maryland Environmental Literacy Standards Meaningful
Watershed Educational Experience MSDE Student Service Learning
Requirement College & Career Readiness Standards
3. THE NEED: How can formal and informal Science educators
weave together the myriad of strands into sustained learning
experiences for students ?
4. Establish our Loom: Partnership
5. Partnership Est. 2003 Howard County Conservancy Located 15
min. from central Howard County Est. 1997 232 Acre farm turned
nature facility Howard County Public Schools Located Baltimore-
Washington corridor 77 Schools ~ 52,000 students
6. Partnership Common commitment to environmental literacy
& stewardship Conservancy additional partnership with Master
Gardeners, Parks & Recreations, Bird Club, Watershed Stewards,
Beekeepers supports school system efforts
7. Readying the Warp: Partnership Planning
8. Partner Planning HC Conservancy Volunteers Extensive summer
planning before launch Monthly planning BEFORE meet with teachers
Shared Google docs for planning purposes
9. Teacher Planning- Year 1 ELMS Adam Herod & Kim Mahle
ELMS Project Lead Teachers Teacher daily co-planning time Monthly
planning meeting w/ support staff 2 planning days out of building
Edmodo group and Google Docs digital support
10. Teacher Planning- Year 2 ELMS & TVMS Summer Planning
Teacher daily co-planning time Quarterly planning meeting w/
support staff 3 planning days out of building (subs provided)
Google Docs digital support
11. Teachers were able to collaborate with the secondary
science office, as well as the Howard County Conservancy through
on- site and off-site meetings, and Google drive. And our greatest
tool happened to be Google drive, where we were able to construct
and organize documents to support our efforts. Adam Herod 6th Grade
Science ELMS
12. Creating the Weft: Student Experiences
13. Problem Based Learning
14. Connected Learning
15. Webinars with Experts
16. "Working on the service learning project this year has been
so exciting! It has provided both myself and my students with
technological growth. Participating in the live webinars is brand
new to me and my students. Robert Stimmel 6th Grade Science Thomas
Viaduct Middle
17. Meaningful Watershed Experiences
18. Schoolyard Field Experience: Students photographing erosion
evidence
19. Schoolyard Field Experience: Investigating where site
stormwater goes
20. Schoolyard Field Experience: Function of site based
stormwater features
21. Schoolyard Field Experience: Students demonstrating role of
buffers
22. Belmont Field Experience: Historical Connections
23. Belmont Field Experience: Erosion & Weathering in
Cemetery
24. Belmont Field Experience: Students Building Catchment
devices
25. Belmont Field Experience: Students Building Catchment
devices
26. Belmont Field Experience: Students Building Catchment
devices
27. STAGE FOUR: Binding Off
28. NEXT STEPS New Model of Learning Watershed Wednesdays Grade
Level Team Collaboration Continuation at Elkridge Landing Expansion
to Thomas Viaduct
29. What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone
monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others
-Pericles
30. SESSION MATERIALS Follow your Presenters: @Jaclyn_Austin
@emily_fkperry Email: [email protected][email protected]
Visit the NSTA Learning Center to Download all
Materialhttp://tinyurl.com/NSTAStormwa ter
31. More Information System Highlights
http://www.hcpss.org/f/vision/rece nt-highlights-fall-2014.pdf
Baltimore Sun Newspaper Article
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryl
and/howard/ellicott-city/ph-ho-cf- belmont-0508-20140505-
story.html#page=1