Education Projects
Education Projects
Our hands-on, inquiry-based projects are community-focused. Through these projects, we strive to provide comprehensive access for underserved populations to high quality environmental education. Please reach out to us to discuss the possibility of your organization being a good partner for our systemic projects.
CITE is a Marathon-funded water quality Community Science Initiative that is beginning in St. John the Baptist Parish. It walks community members through the process of identifying a waterway of concern, deciding on what test is most appropriate, collecting data and using that data to design an action project.
CORE is an EPA Environmental Justice and NFWF funded project that trains youth in best practices for small scale wetland restoration to help manage stormwater within their communities. Community partners for this project include Abramson Sci Academy, Living School, CSED, The Water Collaborative, Common Ground Relief, Sprout NOLA, The Meraux Foundation, Louisiana Green Corps, Greater New Orleans Iris Society, Audubon Louisiana Nature Center, and Audubon Nature Institute.
FLOW is a NOAA BWET funded water literacy project that takes place over a two year period in parishes within the Ponchartrain Basin. In year one, middle school science teachers are trained on environmental topics such as water quality, coastal land loss, and marine debris. They also create a locally-relevant FLOW curriculum with accompanying STEM kits that is designed to facilitate experiential learning for their students. The curriculum is implemented with all their students in year two. FLOW started in St. Bernard Parish and is now in St. John the Baptist Parish.
Watershed Investigations is a National Academy of Sciences funded water literacy project that takes place each semester with a Title I middle school in parishes within the Ponchartrain Basin. The project partners Pontchartrain Conservancy with a teacher and their students to design a field investigation in their local watershed. Students choose a driving question and collect data using kits that are given to the schools for future investigations. After analyzing their data, students presents their findings to the audience of their choice.