One Thing Leads to Many Other Things

Students learn about a wetland bayou by monitoring water conditions over four years to gather data for the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation’s Water Watch Program database. This then tu... See More

Students learn about a wetland bayou by monitoring water conditions over four years to gather data for the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation’s Water Watch Program database. This then turned into a Coastal Roots Project (CR) that Louisiana Sea Grant the following year. The students through a grant started to grow seeding for Cyprus trees for the CR project. Experienced students became the educators for students entering the project. These experienced students also spoke at Louisiana YES!, an environmental education conference for students, and to teachers at the Louisiana Environmental Education Symposium. As the article points out one thing leads to many future possibilities for students.

Restorative project based learning

This teacher was trying to help students learn to apply knowledge and found assistance at a local collage. With help she developed a program that is now student driven to monitor a local wet... See More

This teacher was trying to help students learn to apply knowledge and found assistance at a local collage. With help she developed a program that is now student driven to monitor a local wetland. As a result of the monitoring and an effort to do restoration, the teacher recognized another opportunity and started a second project, replanting cypress. The work this teacher describes is inspirational, a little bit of research and assistance has led to a student driven, state recognized program of stewardship and restoration. And students see how science is applied to the real world. The author makes it sound natural and easy for teachers to do.