Congratulations on completing Lesson 2! You're even further on your way to understanding the Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience. In this lesson we:
- Identified and described the four essential elements and supporting practices.
- Learned about some of the MWEE toolboxes to support planning and implementation.
- Reviewed ideas for incorporating student voice throughout the MWEE.
- Learned methods for sustaining and celebrating your MWEE by building awareness and involving partners.
Please continue to the next page to see the MWEE reflection questions for this lesson.
MWEE Toolboxes
MWEE Toolboxes
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- An Educator's Guide to the Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience (MWEE)
- Guía para educadores/as de Experiencias Educativas en Cuencas Hidrográficas (MWEE)
- A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas
- MWEE Planning Tools Toolbox: The Planning Tools Toolbox has resources you can use to help plan a MWEE.
- Planning tools include:
- Think Cloud (PDF, 59 KB)
- Incorporating Outdoor Field Experiences (PDF, 117 KB)
- Environmental Literacy Model (PDF, 112 KB)
- Audit Tool (PDF, 347 KB)
- Planning tools include:
- MWEE Student Worksheet Toolbox: The Student Worksheets Toolbox has resources you can use to help guide student-directed learning. These resources are designed to be used by or with students and can be printed out and used as worksheets, or you could enlarge them and create a collaborative working space in your classroom.
- Student worksheets include:
- Asking Questions and Planning Investigations (PDF, 77 KB)
- Claim, Evidence, Reasoning (PDF, 81 KB)
- Moving from Claims to Informed Action (PDF, 76 KB)
- Choosing an Action Project (PDF, 147 KB)
- Environmental Action Planning (PDF, 314 KB)
- Student worksheets include: