{"id":36519,"date":"2022-07-28T11:52:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T15:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=36519"},"modified":"2022-07-28T11:52:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T15:52:52","slug":"dnr-awards-outdoor-environmental-education-grants-for-watershed-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2022\/07\/28\/dnr-awards-outdoor-environmental-education-grants-for-watershed-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"DNR Awards Outdoor Environmental Education Grants for Watershed Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Funding Supports Projects Fostering Science and Stewardship<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 363px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4825\/45685639364_d15ec7fede.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of boy and girl at a streamside education project\" width=\"353\" height=\"265\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maryland DNR photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (DNR) has announced $128,000 in awards for student and youth outdoor science, and watershed education in the state. The following schools and nonprofit organizations will receive funding during Fiscal Year 2023.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Adkins Arboretum, ShoreRivers, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and <\/span><b>Caroline County Public Schools <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">will engage second grade students in the \u201cBees, Seeds, and Healthy Streams\u201d field experience at the Arboretum. Through an outdoor issue investigation, students will discover how can native plants, pollinators, and people interact to create thriving land and water habitats.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The Accokeek Foundation <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and <\/span><b>Prince George\u2019s County Public Schools<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> will help students learn about the perspective of Indigenous communities and the interconnectedness of the environment, cultural preservation, land and water rights, tribal sovereignty, stewardship of ancestral homelands, and Indigenous stewardship ethics.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Living Classrooms Foundation <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">will engage 500 students from five <\/span><b>Baltimore City Public Schools<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the School Leadership in Urban Runoff Reduction Project. This project-based learning experience centers on preventing stormwater runoff pollution through six hands-on environmental education experiences during the school year.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Outdoor education funding is made possible from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s Chesapeake Bay Implementation Grant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An additional $9,995 grant was awarded to the <\/span><b>University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (UMCES) to train educators on the \u201cWave of Plastic\u201d curriculum in the eight public middle schools in <\/span><b>Charles County<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. This curriculum engages students in the issues of plastic pollution and culminates in student-driven, informed action projects. This grant is funded by the National Coastal Zone Management Program, and was a special marine debris focus area offered in this year\u2019s grant solicitation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These grants were applied for and managed through the DNR <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/ccs\/Pages\/funding\/grantsgateway.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grants Gateway<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to provide a single entry point for grantees, and assures access to funding for innovative, local projects. Through the improved connections across similar grant programs, the department seeks to support more comprehensive and integrated projects that achieve at least one of the following outcomes: fostering healthy ecosystems, building resiliency, or providing outdoor learning experiences. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funding Supports Projects Fostering Science and Stewardship The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has announced $128,000 in awards for student and youth outdoor science, and watershed education in the state. The following schools and nonprofit organizations will receive funding during Fiscal Year 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,33],"tags":[3468,2969,2970,2924,3404,3110,4032,3290],"class_list":["post-36519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-the-bay","tag-adkins-arboretum","tag-baltimore-city","tag-caroline-county","tag-charles-county","tag-environmental-education","tag-prince-georges-county","tag-shorerivers","tag-university-of-maryland-center-for-environmental-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36521,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36519\/revisions\/36521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}