{"id":8860,"date":"2015-07-21T13:01:10","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T17:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=8860"},"modified":"2017-04-14T16:14:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T20:14:05","slug":"dnr-awards-environmental-literacy-grants-for-student-stream-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2015\/07\/21\/dnr-awards-environmental-literacy-grants-for-student-stream-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"DNR Awards Environmental Literacy Grants for Student Stream Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/Stream-students-w-laptop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8868\" src=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/Stream-students-w-laptop.jpg\" alt=\"Stream students w laptop\" width=\"375\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/Stream-students-w-laptop.jpg 375w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/Stream-students-w-laptop-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/Stream-students-w-laptop-300x298.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a>The Department of Natural Resources awarded a total of $400,000 to six nonprofits to engage Maryland K-12 students in studying, monitoring and improving the health of their local streams over the next year. Selected by a review panel of state, federal and nonprofit environmental groups, these projects will educate 15,000 students on their local environment, and help them gain real-world science and conservation skills.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled by the response to this funding program and grateful to have so many groups vested in connecting our youth, the next generation of stewards, with the natural world around them,\u201d said DNR Secretary Mark Belton. \u201cThe Environmental Literacy Grant program provides our schools the resources to improve stream health, and to help our state meet the natural resources, environmental education, and citizen involvement goals of the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesapeakebay.net\/chesapeakebaywatershedagreement\/page\" target=\"_blank\">Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Through teacher training and student outreach, the six grant recipients below will reach 120 teachers at 77 schools in nine districts, and ultimately 15,000 students.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BioEYES at the Carnegie Institution for Science working with Baltimore City schools<\/li>\n<li>Fair Hill Nature Center working with Cecil County schools<\/li>\n<li>Howard County Conservancy working with Howard County schools<\/li>\n<li>Izaak Walton League of America working with Montgomery and Frederick County schools<\/li>\n<li>Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy working with Dorchester and Queen Anne\u2019s County schools<\/li>\n<li>The National Audubon Society\u2019s Pickering Creek Audubon Center with Wicomico and Caroline County schools<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The funding was made available in partnership with EPA\u2019s Chesapeake Bay Program. The grant program emphasizes providing students with rigorous, outdoor science investigations in local streams, and then using their studies to create stewardship action projects to improve water quality. It also aims to connect students to STEM career ideas and provide teacher professional development \u2013 all supporting both the new\u00a0watershed\u00a0agreement and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/environmentalliteracy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maryland Environmental Literacy requirements<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaryland schools are fortunate to have access to an array of excellent environmental education opportunities and partners, many of which connect students to meaningful outdoor experiences in their local communities,\u201d said Britt Slattery, with DNR\u2019s Chesapeake and Coastal Service. \u201cWe received funding requests for nearly $1.2 million to support schools in more than 70\u00a0percent of Maryland&#8217;s school districts, a testament to the environmental literacy commitment among schools and partners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr2.maryland.gov\/Education\/Pages\/streamed.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/dnr2.maryland.gov\/Education\/Pages\/streamed.aspx<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Natural Resources awarded a total of $400,000 to six nonprofits to engage Maryland K-12 students in studying, monitoring and improving the health of their local streams over the next year. Selected by a review panel of state, federal and nonprofit environmental groups, these projects will educate 15,000 students on their local environment,<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2015\/07\/21\/dnr-awards-environmental-literacy-grants-for-student-stream-studies\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"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":[],"class_list":["post-8860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-the-bay"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8860","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8872,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8860\/revisions\/8872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}