Friday, June 6, 2025

Stroud Water Research Center Hosts 7-Part Online Workshop Series On Expanding Meaningful Environmental & Watershed Literacy With Geospatial Technology Tools Starting June 25

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Stroud Water Research Center is hosting a seven-part online workshop series for K-12 educators on Expanding Meaningful Environmental & Watershed Literacy With Geospatial Technology Tools starting June 25.
The workshop series is being presented by a partnership of the Stroud Center, Pennsylvania Sea Grant, the Center for Great Lakes Literacy, Sea Grant Great Lakes Network and the state Department of Education.

Have you been searching for the missing link that helps bridge the gap between delivering environmental content and developing environmental literacy? 

Do you want to help your students understand their connections to their local environment, but are limited by established curriculum sequences? 

Have residual COVID-19 restrictions on classroom, lab, and field experiences limited your ability to design real-world STEM explorations using the environment as an integrative concept? 

If you answered yes to any of these questions, this is the professional development opportunity for you!

Using geographic information systems (GIS) and geospatial technologies to explore complex interdisciplinary phenomena, such as environmental issues, has been demonstrated as a highly effective method for teachers and students to better understand connections within the natural world at all grade levels.

Connecting spatial representation and explorations to local field-based inquiry further improves understanding in a tangible way while creating a sense of place and connection to the issue. 

Yet, knowing which GIS tools to use and how to use them to enhance an existing curriculum can initially be quite daunting for educators. 

In this professional development experience, you will learn to: 

-- Identify which GIS tools to use in an environmental or watershed literacy instructional unit that will be appropriate for your instructional grade level.

-- Integrate and adapt these tools into your classroom instruction.

-- Share how GIS tools can be used to identify environmental issues within your district’s watershed boundaries.

-- Investigate environmental issues within and outside your watershed boundaries.

-- Identify which classroom practices and GIS tools can be used for both place-based learning and expansion into the regional watershed and environmental literacy inquiries.

Click Here to register for this free series and for more information.

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The Chester County-based Stroud Center seeks to advance knowledge and stewardship of freshwater systems through global research, education, and watershed restoration.

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[Posted: June 6, 2025]  PA Environment Digest

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