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B-WET in action

Students canoe on a lake. Their canoes are filled with aquatic plants they appear to have removed.

Reinventing aquatic science at Danbury High School through B-WET funding

Two students stand on the shore of an island and cast fishing lines into the water. There’s a beautiful orange and blue sunset over the ocean.

Environmental education shows what it means to do ‘green’ STEM

In 2019, Lummi Nation students engage in meaningful watershed educational experiences and related stewardship activities including measuring water quality, planting native plants to restore habitat, raising salmon in the classroom for release in a nearby stream, and observing the spring fishery by tagging and tracking Chinook salmon returning to their natal spawning grounds.

Lummi Nation prepares the next generation through 'schelangen' and watershed education

Students from Westlake High School start bitter panicum sprouts at Aquaponics Lab. Full grown plants will be used in the planned spring planting.

Louisiana students cultivate wetland grasses in school aquaponics systems for wetland restoration

During the 2018 Rivers2Lake Summer Institute, Superior Middle School life science teacher Valerie Poynter (left) and Carlton High School biology teacher Katherine Nistler (right), accompanied by University of Minnesota, Duluth, Ph.D. student Kait Reinl (center), perform a plankton tow in the Bibon Slough in Port Wing, Wisconsin.

Mentoring works: Teachers engage year-round with Lake Superior

Third place winners of the Resilience MWEE Stewardship Summit at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Dominic Blankenship, Nic Steele, and Tommie Ashford are in Mr. Cooper Kimbrell’s Marine Science class at Gautier High School.

Mississippi students tackle sea level rise using NOAA Digital Coast

Students from Chief Kitsap Academy provide a cultural performance at the Indigenous Youth Summit on Climate Change and Ocean Change.

Ecosystem Pen Pals: Indigenous youth connect communities through action

Estuary Explorers conduct field work at the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve.

Students become ‘Estuary Explorers’ at the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve

B-WET multimedia stories

A photo collage of 14 different participants of the B-WET program.

B-WET program celebrates 20 years of environmental education

Bay Watershed Education and Training grantees put environmental education into action

High school students weed the loʻi (wet taro patch) doing habitat restoration, while also connecting to their ahupuaʻa.

Traditional Hawaiian knowledge engages students through watershed education

Teachers collect water quality data from the shoreline of Lake Superior during the Rivers2Lake Summer Institute.

Photo story: 5 environmental education projects from the Great Lakes

A group of students walk through a wooded area. Students carry a clipboard and other scientific data collection tools.

B-WET videos

B-WET successes and awards

A student stands at a podium speaking at the NOAA B-WET 20th anniversary event.

B-WET celebrates their 20th anniversary at a special event on the Chesapeake Bay

B-WET's 20th anniversary

B-WET participant profiles

A timeline of NOAA B-WET

Students kneel and look into a stream while collecting water samples.

1,000 educators now certified to deliver Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences

Star Lake Elementary and Totem Middle School students work with the Environmental Science Center to sample macroinvertebrates at a field study site in Washington state as part of a 2017 NOAA-21st CCLC Watershed STEM Education Partnership Grant.

NOAA partners with Department of Education to bring watershed education to out-of-school programs

B-WET announcements and news

four students sit around a drain on the street with cars in the background. The students are wearing gloves and holding paint brushes. Around the drain is fresh white paint.

New funding opportunities to support K-12 environmental literacy, state-wide environmental education capacity

A group of educators stand together outside with buckets, meter sticks and other sampling supplies. The educators are participating in environmental education and look to be measuring a shallow puddle.

NOAA funding supports Chesapeake Bay watershed environmental education

Updated guide for educators on meaningful watershed educational experiences

Hampton City Schools (Virginia) students track information about oysters they are growing in a project supported by Chesapeake B-WET.

Grant opportunities for school districts, regional environmental education efforts in Chesapeake Bay watershed

Six teens stand or sit on rocks that cross a stream. Two are holding sampling probes and another holds a clipboard. There is thick, shrubby vegetation on either side of the stream, and there are large mats of algae in the water.

New guide helps educators lead Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences

Four teachers look at leaves that fell during autumn along side a creek.

NOAA to fund environmental literacy efforts in the Chesapeake Bay watershed

Teachers at the Mission Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve collecting plankton as part of the University of Houston Victoria B-WET supported Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience.

Open grant opportunity: NOAA Gulf of Mexico B-WET Program

High school students kneel and plant seedlings in a marsh.

2021 New England Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) awardees announced

An educator reaches a clear plastic tube into a shallow stream.

NOAA announces projects for fiscal year 2020 Chesapeake Bay B-WET grant funding

Elementary students make underwater observations to learn about their watershed at the Science and Discovery Center of Northwest Florida as part of their 2015 Gulf of Mexico B-WET project.

New grants support out-of-school watershed STEM experiences for kids

NOAA supports STEM in after-school programs at 21st Century Community Learning Centers around the country

A student wearing hip waders holds a seining net while standing in a shallow pond.

2019 New England Bay-Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) awardees announced

NOAA staff members joins 2 students in the water to try to grab a sample. NOAA staff holds a net in the water, one student holds a smaller handheld net for scooping, and another student holds a bucket.

Interagency partnership brings STEM experiences to 21st Century Community Learning Centers

Video: NOAA supports STEM after school at 21st Century Community Learning Centers

NOAA funding supports projects that enable students learn from firsthand experiences in their watershed.

NOAA grants to support watershed education in Chesapeake Bay region

Students are on a boat in a river raising their hands as an educator talks to them.

Chesapeake Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) program federal funding opportunity released

Students investigate the content of nets while standing in a shallow stream.

NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office announces recipients of fiscal year 2018 B-WET education grants

Two people stand along the stream. One is using a tablet to film the other. The one being filmed holds a tube of clear liquid up to a data sheet that is used to compare liquid color.

NOAA B-WET program awards $452,583 to Washington and Oregon organizations for environmental education

News and stories from B-WET partners

U.S. Department of Education Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Centers

B-WET collaborates with the U.S. Department of Education and the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) to implement the Watershed STEM Education Partnership program offsite link. This program is a part of U.S. Department of Education’s interagency initiative designed to integrate high-quality STEM programming into Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Centers program sites.

Diving into eeBLUE: NAAEE partners with NOAA to offer Watershed STEM Education grants offsite link

Watershed Chronicles offsite link: Watershed STEM Grantees share their experiences implementing projects as part of a monthly blog series from NAAEE. Please see the links below for individual blog posts.

September 2022: The Magic of a Mini-Meaningful Watershed Education Experience (MWEE) offsite link
August 2022: Visual Learning Legacies Crafted by Youth Watershed Leaders offsite link
July 2022: Underwater Explorers Snorkel the Lake Champlain Watershed offsite link
June 2022: School-Based MWEE's Maximum Impact offsite link
May 2022: Reflection of an Ocean Educator offsite link
April 2022: Reconnecting with Our Wetlands offsite link
March 2022: Island Champions of Coastal Resilience offsite link
February 2022: Weathering the COVID-19 storm: adapting educational experiences at 21st Century Community Learning Centers offsite link
January 2022: School grounds to sound offsite link
December 2021: Connecting with the Great Lakes through watershed education offsite link
November 2021: Blazing trails for CCLC youth and families offsite link
October 2021: PIVOOOOOT!” - Flint partners persevere with passion through the pandemic offsite link
September 2021: A professional journey in cultivating stewardship of land and water using the 21st Century Community Learning Center model offsite link
August 2021: Puget Sound estuaries: inspiring the next generation of stewards of Puget Sound through exploration and education offsite link
July 2021: Urban watersheds: adjusting instruction during COVID-19 offsite link
June 2021: Celebrating watersheds and wildlife: bringing MWEE to youth creatively during COVID-19 offsite link
May 2021: Stepping outside offsite link
April 2021: It's all about the connections offsite link
March 2021: Staying engaged from afar offsite link
February 2021: Training teachers to bring the outside in offsite link
January 2021: Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies: Kenai watersheds offsite link
December 2020: Kilo Kai, to observe the ocean — connecting land use and its impacts on the nearshore ecosystem offsite link
November 2020: Mass Audubon: place-based STEM meets you where you are offsite link

NOAA Ocean Guardian School program

B-WET helps to support the Ocean Guardian School program; a grant program that supports hands-on ocean stewardship projects in K-12 public, private, and charter schools.

NOAA Ocean Guardian Schools lead environmental action across the nation

Empowering ocean stewards through the Ocean Guardian Schools Program

From ridge to reef: protecting Guam’s marine life through student efforts

Ocean Guardian School helps clean up the Juneau area

Kid superheroes: saving the planet, one environmental issue at a time

B-WET news and stories