Video: Chesapeake B-WET offers systemic, equitable, and sustainable environmental literacy

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A new video from the NOAA Bay Watershed Education and Training Program (B-WET) highlights the grantee Arlington Public Schools. School district leaders, teachers, and facilities managers describe how they have embedded systemic Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEEs) into the curriculum, developed an Environmental Literacy Plan, and created a culture of sustainability and environmental literacy throughout the district. 

This video highlights the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Bay Watershed Education and Training Program (B-WET) grantee: Arlington Public Schools.

This work highlights the Chesapeake B-WET region, which serves communities throughout the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and seeks to support the Chesapeake Bay Program’s Environmental Literacy Goal by providing support for systemic, equitable, and sustainable environmental literacy programs.

B-WET is an environmental education program that provides competitive funding for projects that support place-based experiential learning for students and related professional development for teachers. The core components of B-WET funded projects are MWEEs, multi‐stage activities that include learning both outdoors and in the classroom.