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Featured B-WET content

Three people stand around a tree. One holds a clip board and another is holding a measuring tape.

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

April 3, 2024

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Three people stand around a tree. One holds a clip board and another is holding a measuring tape.

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

November 7, 2023

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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.

Students and educators hike along a grassy hillside in a single-file line.

NOAA B-WET funding opportunities are now open!

November 6, 2023

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Students and educators hike along a grassy hillside in a single-file line.

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

July 12, 2023

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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.

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

December 5, 2022

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

Updated guide for educators on meaningful watershed educational experiences

November 17, 2022

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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

November 2, 2022

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

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

October 26, 2022

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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.

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

NOAA to fund environmental literacy efforts in the Chesapeake Bay watershed

September 14, 2022

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

Twenty years and growing: A timeline of NOAA B-WET

August 9, 2022

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

Reflecting on 20 years of B-WET: participant perspectives

August 2, 2022

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

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

January 31, 2022

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Fiscal Year 2021 NOAA Education Accomplishments Report

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

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

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

December 17, 2021

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

2 students planting trees with an adult during a restoration field trip

NOAA Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience

November 4, 2021

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2 students planting trees with an adult during a restoration field trip

High school students kneel and plant seedlings in a marsh.

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

June 17, 2021

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High school students kneel and plant seedlings in a marsh.

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

April 19, 2021

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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.

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

December 9, 2020

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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.

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

November 24, 2020

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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.

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

September 24, 2020

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National Estuarine Research Reserves

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

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

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

September 16, 2020

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

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

June 17, 2020

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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.

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

February 13, 2020

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

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

January 31, 2020

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

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

October 9, 2019

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National Estuarine Research Reserves

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.

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

August 27, 2019

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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.

Bay Watershed Education and Training grantees put environmental education into action

July 18, 2019

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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

May 30, 2019

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

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

December 11, 2018

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

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

October 23, 2018

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

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 Century Community Learning Center Watershed STEM Education Partnership Grant.

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

February 12, 2018

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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 Century Community Learning Center Watershed STEM Education Partnership Grant.

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

January 3, 2018

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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.

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

December 22, 2017

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National Estuarine Research Reserves

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

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

September 18, 2017

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National Estuarine Research Reserves

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.

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

April 10, 2017

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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.

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

October 4, 2016

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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.