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Watershed Education for Schools

Watershed Educational Experiences Program for Goose Creek Watershed Schools, K-12

 

The Goose Creek region has been fortunate to have a dedicated and remarkably successful group of leaders to preserve the area’s natural resources, water quality, and agricultural landscape. Maintaining that success, however, depends on a continuum of leadership that needs to begin early in life. Encouraging children’s natural curiosity with hands-on experience with the wonders of our rivers, streams, and landscapes is key to the development of leaders for tomorrow’s environmental challenges.

The Chesapeake Bay region is rich with educational programs that focus on water quality made available by Conservation Districts; Virginia’s Departments of Conservation, Game and Inland Fisheries, and Environmental Quality; Chesapeake Bay Back Pack from Chesapeake Bay Foundation; The Nature Conservancy; Trout Unlimited; Isaac Walton League; and many others. Each program is explicitly aligned with required standards of learning. Current in-school offerings of such experiences vary greatly, and no single organization has assumed a leadership role in relating these programs to where students live —in this case, the Goose Creek Watershed.

Many residents in non-coastal communities within the Chesapeake Bay watershed are raising objections to improving water quality under the current EPA guidelines, arguing that their contributions to the Bay are minimal. We propose to emphasize the connectedness of all watersheds and how improving local water quality benefits local communities as well as the Bay. We propose to do this by creating and administering a targeted, locally-based watershed education program paralleling the Meaningful Watershed Education Experience Program undertaken by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

GCA partners with area school science teachers to share and teach Virginia Standards of Learning compatible, inquiry-based curriculum built around identification of the watersheds in the local community and nature walks to nearby streams to learn about the local watershed, to measure water quality, and to recognize erosion, as well as ways to preserve or change the condition of a stream or river. All educati0n experiences can be tailored to the student groups learning levels.

Annual Members Cocktail Party – 4/24/25

Annual Members Cocktail Party – 4/24/25

Apr 11, 2025

Celebrate Conservation with Us: Become a Member and Join Us at Our Annual Cocktail Party Each spring, the Goose Creek...

Earth Day Environmental Film Night at Academies of Loudoun – 4/22/25

Earth Day Environmental Film Night at Academies of Loudoun – 4/22/25

Apr 11, 2025

Leesburg, VA – April 22, 2025 – After the overwhelming success of our first Environmental Film Night in February—which drew...

2025 Free Environmental Film Night: Wings Over Water – 2/28/25

2025 Free Environmental Film Night: Wings Over Water – 2/28/25

Dec 18, 2024

Join Us For Our First of Two Environmental Film Nights in 2025 Middleburg, VA – February 28, 2025 – The Goose...

Environmental Film Night: 2/23

Environmental Film Night: 2/23

Dec 18, 2023

Environmental Film Night: 2/23/2024 Come out and enjoy an evening of short environmental films followed by an open discussion with...

Fall Canoe Cleanup scheduled for September 10th

Fall Canoe Cleanup scheduled for September 10th

Jul 11, 2022

Join the Goose Creek Association on September 10th for canoeing the Goose Creek and a litter Clean up. For more...

GCA Annual Spring Party and Golden Goose Award

GCA Annual Spring Party and Golden Goose Award

Jun 8, 2022

Goose Creek Association held our annual spring party at the lovely home of Russell and Sally Fletcher on May 5,...

2022 GCA Annual Meeting – June 15th

2022 GCA Annual Meeting – June 15th

Jun 8, 2022

Join Us at the Great Meadow Summer House for our Annual Meeting JUNE 15, 2022, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM...

May 7th Canoe Cleanup!

May 7th Canoe Cleanup!

Mar 4, 2022

Join GCA for our Spring Canoe Cleanup on May 7th. For more information and to register send an email to: ...

GCA presentation hosted by the National Sporting Library on March 24th

GCA presentation hosted by the National Sporting Library on March 24th

Mar 4, 2022

            Join the Goose Creek Association and the National Sporting Library & Museum for a...

Valentine’s Day Weekend Showing of Acclaimed Movie “2040”

Valentine’s Day Weekend Showing of Acclaimed Movie “2040”

Dec 29, 2021

Land Trust of Virginia and Goose Creek Association Host Valentine’s Day Weekend Showing of 2040 Join us for a virtual...

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