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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.

GCA 50+ Year Anniversary Timeline

GCA 50+ Year Anniversary Timeline

Oct 22, 2021

Goose Creek Association Timeline 1970 – GCA founded to promote orderly growth and to oppose successfully the discharge of sewage...

Goose Creek Association’s 50+ Anniversary Celebration Fall Festival – September 19, 2021

Goose Creek Association’s 50+ Anniversary Celebration Fall Festival – September 19, 2021

Jul 2, 2021

GCA recently celebrated more than 50+ years as the Goose Creek Association on September 19, 2021 at the Historic Aldie...

2021 Goose Creek Challenge

2021 Goose Creek Challenge

Apr 30, 2021

Springtime is our time for riparian buffer planting. GCA along with a few dedicated volunteers and the Ashburn Girl Scouts...

Raffle Items

Raffle Items

Feb 26, 2021

Incredible Raffle Items: Gently used Old Town Canoe with paddles – Summer awaits! Outdoor Gear – Get ready for some...

WILD & SCENIC FILM FESTIVAL – April 9, 2021

WILD & SCENIC FILM FESTIVAL – April 9, 2021

Feb 19, 2021

        Wild and Scenic Film Festival FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 2021 Virtual Lobby Opens at 6:30pm (chat, raffle)...

Give Local Piedmont Campaign – April 21st through May 5th

Give Local Piedmont Campaign – April 21st through May 5th

Apr 7, 2020

Please consider donating to the Goose Creek Association and our continued efforts to protect and preserve our local watershed.  Donate...

Canoe Clean-up Flotilla Scheduled for May 2, 2020

Canoe Clean-up Flotilla Scheduled for May 2, 2020

Mar 16, 2020

Join us as we enjoy a canoe and clean-up day on the Goose Creek.  Register early as canoes are limited....

Presentation of “The Biggest Little Farm” at the Hill School was an enormous success!

Presentation of “The Biggest Little Farm” at the Hill School was an enormous success!

Feb 26, 2020

Thank you all for attending our presentation, along with the Land Trust of Virginia, of “The Biggest Little Farm”.  We...

“The Biggest Little Farm” Documentary

“The Biggest Little Farm” Documentary

Dec 4, 2019

GOOSE CREEK ASSOCIATION and LAND TRUST OF VIRGINIA PRESENT the ACCLAIMED FILM: THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM AT THE HILL SCHOOL FEBRUARY...

Goose Creek Art Contest for Local High Schools

Goose Creek Art Contest for Local High Schools

Sep 25, 2019

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of both the Goose Creek Association and the Virginia “Scenic River” program in 2020, local...

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