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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.

Letter of Objection to Alcoholic Beverage Control

Oct 1, 2015

Date:  August 26, 2015 To:  Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control The Board of Directors of the Goose Creek Association,...

You Are Invited

May 21, 2015

ANNUAL MEETING at The Rector House, 7260 Rector Lane, Marshall, VA on Monday, June 8, 2015 at 5:30 p.m. Presentation...

Earth Day Loudoun

Apr 28, 2015

Booth at Earth Day Loudoun Goose Creek Association had a booth at the Earth Day Loudoun fair held on Saturday, April...

Movie Update

Mar 10, 2015

GCA, Land Trust of Virginia and Virginia League of Conservation Voters Education Fund hosted the environmental movie screening Plastic Paradise:...

Save the date: Environmental Movie Night

Jan 31, 2015

Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, come join us and see this intriguing environmental documentary on March 6, 2015...

Mt. Weather-FEMA Facility Storm water Runoff Meeting

Sep 16, 2014

Please attend the Mt. Weather/FEMA facility meeting on September 23, 2014 from 5:00-8:00 p.m. at Buchanan Hall in Upperville. The...

The Magic of Monarch Butterflies

Jul 20, 2014

At our Annual Meeting in June Nicole Hamilton, from Loudoun Wildlife, gave a wonderful talk on Monarch butterflies. These magical...

The Magic of Monarchs and Annual Meeting

May 26, 2014

YOU ARE INVITED TO GOOSE CREEK ASSOCIATION’S ANNUAL MEETING Monday, June 9th at 5:30 PM at the Rector House in...

Speedwell Venue for Cocktails & Golden Goose Award

May 7, 2014

The Goose Creek Association held its Annual Members’ Cocktail Party April 25, 2014  at Speedwell, the home of hosts Jason...

Honor Earth Day, April 22 – Here’s How!

Apr 8, 2014

Tired of seeing all that litter by the road and creek? Fauquier County Earth Day Cleanup! -April 22, 2014- Let’s...

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