Environmental Education and Teacher Development the Focus of Grant to Georgia Southern Team
The IWH is part of a multidisciplinary team from Georgia Southern that was awarded a grant from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to work with educators and students to provide hands-on experiences in watershed science, biology, and chemistry. The funded project, “Suwannee Watershed: Assessment and Monitoring of Place to Gain Understanding of Local Flow (SWAMP to GULF),” is led by principal investigator (PI) Lacey Huffling, Ph.D., associate professor of science education, and co-PIs Heather Scott, Ed.D., and Regina McCurdy, Ph.D., both assistant professors of science education.
Dr. Asli Aslan and Luke Roberson from the IWH will be focused on science communication, citizen science techniques, and environmental experiential education. Luke serves on the state board of the Georgia Adopt A Stream program (AAS), the state’s largest volunteer water quality monitoring program. The grant will supply teachers and students with the training and equipment to monitor their local waterways, understand the results, and log them into the AAS database for analysis.
The goal of the program is to provide place-based watershed experiential education to students who might otherwise not have this opportunity. In addition to helping students, teacher professional development and science communication are priorities of this grant.
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