Salty Streams and Safer Streets Curriculum Training- Grades 6-9

Spend a day engaged in a complete curriculum designed for the PA STEELS standards, specifically the Environmental Lit. and Sustainability. Salty Streams and Safer Streats began as a NOAA B-WET grant as an upstream-downstream partnership with the goal of systemically implementing Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEE) in middle schools. These experiences aim to teach students about local watershed issues and how their actions impact the overall health of the watershed. The project started with a comprehensive curriculum that was classroom-tested with nearly 1,000 elementary students (Shared Waters) and has grown into a complete curriculum focused at the 6-9 grade level. Salty Streams and Safer Streets offers a comprehensive curriculum specifically designed for students in grades 6-9, aligned with the PA STEELS standards, with an emphasis on environmental literacy and sustainability. This curriculum includes 11 lessons and extends watershed education into grades 6–9 through a locally relevant investigation of one of today’s important environmental challenges: balancing winter road safety with the health of our freshwater ecosystems. Through hands-on investigations, outdoor learning, water quality monitoring, geospatial technologies, systems thinking, and Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER), students gather and synthesize evidence before designing and implementing meaningful watershed action projects.