Whether you are looking for professional development, curricula, funding, environmental data, or outdoor experiences, we offer a variety of programs and materials to fit your needs.

 

Professional Development

• Explore and Restore Maryland Streams
  - Engage students in studying and monitoring streams and conducting stewardship projects to improve the health of our waterways (grades K-12)


• Green Eggs and Sand Curriculum and Workshops
  - A middle and high school science curriculum based on the horseshoe crab along with educator immersion workshops.


• Project Learning Tree
  - Learn ways to teach students about trees and conservation through an interdisciplinary, hands-on workshop; partial MSDE credit may be available (grades K-12)


• Project WET
  - Learn ways to teach students about water and conservation through an interdisciplinary, hands-on workshop; partial MSDE credit may be available (grades K-12)


• Project WILD (including Aquatic WILD, Growing Up WILD, and Flying WILD)​
  - Learn ways to teach students about wildlife and conservation through an interdisciplinary, hands-on workshop; partial MSDE credit may be available (grades pre-K-12)


• Outdoor Learning on Public Lands
  - Professional development for enriching your outdoor learning activities and getting acquainted with what our public lands have to offer. Half-day, outdoor workshops


• Teachers on the Estuary
  - Learn about the Chesapeake Bay through interactive, hands-on lessons (grades 6-12)

Upcoming Workshops

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Curricula and Programs

• Aquatic Invasive Species Curriculum & Trunk
  - Interdisciplinary lesson plans and resources designed to teach about Maryland’s aquatic invasive species (grades 2-12)


• Arbor Day Activities
  - Activities for elementary students to learn about Arbor Day (grades K-5)


• Bay Backpack
  - Resources to supplement and to provide meaningful watershed educational experiences (grades K-12)


• Career Connections:​
  - Help students considering a career in conservation with our guide and other great resources!


• ​ Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (CBNERR)
  - Offers hands-on outdoor science learning with focus on wetlands, forests, and Bay watershed (pre K-12; public)


• Check Up: Environmental Design In Your School​
  - Learn how to identify and implement actions that are good for the environment and make economic sense with this web-based guide (grades 6-12)


• Climate Change 1
  - A collection of climate and energy educational resources and
  Climate Change 2
  - news, research, special reports, videos, all related to climate change


• Environmental Education ToolKit (MSDE)
  - resources to assist with meeting state environmental literacy standards: the Environmental Literacy Standards, Curricular Infusion By Grade-bands, and a number of additional resources and guidance materials for grades Pre-K to 12.


• Envirothon
  - Learn about Maryland’s natural resources and compete in local and state competitions (grades 9-12)


• Estuaries 101
  - Interactive, web-based curricula on the world of estuaries (grades 6-12)


• Explore and Restore Maryland’s Streams
  - Instructional resources for studying and monitoring streams are based on work done by Department of Natural Resources scientists (grades K-12)


• Scales and Tales
  - Invite animal ambassadors into the classroom to learn about local wildlife, adaptations, and more (grades K-12)


• Schoolyard Wildlife Habitat
  - Learn how to make your schoolyard wildlife friendly; includes lesson plans, funding ideas, and identification tools (grades K-12)


• Storm Drain Stenciling
  - Participate in a service learning activity that raises awareness about storm drains (grades K-12)


• Sunfish and Students
  - Raise sunfish in the classroom and release (grades 4-12)


• Trout in the Classroom
  - Raise trout from eggs to fingerlings and then release them into a state-approved cold water stream or lake (grades K-12)


• Wildlife Education Trunks
  - Bring the outside into your classroom with these free hands-on, interdisciplinary teaching tools, which contain artifacts and activities to learn about wildlife (grades K-12)

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Funding

• Chesapeake Bay Trust Environmental Education Grant Program
  - Apply for grants to expand and enhance Bay environmental education programs for pre-K through grade 12 students in Maryland.


• NOAA Chesapeake Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET Chesapeake) grant program
  - Apply for grants to support hands-on watershed education for students and teachers to foster stewardship of the Bay


• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Environmental Education Grants Program
  - Apply for grants that support projects promoting environmental awareness and stewardship.

 

Environmental Data

Chesapeake Bay and Coastal Resources

• Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission
  - Provides data on harvested fish such as American eels


• Chesapeake Bay Program
  - A regional partnership that leads and directs Chesapeake Bay restoration and protection. FAQs about Bay and watershed.


• Coastal and Estuarine Geology Program
  - Provides information on coastal environment geology and changing shorelines of the Bay and the Atlantic coast.


• Chesapeake Bay Monitoring Program
  - Measures key components of the ecosystem, including pollutant inputs, water quality, habitat and living resources.


• Eyes on the Bay
  - Access real-time Chesapeake and Coastal Bays water quality monitoring data

Geology

• Groundwater
  - Online groundwater flow models and data


• Maryland Geological Survey
  - Reports, maps, and data on Maryland’s geology

Streams

• Maryland Biological Stream Survey
  - A comprehensive program to assess the status of biological resources in Maryland's non-tidal streams

Mapping

• Coastal Atlas
  - An online mapping and planning tool that allows state and local decision-makers to explore and analyze data for coastal and ocean planning activities


• Coastal Plain Geologic and Geophysical Log map
  - An interactive map that provides access to logs of sediments/rocks encountered during drilling and borehole geophysical data.


• Groundwater Level Mapper Tool
  - An interactive map that provides water levels measured in wells in the Maryland Observation Well Network


• Maryland FieldScope
  - A project supporting the Explore and Restore Maryland Streams program. Enter watershed data and virtually explore your watershed.


• Maryland Stream Health
  - An interactive map showing stream health around the state


• MERLIN
  - (Maryland Environmental Resource and Land Information Network) - online mapping repository for Geographic Information System (GIS) spatial data for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Identify the closest natural resources that surround your school and community.

Wildlife

• White-tailed Deer
  - A​nnual project report on Maryland’s deer population.

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