Learn some creative ways to integrate the Chesapeake Bay and environmental issues into your classroom lessons. Search through the Bay Backpack's books, multimedia, curriculum guides, individual lesson plans and online data sources about the subjects you are teaching in class.
Check back often for new and innovative resources to help you teach environmental topics.
Get your students' feet wet and hands dirty. Use the Bay Backpack to find a place to take your students on a field trip to learn about the Chesapeake Bay and its streams and rivers.
Search our database of field studies to find a location near you, or read our blog entries about field studies taking place at schools throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Prepare yourself to teach about the Chesapeake Bay and environmental issues, from climate change to water pollution.
Use the Bay Backpack training calendar to find an upcoming training opportunity near you.
Looking for funds to build a schoolyard habitat or provide your students with a field study? The Bay Backpack includes lists of grant opportunities so you can find the right grant program for you.
Before you apply, check out our grant writing tips to learn how you can strengthen your proposal.
Be a Climate Steward
Do you want to learn more about climate science, investigate innovative teaching methods and become part of a vibrant learning community? If this sound like you, well then you should consider becoming a NOAA Climate Steward! [Read more]
No Potato Left Behind at The GreenMount School
As an urban K-8 independent school, GreenMount students come to us with varying degrees of experience with gardening and the outdoors. As such, one of our keystone programs is Explorations, an environmental science curriculum that is born from the belief that kids should go outside, get dirty, and be awed by the natural world. [Read more]
Experts Focus on Improving Environmental Literacy in the Mid-Atlantic
Today in Annapolis, Maryland, the 2013 Mid-Atlantic Environmental Literacy Summit is bringing together environmental education experts, representatives from federal and state governments, and decision makers from around the watershed to discuss how federal, state, and local partners can be more effective and efficient at developing and implementing environmental literacy programs. [Read more]
Apps for Education: Experience the Chesapeake!
Bring technology into your classroom as you get your students outside of it! Whether you are looking to find a field trip location or to integrate Apps into an outdoor Chesapeake experience, these are some great resources for you. [Read more]
Want to know more Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences? This short video will give you the lowdown.
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FieldScope: Explore this interactive mapping system.
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Green School Program: Ways to make your school earth friendly.
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No Child Left Inside: Learn about this exciting program.
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CBIBS Curriculum: Use real-time data to teach the Bay.
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United States Global Change Research Program
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National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)
