Enter the Watershed Education Video Contest
Have you decided to get your students involved in an in-depth, field-based environmental education activity this school year? Are you planning to conduct a stream study, restore a local habitat, raise trout in the classroom, build a buoy, or construct a school garden as part of teaching STEM or other subjects? If you’re conducting these or related watershed education activities, then grab a camera: we want to see a video of how your students are being engaged in watershed education!
Video Content: We want to learn about your student’s Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience (MWEE)! A MWEE integrates field work in the Chesapeake Bay watershed with multidisciplinary classroom activities and instruction. Experiences are investigative or project-oriented, richly structured and based on high quality instructional design, and consider the watershed as a system. A MWEE is not a single field trip; rather, the experience reflects an integrated approach to learning that is sustained throughout the school year, involving preparation, action, and reflection.
Your video should show students engaged in the action component of a MWEE, explain what they are doing, and highlight why it is a MWEE. Videos created this year or during the past 3 school years will be accepted.
How to Enter: It’s simple! Just make your video, upload it to either YouTube or Vimeo, and send a link to the video to info@baybackpack.com by no later than midnight on November 15, 2013! The email in which you submit your video link must include your name, the featured school/organization name, the video title, and a 1-2 sentence description of the video. Videos should be between 1-2 minutes in length and preference will be given to videos uploaded in full high definition (1920x1080). Five finalists will be asked to submit their original video file to the Chesapeake Bay Program within one week of notification. Judging will be conducted by a panel with representation from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Chesapeake Bay Office, the Chesapeake Bay Trust, and the Chesapeake Research Consortium. Winners will be announced on Bay Backpack in late November.
Deadline: All entries must be received by no later than midnight on November 15, 2013
Eligibility: Videos created this year or during the past 3 school years will be accepted. Submissions will be accepted from formal and informal pre-K-12 grade educators, students, schools, and local or state school systems. Non-profit environmental education organizations and local, state, and federal natural resource agencies are also encouraged to submit videos. Videos will be accepted from qualifying organizations from Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia.
What You Could Win: If chosen, your video will be shown to state, regional, and national leaders in the field of environmental education at the Chesapeake Bay Program’s Environmental Education Summit on December 2-3, 2013. The first place contest winner will also receive a prize pack from the Chesapeake Bay Trust, Bay Backpack, and other partners. The prize pack will include a backpack, t-shirts, water bottles, hats and more!
The Fine Print: By entering this contest you grant the Chesapeake Bay Program the right to post, embed, or provide a link to your video on the teacher resource website www.BayBackpack.com and its associated social media accounts. Your video must not infringe on any third party rights and you guarantee that you have obtained the appropriate permissions and/or rights to distribute submitted content. Contest organizers reserve the right to edit video submissions prior to posting using them on Bay Backpack.