	Chesapeake Academic Resources for Teachers (ChART) is a resource designed to help educators provide meaningful watershed educational experiences to their students. ChART offers educators Bay related lesson plans and activities, field studies and professional development opportunities. ChART is aimed at increasing hands-on learning about the Bay. Hands-on learning has been shown to increase academic performance and enthusiasm as well it can instill a strong environmental stewardship ethic in our youth. Choose an option below to begin navigating ChART's valuable bounty of resources:


	Bring the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed to life in your classroom. Use ChART to find many great teaching resources including: books, data, websites and more. Your students can learn about the Bay first in your classroom then can experience it through one of ChART's field study programs.


	Get your hands wet. Search our library of field study programs and find ideas that you can use to enable your students to experience the Bay's watershed hands-on. Such experiences will help you and your students to form a lasting connection to the Chesapeake.


	How can you prepare yourself to teach your students about the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed? The key to teaching your students is to first learn about the Bay yourself. ChART has a large database of professional development opportunities that can help you find the right training for you.


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The acronym MWEE stands for Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience. Learn more about this important initiative (100 kb .pdf).


Education Workgroup Activities Education Workgroup 2005 Endorsement Chesapeake 2000 Agreement 1998 CBP Education Directive


The NOAA B-WET Program provides funding for hands-on watershed education throughout the region. Learn more. Feature of the Month Chesapeake Bay Aqua Ecosystem Program: The AquaEcosystem program of the National Aquarium in Baltimore reaches key underserved areas in Baltimore city students and other areas throughout Maryland. The innovative program sets up fish-plant recirculating aquaculture systems ponds on school grounds to serve as grow-out facilities for bay grasses and striped bass. The students then restore the Bay by planting the grasses and releasing the striped bass at key restoration sites throughout the Bay.


ChART content has been approved by state departments of education and wherever possible aligns with standards of learning and/or academic standards. Check out Environmental Education initiatives in your state! Delaware District of Columbia Maryland New York Pennsylvania Virginia West Virginia

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