Chesapeake Connections reaches every 6th grade student through an engaging, real-world restoration program. Learning starts in the classroom when Chesapeake Connections visits the students for a pre-trip lesson aimed at building background knowledge and generating excitement. Students then embark on an environmental stewardship field experience where they explore a local ecosystem and engage in a number of activities. Chesapeake Connections combines learning, stewardship, and exploration in a local setting and encourages students to apply their in-classroom learning to real-world environmental problems and their solutions. The Chesapeake Connections restoration project varies for each school and may involve participation in a stormwater restoration planting, oyster restoration, reforestation project, or climate data collection study.

*The Chesapeake Connections Program fulfils the 10 hour service learning requirement for the 6th graders.

Contacts

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Anna Youngk Email Anna Youngk 
Amanda Miller Email Amanda Miller   
Arlington Echo 410-222-3822