Introduction and Overview

Project Development Steps

Between 2006 and 2010, the Coalition for Watershed Education partners took steps to develop and fine-tune a multifaceted range of program components. The CWE:
Step 1: Developed a partner coalition with shared goals for LTTR activities;
Step 2: Marketed events and recruited participants;
Step 3: Developed a menu of watershed discovery experiences;
Step 4: Designed the applications of technology for all project experiences;
Step 5: Published and presented watershed information through web-based multimedia maps, a traveling program information kiosk, radio broadcasts, a permanent, immersive exhibit, and video documentaries;
Step 6: Planned dissemination efforts via a replication site and a regional conference.

A Call to Action for Your Community

If your goal is to engineer a way of linking watershed science education and media technology in your own region, tap expertise and capacities that are already in place - and build a sustainable structure for ongoing projects or programs - then get started! Click to "Start a Project".

For the full Introduction chapter from the Listening to the River Community Guide, click here.

Support Documents

• Introductory PowerPoint Presentation - Digital only
• Documentary Video - Digital only
• Informal Science Education Guiding Principles
• National Science Teachers Position Statement on ISE