Bay Watershed Education & Training
BWET 2018
Demographics
% Total number of students served for schools participating in MWEE field trips:
- White: 30.7%
- Black: 49.3%
- Hispanic: 13.2%
Free/reduced lunch: 72.5%
Teacher testimonials
Professional development outcomes
鈥淚 benefitted from this experience, by getting Hands-On with tools and techniques of real scientists. These techniques and tools I will be able to bring back to my students, to foster a love of the outdoors and the Tampa Bay watershed. Also, knowledge gained will benefit my students as I pass on this newfound information to them.鈥�
鈥淚 feel like I am much more knowledgeable about the content in our standards 鈥搈uch more familiar with the vocabulary and concepts. I feel like I鈥檝e gained both specific and general content knowledge, that will help prevent me from teaching common misconceptions regarding many of the units in our curriculum. I also feel like I also learned a lot about our local ecosystems, that I can use to share with my students as real-life connections and examples that will be engaging for them. I have also gained experience with and learned about many hands-on tools and demonstrations that will increase my students鈥� engagement and experiences.鈥�
Field trip experience
鈥淐lam Bayou is so much more than just (an) educational (experience) for my students. They have a BLAST! Everything they do at Clam Bayou is hands-on and truly submerses students into the role of a scientist! It connects to so many of our life science standards and is invaluable to students鈥� understanding of food webs, organisms, data collection, structures of organisms and so much more!鈥� 5th grade BWET teacher
Student taking wind measurements on dock.