Past Publications

The purpose of the Chesapeake Bay Program's Environmental Literacy Indicator Tool (ELIT) is to help local and state schools systems collect important information that will help advance the implementation of environmental education...

The Chesapeake Bay Watershed Environmental Literacy Indicator Tool (ELIT) was developed to monitor the capacity and progress of public school districts toward meting the environmental literacy goal stated in the 2014 Chesapeake Bay...

An Educator’s Guide to the Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience (MWEE) is an easy-to-use manual for constructing high-quality educational experiences for all students. Our hope is that this guide is used by teachers and...

June 06, 2012

Managers are making tremendous progress identifying and tackling environmental issues facing the Chesapeake Bay. However, many of the remaining challenges to a healthier ecosystem are complex, diffuse, and directly in the hands of...

June 06, 2012

Managers are making tremendous progress identifying and tackling environmental issues facing the Chesapeake Bay. However, many of the remaining challenges to a healthier ecosystem are complex, diffuse, and directly in the hands of...

November 29, 2005

Chesapeake Watershed Education Agreement: Fostering Chesapeake Stewardship (Signed)

By this agreement, the Executive Committee members commit themselves to continually work to ensure that  students have been exposed to concepts in environmental literacy and have examined strategies to foster their restoration and...

January 10, 2005

Endorsement of the Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience

The Chesapeake Bay is dependent upon the actions of every citizen in the watershed, both today and in the future. The Bay's future will soon rest in the hands of its youngest citizens. Our students, future Bay leaders, should be armed...

November 04, 2014

Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEE) serve as the foundation for a rich, lifelong relationship between students and their Bay.