Watsonville Wetlands Watch
Project SEE
Slough-Based Environmental Education
Since 2006, Pajaro Valley High School (PVHS) teachers and Watsonville Wetlands Watch (WWW) staff have been collaborating to create hands-on experiential curricula that utilize the freshwater wetland system surrounding the school and the WERC (Fitz Wetlands Educational Resource Center). Field trips, data collection, and interpretation of findings are a key part of each lesson plan’s design to provide meaningful experiences for high school students at all levels.
With the help of WWW staff, a curriculum specialist, and volunteers, PVHS teachers have piloted every lesson at least once. These lessons are currently being revised and the final lessons will be available on our website shortly!
In the meantime, feel free to check out our work in progress. Subject areas:
- Math
- English
- Spanish
- Social Studies
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Integrated Sciences (ICS)
- Environmental Science
- Art
Project SEE has been made possible by grants from the NOAA B-WET program and the Monterey Peninsula Foundation. We are currently seeking additional funds to further implementation through one-on-one teacher training with this curriculum in other local high schools.
Find out more about Project SEE
- For an overview of the program, visit the Fitz WERC website.
- Read an article from the Fall 2007 issue of our newsletter, The Watch: Science Illustration: A Project SEE Case Study
