Watershed Radio wants watershed residents to open their eyes, look around, and see the watershed as the special ecological place that it is. Watershed Radio provides science-based information about different htmlects of the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

Watershed Radio is particularly suited to be used in the classroom as a recurring environmental education moment. Watershed Radio programs can support students in developing reading, writing, and listening skills as well as in developing a deeper understanding of the complex interactions between people, animals, plants, and water and other non-living components of the watershed.

New: A Watershed Radio Teacher Resources CD
To help you use Watershed Radio in the classroom, we have developed a Watershed Radio teacher resources CD with education activities connected to twenty popular Watershed Radio programs. To request a free copy of this CD, please contact us.

If you are interested in becoming more actively involved in Watershed Radio, please consider joining our Watershed Radio teacher advisory group. We envision Watershed Radio to be an excellent environmental education tool for students in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, but we need your professional ideas to connect Watershed Radio with state and national science learning outcomes. If you are interested or have questions, please contact us.

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Using Watershed Radio in the classroom

We have listed here some of our suggestions for using Watershed Radio in the classroom, but we strongly encourage you to contact us and share your experiences with using Watershed Radio in the classroom and order your free copy of the new Watershed Radio Teacher Resources CD.

• Practice finding specific information in a text or website.
  This website is a growing source of information (see archive) on the Chesapeake Bay watershed and students can practice finding specific information in the site or in the scripts of the Watershed Radio programs and the accompanying background information.
  
  
• Develop listening and comprehensive reading skills
  The short one-minute radio spots provide the opportunity to develop reading and listening skills. As a teacher, you could ask a question related to the text of the program and then have your students specifically listen for the answer.
  
  
• Develop research and writing skills
  Students can research a watershed-related topic and contribute the topic idea to Watershed Radio. Your students could also write their own one-minute script for a program, a challenging activity (as the Watershed Radio producers experience every day) from which your students will gain writing experience.
  
  Please note: We can't promise to use scripts that are developed this way, but we are very interested in any school's research or writing project that relates to Watershed Radio. If you are using Watershed Radio in the classroom, please contact us.

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