The NOAA chesapeake BAY watershed education and training (b-wet) program will be providing $300,000 as a 2-year grant to pennsylvania state university to support the pennsylvania environmental…

The NOAA chesapeake BAY watershed education and training (b-wet) program will be providing $300,000 as a 2-year grant to pennsylvania state university to support the pennsylvania environmental literacy network (PA elit). PA elits project activities require enhanced coordination, training, and support for statewide capacity building of environmental literacy and meaningful watershed educational experiences (mwees) professional development that includes a deeper dive into sustainability, climate literacy, and agriculture education in pennsylvania k-12 schools. The roll-out of the pennsylvania department of educations k-12 science, technology & engineering, environmental literacy and sustainability (steels) academic standards coincide with this proposed project, specifically activities related to the integration of mwees in pennsylvanias k-12 schools. The network of pennsylvania certified mwee facilitators has expanded beyond the steering committee to include most of the pennsylvania intermediate unit science, technology, engineering and math (stem) point of contacts and many nonformal educators from environmental and outdoor education settings.