From Students to Stewards: A Strategy for Institutionalizing Place-Based Education

• In Event: Poster Presentations

Session Submission Type: Poster Presentation

Summary

Learn about Michigan’s statewide collaboration to increase water literacy through place-based, problem-based, project-based (3P) learning focused on Great Lakes Literacy Principles and freshwater stewardship. Find out what we learned from exemplar schools, what resources we developed to help schools institutionalize this approach, and what’s next to grow the impact.

Sub Unit

• Enhancing Environmental Education in Formal Settings

Presenters

• Megan Schrauben, Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity

• Sam Lichtenwald, MAEOE/EGLE

Non-Attending Contributor

• Eileen Boekestein, Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy