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Start Your Own STRAW
Community-based restoration can be ecologically effective and can bring people together. Schools can become hubs of community as students and teachers work with partners to do meaningful environmental work.
STRAW Model
The STRAW Project uses innovative strategies, sound scientific information, and wide-ranging partnerships to sustain a community-based education network focused on protecting and restoring critical ecosystem functions in North Bay creeks and wetlands.
Q&A
Three questionnaires to help you think through the initiation and development of your own environmental project.
Restoration Implementation
The most important thing to know about beginning a habitat restoration project is that a professional restorationist is needed to design and check your work.
Teacher Support
STRAW provides a wide range of resources and networking opportunities for educators.
Resources
Links to resources and bibliographies for helping you start your own STRAW project.
Community-based restoration can be ecologically effective and can bring people together. Schools can become hubs of community as students and teachers work with partners to do meaningful environmental work.To begin a STRAW-like project in your school and in your community, you need to identify partners, resources and a project. The following sections offer examples of project-building activities that might help you begin your own project.
What is a Watershed?
What is a Watershed?
This photo essay is an example of the information we discuss with students in their classroom before their restoration workday. It explains how STRAW got started, what a watershed is, parts of a watershed, specific threats to our watersheds, how restoration work helps the watershed, and what happens at a typical STRAW restoration. Many teachers we work with use our in-class presentation as an
STRAW Model
The STRAW Project uses innovative strategies, sound scientific information, and wide-ranging partnerships to sustain a community-based education network focused on protecting and restoring critical ecosystem functions in North Bay creeks and wetlands.
Q&A
Three questionnaires to help you think through the initiation and development of your own environmental project.
Restoration Implementation
The most important thing to know about beginning a habitat restoration project is that a professional restorationist is needed to design and check your work.
Teacher Support
STRAW provides a wide range of resources and networking opportunities for educators.
Resources
Links to resources and bibliographies for helping you start your own STRAW project.
