Watershed Workshop at Camp Albemarle
For our project, we addressed the public in the Charlottesville area concerning how their actions directly affect the Chesapeake Bay. Specifically, our objectives included implementing a watershed workshop at Camp Albemarle (an environmental camp for elementary-aged students) in which we worked with four different activities: benthic macro-invertebrate stream monitoring, an enviroscape, a soil-box erosion experiment, and a nature trail.
Watershed Workshop,Camp Albemarle, Albemarle County, Charlottesville, water, sustainability, environment, pollution, soil-erosion, Chesapeake, nature trail, Adrianne Adams, Allie Conn, Amber Osinga, Andrew Revelle
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Watershed Workshop at Camp Albemarle

WatershedWorkshopCampAlbemarle (click PDF)

Fall 2010

Team members: Adrianne Adams, Allie Conn, Amber Osinga, Andrew Revelle

For our project, we addressed the public in the Charlottesville area concerning how their actions directly affect the Chesapeake Bay. Specifically, our objectives included implementing a watershed workshop at Camp Albemarle (an environmental camp for elementary-aged students) in which we worked with four different activities: benthic macro-invertebrate stream monitoring, an enviroscape, a soil-box erosion experiment, and a nature trail.

With these activities, we were able to test the children’s knowledge of watersheds in general and relate this information to their local area. We did this by asking the children questions before and after each activity to see how much they learned, and by phrasing our questions within the context of the local Rivana Watershed.

On two separate occasions we worked this camp with home-schooled students in the area, as well with an Albemarle public school. Both of these groups consisted of fourth graders preparing for their SOLs (of which watersheds and the scientific method are a part).

We believe our objectives successfully accomplished our goal of improving each child’s awareness on how their individual actions can create pollution that can filter into the Rivana Watershed, as well as specific preventative methods to ensure environmental sustainability.