The Black River Watershed Education Project

Co-sponsored by Common Ground and the Environmental Studies Program of Oberlin College

"Education can enact the principal of confluence... [Students] combine science, art, and writing in a localized practice of attentiveness. From studying the rainfall, forests, seasons, and migrations of their own hillsides, they gain a context within which to understand the ocean and the atmosphere. They experience the beauty and resourcefulness of nature near their homes before turning their attention to the environmental problems of our day." -John Elder, Director of Stories in the Land Initiative of the Orion Society The Fundamentals of Watershed Education The 1996-1997 Pilot Program Participants The Watershed Project into 2002 Watershed Curriculum Teachers Resources Photographs