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Environmental Outreach: School Leadership in Urban Runoff Reduction Project (SLURRP)

The purpose of Living Classrooms Foundation's School Leadership in Urban Runoff Reduction Project (SLURRP) is to provide a sustainable and replicable project for urban schools that will help them attain a "Meaningful" Chesapeake Bay or Stream Outdoor Experience as defined by the Chesapeake Bay 2000 (C2K) Agreement. SLURRP provides a project-based learning experience for students that is centered on the question, "What is stormwater runoff pollution, and how can we help prevent it?" Activities include neighborhood trash reduction, storm drain stenciling and community outreach, rain barrel creation and implementation, storm drain research, and green space planting. This project is possible thanks to grant funding from the NOAA B-WET program.

Contact: Lorraine Andrews lorraine@livingclassrooms.org

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Honeywell’s Adventures in Environmental Leadership:

In 2008, Honeywell Hometown Solutions and the Living Classrooms Foundation joined together to help students from Dundalk and Logan Elementary Schools learn how to become environmental stewards in their communities through an environmental education program Honeywell's Adventures in Environmental Leadership: A Living Classrooms Program.  

During Adventures in Environmental Leadership, students and their teachers learn by doing.  They investigate the water cycle, learn how to conserve water and reduce runoff, construct rain barrels, map their local watershed, spearhead a neighborhood trash pickup, and transform their schoolyards into beautiful green spaces.

Adventures in Environmental Leadership is part of Living Classrooms Foundation’s acclaimed environmental education curriculum, School Leadership in Urban Runoff Reduction Project (SLURRP).  The project is fully aligned with the Maryland State Curriculum in science and has cross-curricular alignment in reading and math.  The program also supports the Chesapeake 2000 Agreement, a multi-state guide for Bay restoration and preservation projects and an important part of the state of Maryland’s education reform. Goals are to offer a meaningful watershed educational experience for every school student in the watershed and provide students and teachers alike with opportunities to directly participate in local restoration and protection projects.