What environmental issues affect the place where you live? Observe, ask questions, investigate, take action, and deepen your students’ scientific understanding and connection to their local watersheds. VitalVenture’s interdisciplinary, inquiry-based curriculum engages Maine students in grades 5-8 with meaningful, relevant watershed experiences sustained over four grades. Students gain increasing independence as learners, thinkers, and problem-solvers as they build on prior years’ experiences. This website promotes the ongoing sharing of resources, experiences, and best practices around this evolving curriculum.
What species live in your neighborhood? Students explore, discover, and investigate species living in their local watershed habitats and the connections they have to them.
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What environmental issues affect the place where you live? Observe, ask questions, investigate, take action, and deepen your students’ scientific understanding and connection to their local watersheds. VitalVenture’s interdisciplinary, inquiry-based curriculum engages Maine students in grades 5-8 with meaningful, relevant watershed experiences sustained over four grades. Students gain increasing independence as learners, thinkers, and problem-solvers as they build on prior years’ experiences. This website promotes the ongoing sharing of resources, experiences, and best practices around this evolving curriculum.
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Wiscasset 8th grade get a firsthand experience clamming along the Sheepscot River Watershed. Learn more »
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VitalVenture was co-developed with Maine teachers. Learn more »
Hands-on activities get students outside exploring their environment. Learn more »
Featured Watershed Experience
What species live in your neighborhood? Students explore, discover, and investigate species living in their local watershed habitats and the connections they have to them.
VitalVenture In Action
Students throughout Maine are having Watershed Experiences. Read the latest on the Case Study page, and share your own with us!