Abstract
The Curriculum and Community Enterprise for the Restoration of New York Harbor Through New York City Public Schools is a project that is both an education and restoration initiative. The project began with the vision that public school curricula— particularly in STEM-C (science, technology, engineering, and math, plus computing) content areas—can be enhanced by explicitly linking teaching and learning to a localized environmental science project that demands authentic research, data collection, and experimentation. In New York City, there are numerous local environmental problems that merit student inquiry research; however, none is more fundamental than the question of human impacts on the city’s watershed.
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Lauren Birney ([email protected]) is assistant professor of STEM education in the School of Education at Pace University in New York, New York. You can follow her on Twitter: @lbbirney.
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Lauren Birney
Lauren Birney ([email protected]) is assistant professor of STEM education in the School of Education at Pace University in New York, New York. You can follow her on Twitter: @lbbirney.