Chesapeake Connections
Chesapeake Connections reaches every 6th grade student through an engaging, real-world restoration program. Learning starts in the classroom when Chesapeake Connections visits the students for a pre-trip lesson aimed at building background knowledge and generating excitement. Students then embark on an environmental stewardship field experience where they explore a local ecosystem and engage in a number of activities. Chesapeake Connections combines learning, stewardship, and exploration in a local setting and encourages students to apply their in-classroom learning to real-world environmental problems and their solutions. The Chesapeake Connections restoration project varies for each school and may involve participation in a stormwater restoration planting, oyster restoration, reforestation project, or climate data collection study.
*The Chesapeake Connections Program fulfils the 10 hour service learning requirement for the 6th graders.
![Two students holding a vial of water and a testing card.](https://www.arlingtonecho.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/IMG_2792.jpg)
![Students walking through a large field of grass.](https://www.arlingtonecho.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/IMG_1487-1024x768.jpg)
![Two students planting a small tree.](https://www.arlingtonecho.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/IMG_7381-edited-768x1024.jpg)
![One students holding net standing in a rocky stream.](https://www.arlingtonecho.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/IMG_1876.jpg)
![A group of students standing in front of a waterfall with their arms raised in excitement.](https://www.arlingtonecho.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/IMG_3918-1-1024x768.jpg)
Partners of Chesapeake Connections
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Contacts
Eรณin Oneill eoneill@aacps.org
Anna Youngk aeyoungk@aacps.org
Amanda Miller akmiller@aacps.org
Arlington Echo 410-222-3822