WaterWays - Nature-Based Solutions

Meet and speak to your neighbors and listen to the problems in the community before helping equip your neighborhood against environmental threats like heat, air pollution, and flooding. Learn about nature-based solutions before using them to save the day!

• Developed in collaboration with the Wildlife Conservation Society, Hudson River Park and Mount Sinai's Transdisciplinary Center for Early Environmental Exposure, with funding support from the National Institutes of Health.

Nature-Based Solutions includes:

• A personalized digital science journal and an augmented reality experience, accessible by phone or browser using webVR.
• 40 minutes of interactive activities where students are scientists engaged with water science and water stewardship.
• Assessment dashboard for educators to monitor and scaffold student learning

Next Generation Science Standards:

Science Engineering Practices

• Developing and Using Models
• Analyzing and Interpreting Data
• Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions
• Engaging in Argument from Evidence
• Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

Disciplinary Core Idea:

• LS2.A Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
• LS2.B Matter and Energy Transfer in Ecosystems
• LS2.C Ecosystem Dynamics, Functioning, and Resilience
• LS4.D Biodiversity and Humans
• ETS1.A Defining Engineering Problems
• ETS1.C Optimizing the Design Solution
• ESS2.A Earth Materials and Systems
• ESS3.C Human Impacts on Earth Systems

Crosscutting Concepts

• Systems and System Models
• Cause and Effect
• Patterns
• Energy and Matter
• Scale Proportion and Quantity

Connections to Excellence in Environmental Education - Guidelines for Learning (K-12)

• Strand 1 (Analysis and Interpretation Skills): A, C, E, F, G
• Strand 2 (Environmental Processes and Systems): 2.1 A, B. 2.2 A, C, D. 2.3 A. 2.4 A,E
• Strand 3 (Skills for Understanding and Addressing Environmental Issues): 3.1 A, B, C
• Strand 4 (Personal and Civic Responsibility): B, C