For a few immersive days on Dragon Run, teachers stepped into the shoes of students. The last week of July marked the second year Friends of the Dragon Run hosted Middle Peninsula educators as part of the Dragon Run Environmental Academy Mentorship (DREAM) program.
For three days, DREAM takes educators out into the field and onto the waters of Dragon Run to teach them about the local watershed and help them develop lessons to take back to students. All of this is made possible by the FODR DREAM Team, composed of retired teachers and master naturalists: Molly Broderson, Carol Kauffman, Dave Norman, Terry Skinner, Bambi Thompson and Susan Walton.
This year, participants came from three school districts: Gloucester, King and Queen and Middlesex. The first two days involved familiarizing educators with the Dragon Run through kayak paddle trips, hikes, and lessons on watersheds, local species, water quality, citizen science and biodiversity.
On the last day, with their new knowledge and exp...