Description: Meadowscaping for Biodiversity is a powerful, environmentally oriented, inquiry-based, service-learning project. This program will expose middle school youth to STEAM learning (following the Curriculum Frameworks) while empowering them to address real-world challenges to the environment and our society.
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The best remedy ...is to go outside
Learn how to be an ecosystems gardener. We’ll plant a healthy meadow of brightly colored native plants that attract pollinators and restore vital habitats that support biodiversity and all life. Find out how to be a citizen scientist.
Waltham, Massachusetts-based Meadowscaping for Biodiversity is an outdoor environmental education program for students of all ages. Participants repurpose monocultural turf lawn into meadows —productive, attractive ecosystems gardens with native flowers, shrubs, and grasses—to increase biodiversity, pollinators, and wildlife habitat.