NOAA B-WET

Artist Boat is looking for five Middle Schools to participate in a year of student directed place based Eco- Art during the 2025-2026 school year.

Reaching For the P.E.A.K of Student Directed Climate Solution through Place-based Eco Art Knowledge (P.E.A.K) will provide Professional Development to 15 teachers in five low income or Title 1 school districts to enable them to increase student climate literacy, student led decision making, and student determined climate action projects.

Each participating class will receive a series of workshops in Eco-Art, carbon footprint assessment, blue carbon, and creation of student selected Driving Questions and Action Projects.  Each class will also go on an Eco-Art Kayak Adventure to the Coastal Heritage Preserve and a Student Selected Field Adventure.

Artist Boat and expert community partners such as NOAA Office of Habitat Restoration, NOAA Flower Gardens Bank National Marine Sanctuary, NOAA Gulf of Mexico Mesophotic Deep Benthic Communities, City of Galveston, Moody Gardens, Rosenberg Library, National Weather Service, Texas A&M University of Galveston, NASA, and NOAA Office of Climate Science will support student’s curiosity as they learn to direct their own learning through Student Selected Field Adventures and as they execute age appropriate, small scale Action Projects.

This program encourages our community of underserved students to see themselves as scientists, creators and problem solvers.

This free program is funded through a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association Bay Watershed Education and Training grant.