Watershed: An Integrated Learning Program for Seventh Grade

Created by: Ed Silcox and Mark Springer

Implemented by: Jon Savitch and Banny Ackerman

jon.savitch@rtsd.org banny.ackerman@rtsd.org

610-386-6300 x7210

Watershed is a full day, full year, fully integrated program that encompasses students' entire seventh grade curriculum. Watershed covers the skills and concepts of traditional disciplines through an integrated and comprehensive examination of a specific watershed. The ultimate goal of the Watershed program is to promote the student's abilities to gather, retain, interrelate, apply and communicate first hand information; and to foster within each student a positive sense of responsibility for and pride in the improvement of those abilities.