As part of Caring for Our Watersheds, students in a fifth-grade class at Jamestown Elementary learned from a Master Naturalist and parent volunteer about the issues facing the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. They realized how much they had not known previously and were inspired to create a buddy system in which students in their grade could teach younger students about the issues facing their watershed.

Fifth grade students went in prepared and had various games and resources to teach their third-grade buddies about the watershed. A week later they had the third-grade students create posters based on what they had learned. Creative awards were given, and the posters remained on the school walls for the course of the school year. This unique project increased awareness and communicated to all how they can protect the environment in small and simple ways.