SEWEE Association

The SEWEE Association offers environmental education programs through our partners at their facilities and on their public land.

Since 1999 we have been partnering with local elementary schools in the Sewee Earth Stewards program. This is a multi-week program focused on our freshwater wetlands and swamps, designed using the curriculum standards for fifth-grade. Our staff works with the teachers to present lessons and activities in the classroom and field studies in the Forest or on our Refuges. Students participate in hands-on, interactive classes and learn first-hand the purposes of this habitat within the coastal plain.

This program has now been modified to allow more schools to particpate and to include middle schools. During the 2008-2009 school year, we will have 13 schools with over 700 students and teachers in this program.

TEACHERS:

We also offer many lessons at the Sewee Center on Freshwater Wetlands, Forests, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Salt Marsh Ecology and animals found within the Coastal Plain of South Carolina. These lessons are designed for the one-day visit and are available for grades K-12.

For more information on classes that are available, click here for a listing of programs and then contact Julie Binz at 843-928-3368 or juliebinz@earthlink.net.

Students learn about water quality at I'on Swamp in the

Francis Marion National Forest

Our Sewee Earth Stewards Schools

Click on the school to see what our students are doing this year!

Charleston County

• Archibald Rutledge Academy
• Belle Hall Elementary
• McClellanville Middle
• Minnie Hughes Elementary
• Stono Park Elementary
• St. James-Santee Elementary
• Sullivan's Island Elementary

Berkeley County

• Boulder Bluff Elementary

Georgetown County

• Browns Ferry Elementary
• Carvers Bay Middle
• McDonald Elementary
• Plantersville Elementary
• Pleasant Hill Elementary

Minnie Hughes Elementary