High School Programs

Field Trips, Community Service, and Cleanups

We have a variety of ways High School students can get out there and help our river. Cleanups at riverside parks near you, park adoption programs, legacy projects for graduating classes, and rainwater barrel projects are some of the different things we can offer. Please visit our Field Trip page for more program opportunities, or fill out a Program Request Form for more info and to get started!

Do you have students that want a regular monthly opportunity to clean up the St. Johns River? Join us for our monthly cleanup on McCoys Creek in our River’s Lower Basin led by Rising Tides, our Young Professionals Group. Visit our Events page for more information. Waiver forms required for anyone under the age of 18.

Water Quality

Test the water quality of the St. Johns River or one of its tributaries. Work in small groups to run the tests such as temperature, salinity, pH, turbidity, Nitrite/Nitrates and Ammonia, and analyze the data to get an understanding of the waters overall health. Discuss how human activity impacts our waterways and how we can avoid the repercussions.  *This program can be performed once or as a year-long river study. We provide all materials for teachers to conduct studies independently.

Max 25 students per program.

Eutrophication Experiment

NOTE: Due to resource and availability constraints, we are not able to support this program at this time. However, we will be happy to provide the lesson plan for it.

Nutrient pollution is one of the biggest issues the St. Johns River faces. The influx of nutrients from fertilizer and animal waste can cause HABs resulting in fish kills and SAV reduction. This lab simulates the effect of nitrogen and phosphorus on freshwater algae using a common plant fertilizer. Students will measure turbidity and dissolved oxygen multiple times in order to generate graphs from their classes data to show the change of time across the four treatment groups. 

Visit our Resource pages to watch documentaries on the algae blooms in our St. Johns River

Please contact us if you would like the lesson plan for this project.