SANDWATCH

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SANDWATCH

• AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Associated Schools Project Network Environment
and Development in Coastal Regions and Small
Islands Office for the Caribbean
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Vision statement

• Sandwatch seeks to change the lifestyle and
  habits of youth and adults on a community-wide
  basis and to develop awareness of the fragile
  nature of the marine and coastal environment and
  the need to use it wisely

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Background

• A group of teachers and students meeting in
  Tobago in July 1998 at an Environmental Education
  workshop saw firsthand many of the problems
  facing the coastal zone problems related to
  erosion, pollution and development and resolved
  to do something about these issues themselves.
  This was the beginning of Sandwatch.

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Specific objectives

• Involve school students of all ages in the
  scientific observation, measurement and analysis
  of beaches utilizing an inter-disciplinary
  approach
• Assist school students, with the help of
  teachers, parents and local communities, to apply
  the information to the wise management and
  enhancement of their beaches
• Reduce the level of pollution in adjoining seas
  and oceans

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Activities

• 1999 Project design endorsement by countries
• 2001 Teacher training regional workshop
• 2001-3 Students teachers monitor beaches
• 2003 Inter-regional workshop to share
  experiences
• 2004-5 Schools work with communities to address
  beach-related issues through a Community
  Sandwatch Competition
• 2005 Sandwatch manual published
• 2006 onwards Assessment expansion to include
  more schools and application of the Sandwatch
  approach to other ecosystems, e.g. rivers

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Countries involved

• Bahamas Barbados
• Cook Islands (Pacific) Cuba
• Dominican Republic Dominica
• San Andres Archipelago (Colombia)
• St. Kitts Nevis St. Lucia,
• St. Vincent the Grenadines
• Seychelles (Indian Ocean)
• Trinidad and Tobago

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Sandwatch approach 1. Scientific measurement

• Selecting a beach to monitor
• Observing and recording
• Measuring erosion and accretion
• Beach composition
• Human activities on the beach
• Beach debris
• Water quality
• Waves
• Longshore currents
• Plants and animals

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Sandwatch approach 2. Data analysis

• Incorporating the activities into all parts of
  the curriculum
• Analysing the results
• Identifying issues
• Making conclusions

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Sandwatch approach 3. Using science for
sustainable island living

• Cuban students sensitized construction workers at
  a beach hotel about beach conservation
• Bahamian students worked with their community to
  replant sand dunes after the 2004 hurricanes

• Students in Barbados evaluated human health risks
  caused by animals on the beach

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Students on Bequia, filled and landscaped a
dump site, erected park benches, planted
trees and made it a recreational site.
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Students and teachers combined both
traditional and High Tech equipment on the
beaches to make learning fun.
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Data collected on beaches is used to form the
base for many classroom activities, school based
assessments at the regional exam ( CXC) and for
national interest.
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Breaking bottles

• Breaking bottles

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Small beach in Market area
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Large volume of glass on beach
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Breaking glass into smaller pieces
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Preparing the mixture
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Forms for benches
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Casting the sides of the bench in place
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Wood collected for seats from building lots
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Preparing wooden seats
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Bench dedicated to a friend
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Solid benches
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Garbage used for collecting Garbage
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A completed project
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Bequia is a beautiful place we must strive to keep
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Final remarks

• Sade and Shurlan (two Sandwatch students in
  Trinidad) are learning that they have the power
  to make a difference in their community and the
  wider world. Their principal Avra Bernard
  describes the "attitude of caring" that Sandwatch
  is fostering in Mayaro, fishermen now think twice
  before dumping leftover fish on the beach