Ever wonder how big the Chesapeake Bay is? Or how many states are in the Bay watershed? Or how deep the Bay is? Learn all about the Bay by reading these interesting facts and figures.
Bay Backpack an online resource for teachers and environmental educators to engage students in hands-on learning about the Chesapeake Bay and its local waterways. Bay Backpack offers lesson plans and activities, field studies and more.
Visit our simple kids (adults, you're welcome too!) section for some fun and interesting things to do! Check out our puzzles, games, photos, facts, coloring books and underwater cams!
Learn about the many ways you can help the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed get healthy and reduce your impact on the natural environment while hitting the books at school.
Find the latest health information about the health of our nation's largest estuary - including living things such as blue crabs, striped bass and oysters
- and the important habitats and water quality that allows them to thrive.
Get to know the various critters and creatures that live in the Bay watershed. Our field guide breaks our the animals and plants by type and by habitat. We'll be adding new species of Bay critters every month.