The Mountain Institute is pleased to offer three Professional Development Workshops this summer to teachers and interested citizens. Learn, relax, and enjoy the beauty of The Mountain Institute’s Spruce Knob Mountain Center, located in West Virginia. TMI provides hands-on outdoor learning opportunities that stimulate students’ curiosity, understanding, and retention. Grant funding is available for WV Public School Teachers, other parties are more than welcome to attend for a modest fee. August 8-11th: Appalachian Watershed and Stream Monitors with TMI and Trout Unlimited: Open to teachers, watershed organizers, or concerned citizens. Immerse yourself in water quality monitoring techniques, stream restoration options with youth, and the wonders of headwaters streams while covering multiple science and social studies CSOs!
Program Highlights: · Citizen Science: all data is uploaded to the DEP Save Our Streams Database · Learn DEP ‘Save our Streams’ Monitoring protocols · Investigate water quality and watershed systems in a multi-tiered program · Bring your students on an overnight class field trip to the Spruce Knob Mountain Center to sample water quality in a model stream, participate in a restoration activity, and learn about watersheds · TMI staff and follow up with a visit to your community to help students collect local data · Compare and analyze results · Hypothesize connections between local land use and water quality
Participate in the workshop as a stand alone, or participate in the full program with your students. This workshop is offered for $450 (lodging, meals, materials, and instruction included). For more information, contact Kevin Stitzinger at 304-637-1255,
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or visit http://www.mountain.org/professional-development-opportunities Funding currently provided by: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Our Energy Corporation of America, WVDEP, and the Toyota USA Foundation. |
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