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Lamoille Summer Workshop 2005
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August 8-12, 2005
Exploring Nevada's Forests, Deserts and Wetlands
Lamoille Canyon, Ruby Mountains, Nevada
This summer the USDA Forest Service, with the support of Nevada Outdoor School, NNREC and the Nevada Division of Forestry, is offering a summer workshop for teachers, resource agency personnel and other educators in Lamoille Canyon in the Ruby Mountains of Nevada, near Elko. The Rubies are the perhaps the most beautiful range of the state, and Lamoille Canyon is the heart of the range.
Participants will receive four full days of training in Project Learning Tree (including Burning Issues) and Project WILD, Project WET, Project Archaeology, as well as other programs of environmental education that connect students and citizens to their place. You will leave with the PLT, WILD and WET curriculum guides and certificates of completion, a number of related resources, information on other environmental education curriculum and programs, information about agency contacts, a lesson plan or project ready to use, new friends, and a smile on your face.
Credit
Teachers can receive two units of inservice credit from the Nevada Department of Education, or for a cost of $160 can receive college credit from Great Basin College in Biological Field Studies.
Staff
The facilitators are Nevada licensed teachers and/or trained to faciliatate the 'Projects', and the guest presenters are resource professionals from many agencies and organizations throughout the state. The workshop is coordinated by Stephanie Lefevre of Nevada Outdoor School and NNREC (
, 775-625-2480), and Michelle Caviness of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest (
, 775-623-5025 x113).
Sign Up
Ready to sign up? Contact Stephanie Lefevre, 775-625-2480,
, or use the online registration page to pay via PayPal, or print and send the mail-in registration form. The registration fee is $50, which covers all instruction, materials meals, and on-site housing. Major funding from the USDA Forest Service and some funding from the Nevada Divsion of Forestry allows this low fee.
Schedule
Time |
Sunday |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
7:00-8:00 |
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Breakfast |
Breakfast |
Breakfast |
Breakfast |
Breakfast |
8:00-12:00 |
|
8:00-8:30 |
8:00-9:30 9:45-12:00 |
8-10: service learning mini grants/P Wild 10-12: service learning mini grants/P Wild
|
8-12 Clean up Closing evaluations
|
|
12:00-1:00 |
|
LUNCH |
LUNCH |
LUNCH |
Sack LUNCH Provided |
Out of camp by 12:00 |
1:00-3:00 |
|
PWet/PLT |
PWet/PLT |
noxious weeds |
Mini mart/resource folks workshop |
|
3:00-5:00 |
Arrival/check in if desired |
Gardening with kids/Hike |
Leave No Trace |
PA/Pwild |
Networking with educators and resource folks |
|
5:00-6:00 |
Free Time |
Free Time |
Free Time |
Free Time |
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|
6:00-7:00 |
On own for dinner |
Dinner Aqua notes |
Dinner |
Dinner |
Out to dinner |
|
8:00-9:00 |
Free time |
Family Astro/star party |
invertebrates workshop |
Emigrant Trail Interpretive program |
Out to dinner |
|
Topics & Presenters
Workshops
Project Learning Tree (PLT)
Facilitator: Dan Allison, SWEP,
, 775-882-2375 (Nevada licensed teacher)
Project Learning Tree is an award-winning environmental education program, designed for teachers and other educators, parents, and community leaders working with youth from preschool through grade 12. The focus will be on the forests of the Ruby Mountains and how they compare to forests in southern and western Nevada, on issues in fire and fuels management, and on using environmental education to support standards and literacy objectives. Participants will receive a PreK-8 guide or secondary guides, as appropriate, and other materials. Syllabus
Project WET (P Wet)
Facilitators: Mary Kay Reidl, NDEP,
, 775-687-9454 & Nevan Kane, NDEP,
Project WET (Water Education for Teachers) is a nonprofit water education program and publisher for educators and young people ages 5-18. The program facilitates and promotes awareness, appreciation, knowledge, and stewardship of water resources through the dissemination of classroom-ready teaching aids and the establishment of internationally sponsored Project WET programs.
Project WILD & WILD Aquatic (P Wild)
Facilitators: Shirley Pollock, Washoe CSD, 775-848-2180 (Nevada licensed teacher & Anga Rebane,
, 775-831-9456 (Nevada licensed teacher)
The program emphasizes wildlife because of its intrinsic and ecological values, as well as its importance as a basis for teaching how ecosystems function. In the face of competing needs and pressures affecting the quality and sustainability of life on earth, Project WILD addresses the need for human beings to develop as responsible citizens of our planet.
Project Archaeology (PA)
Facilitator: Dianne Valentin,
, 801-261-2260
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has developed "Intrigue of the Past," a series of activities to be used in classrooms to increase a variety of skills such as math, science, writing, and reading. The activities are based on archeology and use both technical and analytical aspects.
Presentations
Gardening with Kids
Presenter: Jaimie Minich, NOS,
, 775-625-0689
Explore the world of classroom gardening, learn innovative techniques and how you can start an educational garden in your school
Upper Lamoille Canyon Hike
Leader: Dan Allison
Get out and discover the beauty of Lamoille Canyon on a plant identification hike.
Noxious Weeds
Presenters: Marney and Brett
Learn the importance of native plant species within the ecosystem, how to identify noxious weeds and what to do about them.
Mini Market
Explore local resources to be used in the field and classroom such as Lovelock cave Interpretive trail and curriculum, water Canyon trail and curriculum and Interpretive kits specific to the Black Rock Desert High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area. Posters, handouts and many other goodies available from various resource agencies and education organizations.
Family Astro
Presenters: Jaimie Minich, NOS,
, 775-625-0689 & Jeff Weigel, NOS,
, 775-625-7019
Astronomical Society of the Pacific developed Family ASTRO to help families, youth groups, after-school clubs, and everyone else learn and enjoy some of the exciting ideas that underpin our understanding of the universe. An important aim of the program is to help parents (and other caregivers) to get more involved in their children’s science education, and to spend more time together in active experiments, observations, and discussion.
Emigrant Trail Interpretive Program, Women Headed West
Presenter: Nevada Outdoor School
Service Learning/Mini-Grants
Presenter: Stephanie Lefevre, NOS,
, 775-625-2480
Put your new knowledge into action. Learn how to assist your students in setting up an action project and how to get funding to make the project a reality. Please come with your school or non-profit letter head and 501c3 number.
Leave No Trace
Presenter: Jeff Weise, FS,
, 760-932-5824 (LNT Master Educator)
Leave No Trace is a national outdoor skills and ethics education program. The activities in this booklet were created to help share the value and importance of Leave No Trace principles with young people; many can be adapted for adults. The following information describes how the activities are designed and how to fit them to your personal needs.
Trout in the Classroom
Presenters: Norv Dallin, NDOW,
, 775-777-2391 & Kelly Clark, NDOW,
, 775-688-1555
Trout in the Classroom (TIC) is an educational program tied to the curricula for 4th and 5th grades, to teach students about the science, art, recreation and other values of fish and aquatic life.
Invertebrates
Presenter: Phyllis Dallin
Collecting identifying and learning more about the species that fill our Nevada streams, fun and exciting activities to do in and out of the classroom that meet science standards.
* * Modified 2008-04-12