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Environmental education brings an appreciation and understanding of the outdoors through hands-on, inquiry based learning experiences! Providing tools to educators to enhance environmental education topics helps to expand that knowledge to a greater number of students. These tools allow educators to increase student literacy with scientific methods, team building skills, and critical thinking.
Warren County SWCD offers workshops designed for educators of all grade levels. Workshops can be tailored to your class or group’s specific needs. A minimum of twelve participants is required. Program costs vary depending on materials required. Credits are offered for some workshops. Each year, SWCD Educators attend trainings around the state to stay ahead of changes in the standards and methods of teaching and conservation practices. To discuss the possibility of a workshop, please contact Melissa Proffitt or Marta Farrell, or visit our calendar to see if there is anything scheduled. Call (513) 695-3086 for Melissa or call (513) 695-2556 for Marta. |
Early ChildhoodGrowing Up Wild
Worm Bin Composting Environmental Experiences for Early Childhood |
Middle ChildhoodProject WET (Water Education for Teachers)
Project Learning Tree Project WILD Project Underground (Geology) Soils Worm Bin Composting |
High SchoolEnvirothon
Environmental Careers Project WET (Water Education for Teachers) Project Learning Tree Project WILD Healthy Water, Healthy People Rain Barrels Vermicomposting with Earthworms |
Environmental Education Events Calendar
http://epa.ohio.gov/calendar/oee.aspx
Mussels in The Classroom
A First In the Nation...Through its partnerships with Kentucky Fish & Wildlife Service, Ohio State University, and Thomas More College, ORF is pleased to offer Mussels in The Classroom (MIC), an extension of the River Explorer program to schools in Greater Cincinnati, Columbus (OH) and Lexington/Frankfort (KY).
FOR GRADES 1 thru 12:
Freshwater mussels are an often overlooked but important bio-indicator species of any watershed ecosystem that help illustrate the health of the environment.. Many species are imperiled and several are extinct. However, a determined and concerted effort is being made by several experts and agencies to raise and repatriate thousands of these "silent messengers of water quality" to rivers, creeks, and streams. Schools participating in MIC will be supporting this "cutting edge" scientific regional effort.
For those schools selected to participate, MIC will enable students to care for and raise freshwater mussels provided by ORF and its partners. At the beginning and during the experience, ORF will provide instruction and the students can take a field trip to a nearby freshwater mussel facility. The classroom activities will involve caring for live mussels in the classroom, including daily feeding, water changes, and temperature management. There are additional optional activities, as well opportunities for students and teachers to create new activities. Space is required for a 10-gallon tank as well as extra water and supplies. Students will monitor, feed, and share activity information with ORF and its partners and other participating schools. Feedback and advice by ORF staff and its partners will be provided.
While not a requirement, preferential consideration will be given to schools also participating in a River Explorer field trip (not applicable for Lexington area applicants).
Fees: Greater Columbus and Cincinnati schools: $100 for first 2 weeks. $50 each additional week.
All equipment (i.e., aquaria, filters, etc.), lesson plans, mussels, and supplies will be provided throught the program orgainization (linked in the box below). Duration can be 2 weeks up to 5 weeks. Availability is Sept. 1 thru Dec.15, Jan. 15 thru June 1. No application deadline: rolling.
FOR GRADES 1 thru 12:
Freshwater mussels are an often overlooked but important bio-indicator species of any watershed ecosystem that help illustrate the health of the environment.. Many species are imperiled and several are extinct. However, a determined and concerted effort is being made by several experts and agencies to raise and repatriate thousands of these "silent messengers of water quality" to rivers, creeks, and streams. Schools participating in MIC will be supporting this "cutting edge" scientific regional effort.
For those schools selected to participate, MIC will enable students to care for and raise freshwater mussels provided by ORF and its partners. At the beginning and during the experience, ORF will provide instruction and the students can take a field trip to a nearby freshwater mussel facility. The classroom activities will involve caring for live mussels in the classroom, including daily feeding, water changes, and temperature management. There are additional optional activities, as well opportunities for students and teachers to create new activities. Space is required for a 10-gallon tank as well as extra water and supplies. Students will monitor, feed, and share activity information with ORF and its partners and other participating schools. Feedback and advice by ORF staff and its partners will be provided.
While not a requirement, preferential consideration will be given to schools also participating in a River Explorer field trip (not applicable for Lexington area applicants).
Fees: Greater Columbus and Cincinnati schools: $100 for first 2 weeks. $50 each additional week.
All equipment (i.e., aquaria, filters, etc.), lesson plans, mussels, and supplies will be provided throught the program orgainization (linked in the box below). Duration can be 2 weeks up to 5 weeks. Availability is Sept. 1 thru Dec.15, Jan. 15 thru June 1. No application deadline: rolling.
Ohio Mussel Survey Protocol April 2018 pdf
Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Wildlife and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), Ohio Ecological Services Field Office
ODNR Species Highlight: Freshwater Mussels
Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Wildlife and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), Ohio Ecological Services Field Office
ODNR Species Highlight: Freshwater Mussels
STONE LABORATORY Workshops, Courses, Field trips and Events
stonelab.osu.edu/
The Ohio State University’s island campus on Lake Erie hosts 25+ college-credit courses and resume-building workshops each and every summer on their six-acre island in Put-in-Bay Harbor.
If you’re looking for additional learning outside the box — outside the classroom — visit Stone Laboratory.
stonelab.osu.edu/
The Ohio State University’s island campus on Lake Erie hosts 25+ college-credit courses and resume-building workshops each and every summer on their six-acre island in Put-in-Bay Harbor.
If you’re looking for additional learning outside the box — outside the classroom — visit Stone Laboratory.
Trout unlimited
Trout Unlimited's "Trout in the Classroom" Program
Contact Person: Kevin Kayle
Fish Hatchery Program Administrator
Ph: 614-265-6347
ODNR, Division of Wildlife
2045 Morse Rd. Bldg G-3; Columbus, OH 43229
Contact Person: Kevin Kayle
Fish Hatchery Program Administrator
Ph: 614-265-6347
ODNR, Division of Wildlife
2045 Morse Rd. Bldg G-3; Columbus, OH 43229
In this program, schools set up aquaria or living streams and are provided 100 rainbow trout or brown trout eggs. The students and teacher raise these juvenile fish from December thru April or May and release them at an approved location. Trout Unlimited and the Division of Wildlife/ODNR provide guidance in raising these fish. Chief’s letters to approve the stocking are supplied. Requests are needed by the end of each October; schools typically receive eggs in late November. 33 schools (classes) participated in 2016-17. The biggest year ever! If you know of any schools that might be interested, contact Kevin Kayle (contact info. above).
TIC Participating Schools in 2016-17
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Orrville High School
West Holmes Middle School Dalton Elementary School Mt Vernon High School Glen Oak School Malvern High School Hiland High School Pleasant Hill Welcome Center Westlake High School Archbishop Lyke Middle School |
St Ignatius High School
Communion of Saints School Avon Lake High School Baldwin Wallace University Benjamin Logan Middle School Benjamin Logan Elem School West Liberty Salem High School Graham Elementary School, St Paris (3) Urbana University Bellefontaine Middle School (2) |
Northwestern Middle School
Southdale Elementary School Fairfield High School Fairbanks High School Ella Canavan Elementary School Old Trail School Coventry Middle School Perry (Lake Co.) Middle School Donnell Middle School (Findlay) |
Trout Unlimited Home Page: https://tu.org/TICtu.org/TIC
TU Educational Resources: http://www.troutintheclassroom.org/
TU Educational Resources: http://www.troutintheclassroom.org/
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