K-12 Watershed Education Grants
The Public Outreach and Education Subcommittee (POES) has provided K-12 Education Grants to the following ten groups in 2000 and 2001.
Year 2001 Grants
Butte Environmental Council
Program: North State Tributary Monitoring Project
Funding: $8,000
Description: This project is designed to enhance water quality monitoring efforts in Butte County tributaries. BEC will be working with the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) and the Watershed Education Project (WEP) in Butte County to schedule
and implement training of volunteers and continue the ongoing sampling of the local streams. Local conservation, education, and watershed groups will be invited to participate in these activities. In addition, BEC will use grant funds to promote watershed
and water quality awareness in Butte County by providing community members with educational resources, monitoring training, and monitoring events.
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Yolo Basin Foundation
Program: Access to the Flyway
Funding: $8,000
Water Education Foundation
Program: Project WET: Reaching out to Sacramento’s Low Income Schools
Funding: $8,000
Year 2000 Grants
In February 2000, the Public Outreach and Education Subcommittee (POES) issued a Request for Proposals for K-12 Watershed Education Grants, and evaluated the proposals received by the deadline of March 15. Seven projects were funded, and are listed here.
California Waterfowl Association
Program: Wild About Wetlands - Marsh Madness Program
Funding: $5,000
Description: The WAW Marsh Madness Program provides a thematic wetland and wildlife ecosystem resource kit ("Wild about Wetlands" Kits), lesson plans and a hands-on field day experience to fourth through sixth grade students and teachers. The program
focuses on isolated and under-served schools that experience barriers to implementing conservation education.
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Chico Unified School District
Program: Watershed Education Project: Water Quality Training and Curriculum Development for Teachers
Funding: $10,000
Description: The CUSD, WEP will train teachers and parent volunteers in the collection, analysis and archiving of aquatic bioassessment data, which will be used both in classrooms and by the public. Teachers will then visit local watersheds in an all-day
water quality field trip. Watershed-related curriculum and materials will be purchased and housed in the resource lending library, which was established for the WEP and is housed at Marsh Jr. High School in Chico, CA.
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Explorit Science Center
Program: Exploring the Wonders of Our Wetlands
Funding: $10,000
Description: The Explorit Science Center, a hands-on museum in Davis, CA, will develop a wetlands program using the city's wetlands as educational resource. This will result in increased accessibility to the wetlands as well as the provide programs
that illuminate the unique features of wetlands.
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Fall River Joint Unified School District, Burney Elementary School
Program: Our Watershed - A Living Classroom
Funding: $10,000
Description: Field studies of local water ecosystems will serve to expand the classroom into the local watershed. An outdoor watershed mural and working scale model of the local watershed will take the student's knowledge, pride and appreciation for
the local watershed to the community. The mural will be painted on a wall at Burney Elementary School. It will depict the ecosystem and human interaction changes in the watershed from its origin to the Pacific Ocean. The working watershed model will be built
at Burney Elementary as well. It will contain major mountains and waterways in the watershed, and be powered by a solar water pump that will recirculate the water. A native plant demonstration garden will be established in association with the watershed model.
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Placer Nature Center
Program: Watershed Explorations
Funding: $4,587
Description: PNC's Watershed Explorations is a series of two classes; Rivers and Ridges and Streamkeepers. The goals of this project are twofold. First is to build watershed awareness in the students. Second is to educate the students on watershed
issues and concerns. Ultimately inspiring stewardship through the series of relevant experiences. The students will then docent at PNC's Watershed Education Center as well as make presentations to local high schools and civic groups.
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Sacramento River Discovery Center
Program: Natural Resource Academy Intern Training
Funding: $9,680
Description: This project consists of the training of 45 high school interns who will then work at the Sacramento River Discovery Center 90 minutes per day for a total of 180 days during the 2000-2001 school year. The students will provide docent programs
for school groups on a variety of watershed topics.
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South Yuba River Citizens League
Program: Developing a Nature Observation Area
Funding: $5,000
Description: SYRCL, in conjunction with Nevada County Watershed Alliance for Teaching Environmental Responsibility (WATER), the Yuba Watershed Council (YWC), Nevada County Superintendent of Schools and California State University Chico, is assisting
high school students in developing a Nature Observation Area. This grant will help in the completion of the first phase of the project, which includes a watershed management plan.
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