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The Montana Watercourse offers tours, trunks, workshops and professional development opportunities for K-12 educators, non-formal educators, naturalists, troop leaders and any other water user.
Montana Watercourse is excited to offer 15 distinct programs for the 2011-2012 school year. If you are interested in a program, please call or email us!
- Program 1: Watershed tours that highlight service learning projects and wetland and riparian areas
- Program 2: Teacher-initiated service learning projects
- Program 3: Student-initiated local community education campaigns
- Program 4: Wetland and/or water quality curriculum development
- Program 5: Water festivals featuring non-point source pollution activities
- Program 6: Workshops, festivals, outdoor days, field trips and other such learning opportunities
- Program 7: Water monitoring trainings for teachers of new student monitoring groups (LI, LII)
- Program 8: Water monitoring trainings for existing student water monitoring groups (LI, LII, LIII)
- Program 9: Water Summit for Students and Teachers in Spring 2012
- Program 10: World Water Monitoring Days (WWMD)
- Program 11: Spring water monitoring collection days
- Program 12: Monitoring data uploads to data repositories
- Program 13: River Cleanup Campaigns
- Program 14: Integrated service-learning projects
- Program 15: Mentorship program
Why Water?
Learn about enhancing education through water-related subjects here.
Water Summit
Montana Watercourse’s annual Water Summit brings together teachers, students and experts from around the state to network and share ideas about Montana’s water quality. Educators and students alike engage in real-world learning experiences. These hands-on opportunities empower a new generation of citizens with the tools and knowledge to protect vital waters.
Previous year’s Water Summit participants learned about a beaver’s role in riparian areas, explored the chemical and physical parameters of local waterways, presented results of student-led water quality investigations, learned watershed mapping, investigated macroinvertebrate communities, and discovered the benefits of riparian vegetation in controlling stream bank erosion.