Strengthening Colorado’s Water & Forest Education Connections
Attention Classroom Teachers: $500 Mini-Grants Available!
Do your students understand the connection between healthy forests and healthy watersheds? Can they predict or explain the impact that forest fires or pine beetle infestations have at the faucet? Can they model how forests control of the amount and timing of snowmelt, storm flow, water quality, and sedimentation? If you have a great idea to help your students make the connection between forest conditions and water quality and quantity, the Colorado State Forest Service and the US Forest Service have funding available for you!
Ten $500 mini-grants will be awarded to Colorado K-12 classroom teachers to enhance forest watershed education experiences for their students. To encourage getting kids outdoors for hands-on, inquiry-based environmental learning, this funding can be used for field trips, supplies (waders, test kits, etc.), and professional training. Applications must be submitted online by 5:00pm on MONDAY, APRIL 4, 2011. Eligibility requirements and details are listed on the application at https://mail.colostate.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=0f2084e8d9bd4b70aefbd1ea9793639a&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.surveymonkey.com%2fs%2fS7PW6TS.
