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in the Global Community: Lead, SD & Uganda |
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Robin Dirksen, Lead high school teacher,
incorporates water quality monitoring in partnership with
students from Gulu, Uganda. Read more about this exciting
project at:
Bridging Classrooms and Cultures,
Water Quality Monitoring, and
Englewood Springs Monitoring. You
may contact Robin at
Robin.Dirksen@k12.sd.us for more information. |
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| Biomonitoring |
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Extend ecology study beyond a
few rushed days at the end of school. Biomonitoring is a year long
ecology study project developed by former SDSU professor Dr. Jerry
Kruger. Biomonitoring gets your students outside doing
real world science. The
overview of biomonitoring discusses getting started with
bird and plant monitoring. Documents
Getting Started in Biomonitoring
Biomonitoring Correlations to 9-12 SD Science Content Standards
Excel Version
PDF Version |
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| South Dakota Project Learning Tree
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SD PLT is an award-winning,
interdisciplinary environmental education program for educators
working with students in PreK through grade 12. PLT helps
students gain awareness and knowledge of the natural and built
environment, their place within it, as well as their
responsibility for it. |
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South Dakota PLT
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Project Learning Tree |
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| South Dakota Project
WILD |
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Project Wild teaches students how to
think not what to think about fish and wildlife
conservation. The curriculum guides contain over 260
activities for K-12. Curricula such as Flying Wild
and Science and Civics also available. |
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South Dakota Project WILD |
Project Wild |
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| South Dakota Project WET* |
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WET (Water Education for Teachers) trains and
equips educators to teach about all aspects of water. In
addition to the 90+ activities offered in the Guide, WET
offers Healthy Water, Healthy People, a water quality
monitoring curriculum and Discover A Watershed: Missouri
River, a 4-12 science and geography curriculum. |
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Dakota Project WET |
Project WET |
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| South Dakota
Ag in the Classroom |
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Ag In The Classroom is a
nationwide program designed to help students develop an
awareness and understanding of our food and fiber system, and
how agriculture impacts our daily lives. Ag In The Classroom (AITC)
provides training and resources to use agriculture as a vehicle
to teach across existing curriculum. |
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South Dakota
Ag in the Classroom |
Ag in the Classroom |
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| Leopold Education Project |
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The Leopold Education Project (LEP) uses the
writings of renowned conservationist, Aldo Leopold, and related
field investigations to foster critical thinking about and
understanding of the land as a community. |
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South Dakota LEP
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Agencies & Organizations |
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Badlands National Park:
Activities |
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Black Hills State Collegiate
Outdoor Leadership Program |
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Bramble Park Zoo |
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Custer State Park |
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East Dakota Water Development District |
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EPA Region 8
Environmental Ed |
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Contact
Wendy Dew |
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Flandreau Sioux Tribe |
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Contact: Vikki Kujawa – 997-3891 |
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| Haakon County Conservation District |
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Natural
Resource Conservation Service (US Dep't of Ag) |
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National Wildlife Refuges in South Dakota (US Fish &
Wildlife) |
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The Outdoor Campus |
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Roots
and Shoots (affiliated with
Bramble Park Zoo) |
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Contact: Barb Struwe – 882-6269 |
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South Dakota Ag in the
Classroom |
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South Dakota Association of
Conservation Districts |
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South Dakota Discovery Center* |
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South Dakota Game,
Fish & Park Outdoor Learning |
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South Dakota Geological
Survey |
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United States Fish and Wildlife Service
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Contact Jennifer Briggs -
605-256-2974 |
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Water Resources Institute |
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Contact: Dave German -
605-688-4910 |
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Wind Cave National Park |
* Indicates organizational member of EECSD |
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Lesson Plans, Kits & Activities |
| Kits |
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Critter Crates.
Critter crates are resource trunks filed with furs, skulls,
activities and more! Each crate requires a $75 deposit. Crates
available throughout the state include: Mammal Crate A, Mammal
Crate B, Bat Crate, Coyote Crate, Elk Crate, Endangered Species
Crate, Grassland/Sod Box, Prairie Crate, and Tree Trunk.
GEMS Kits. K-8. Free
for teacher members of
the SD Discovery Center. Fee applies for non-members. Great
Explorations in Math & Science kits feature everything you need
to lead inquiry based learning on nature and the outdoors.
See the
GEMS page for a complete list of kits and rental
information.
Water
Quality Monitoring Kits. 6-12. Water quality
monitoring kits provides equipment to sample water quality for
dissolved oxygen, temperature, pH and transparency. Can be
used as part of World Water Monitoring Day. Contact the SD
Discovery Center, 605-224-8295.
Secret Agent Worm
Soil Science Kit. 4-8. Learn about soil and water with
Secret Agent Worms! Contact the SD Discovery Center,
605-224-8295.
Macromania
Game. 4 - 12. Simulate sorting macroinvertebrates
and interpreting the results to determine water quality.
Contact the SD Discovery Center, 605-224-8295.
Enviroscape. 3-12. Demonstrate how run off can carry
pollutants into rivers, lakes and streams as well as how best
practices can reduce pollution. Contact the SD Discovery Center,
605-224-8295. Wetlands Trunk. K- 4. Features games, books,
posters and puppets to teach students about wetlands.
Contact: SD Discovery Center 605-224-8295 |
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| Lesson Plans &
Activities |
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Incredible Journey. An activity from Project WET on the
Water Cycle. Requires ADOBE. |
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Environmental Exchange Box. A sample Project Learning
Tree activity. |
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Make Your Own Paper A sample Project Learning Tree
activity. |
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The Natural Source.
SD specific adaptations to Project WILD. |
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Water Festival Activities. Plans for the activities and
supplemental activities featured at the Big Sioux Water Festival
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Links and References |
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Historical EE Resources
Our generation is not the only one to
see the need to educate students about the environment.
Enviro. Ed. can trace its lineage back to the Progressive Era
when conservation was on the national agenda in a way that it
never had been before.
Below are
historical examples of "old school" EE. They
take the form of publications available on Google Books. Then,
as now, interested parties developed documents to inform
educators, administrators and parents on how to observe these
special days and encourage them to do so.
If you have an historical example of EE
(including the original Earth Day celebrations from 1970) please
send a short write up with appropriate links and electronic
documents to
Anne Lewis.
Arbor DayArbor
Day started in 1872 and is still observed in many classrooms as
a time for planting trees. In South Dakota, an
Arbor Day
poster and essay contest are sponsored annually.
Arbor Day Manual An Aid in Preparing Programs for Arbor Day Exercises. Containing Choice Selections on Trees, Forests, Flowers, and Kindred Subjects; Arbor Day Musice, Specimen Programs, Etc edited by Charles Rufus Skinner
(1890)
Other Historic Bird Day References
Arbor Day: Its History and Observance (1896)
Trees and Tree Planting with Exercises and Directions for the
Celebration of Arbor Day (1884)
Bird Day
Bird Day was a popular school observance begun in 1894 by Charles Babcock
who wrote Bird Day: How To Prepare for It. Celebrated on May 5, John James Audubon's
birthday, Bird Day was a reflection of the Progressive Era's
concern for conservation, particularly bird conservation.
The Elementary School Journal By Francis Wayland Parker, Wilbur Samuel Jackman, Bertha Payne, University of Chicago School of Education, Chicago Institute, Academic and Pedagogic, James Hayden Tufts, University of Chicago Press Journals Division, JSTOR (Organization), Francis W. Parker School (Chicago, Ill.)
(1905)
Other Historic Bird Day Resources
Alabama Bird Day Book (1915)
Bird Day: How to Prepare For It (1901)
Bird & Arbor Day Joint Resources
Bird Day was intentionally patterned after Arbor Day and it
wasn't long until the two started to be observed jointly.
By 1899, four states had joint observances (Minnesota, Indiana,
Wisconsin and Massachusetts).
Arbor and Bird Day in the Home (1911)
Wisconsin Arbor and Bird Day Annual (1910)
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