You must complete the following activities to receive an Aquatic WILD guide. Each activity is detailed below, You can also click on the icons alongside the descriptions to go directly to content for each activity.

Once you have finished the activities, complete the exit survey, and email the coordinator to have your work verified and receive payment instructions. To expedite verification, notify the state office before you begin [edinfo@dnr.iowa.gov.]

Required activities

1. View "Real World Learning Experiences for Natural Resource Conservation."

2. Review activity set-up. 

In order to review activities, you need to understand how activities are set up and how they are organized in the guide. 

Required activity: Open the sample Aquatic WILD activity, "Net Gain, Net Effect" and complete the questions. [Note: You can download the activity or print it out if needed.]

3. Try activities. 

Required activity: Select an activity to try from each of the 3 sections  of the guide (3 total) and do the activities. 

Activities are organized by section on the Aquatic WILD: Activities to Try page. Each is an abbreviated version from the guide that you can do using minimal resources.  

1. • Be sure to do the activity and share on the Jamboard (if applicable) for activities you select. 

   • Complete Activity Reflections for the 3 activities. [Link included on the Aquatic WILD Activities to Try page.]

4. Learn about additional resources in the Guide. 

Check out the following:  

1. • Front and back matter in the Guide   

Password protected PDFs of resources from the Guide. [Note: email edinfo@dnr.iowa.gov to get the password; If you are completing the module for credit with AEAonline, password is in the Moodle assignment.] 

Required activity: Swim Through the Aquatic WILD Guide (Link included on the Aquatic WILD Front and Back Matter page.) 

1. • National resources for individual Aquatic WILD activities

   • Correlations of activities to national learning standards

   • Iowa resources to support Aquatic WILD (Scroll down to the "Iowa Supplement to Aquatic WILD.")

5. Select an activity to teach to students. Review the list of activities available online and select one to use in your teaching situation (classroom, camp setting, even a small, informal group). 

Password protected PDFs of resources from the Guide. [Note: email edinfo@dnr.iowa.gov to get the password; If you are completing the module for credit with AEAonline, password is in the Moodle assignment.] 

1. • Required activity: Teach the activity and submit an activity assessment. 

6. Complete the exit survey  (required)

7. Email the state coordinator that you have completed the module. Completion of required activities will be verified and you will get an invoice with instructions for payment. 

8. Submit payment ($25). Once payment is received, a guide will be shipped to you.