What is water monitoring and protection all about?
What is your relationship with water in your watershed?
What is the best way for you to be a water educator?
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8:30-9:00AM
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11:50AM
Coffee Chat
Welcome and Introductions: Alex Breslav
Reflection on Native Education: Jared Blanche
Review Action Planning Toolkit
Red Cliff Treaty Natural Resources: Water Restoration and Monitoring
Water Quality Monitoring and Restoration: Allison Rakowski
Sovereignty, Policy, and Red Cliff TNR: Linda Nguyen
Environmental Justice: Noah Saperstein
Break
Waters in our Communities: Watershed education
Wrap-up and introduce afternoon activities
Return to your spot from yesterday!
This is an outdoor activity that you'll do daily. You don't need to upload your observations, but please use them to inform your final reflective writing.
Complete and POST by start of class on Thursday, July 1
What do I need to do to grow my relationship with Water? What can I do to help inspire others to do the same?
Complete and UPLOAD by start of class on Thursday, July 1
This is an outdoor activity, where you will follow the flow of water from where you live to a nearby body of water (or outlet). Compile 3-5 photos and describe your findings in a Google Doc, PowerPoint, etc. for uploading on Google Classroom.
The Action Plan is a final assignment (due Friday, July 9). Use this Action Planning Toolkit throughout the week as you consider how you will carry what you learn into your teaching and personal commitments.
FOR VIEWING BEFORE THURSDAY'S CLASS:
Lac du Flambeau History (27 mins)
Water Protection
Act 31
Leary, J. P. (2018). The story of Act 31: How Native history came to Wisconsin classrooms. Wisconsin Historical Society Press.
Session Resources
Earth Partnership Activities/Teaching Materials