UVM Watershed Alliance Winter Newsletter 2018

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Watershed Alliance
Winter 2018 Newsletter

Fall Season  Highlights
  • Over 300 students joined us at the Rubenstein Ecosystem Sciences Laboratory and aboard the Melosira
  • We partnered with middle school science teachers at Camels Hump Middle school and worked with over 200 students 
  • Many schools partnered with“Trout in the Classroom”program for their stewardship project. They spent the fall monitoring their release site and will release the trout in the spring.
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Full article in UVM Extension Quarterly: click here
UVM Extension Across the Fence Video Click Here
See Watershed Alliance featured in the Youth Environmental Summit video produced by UVM Extension Across the Fence
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UPCOMING EVENTS & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES
CBEI: Digital Storytelling and Place-Based Learning Workshop

Thursday, February 8, 2018
St. Albans Museum
St Albans, VT
8:30AM – 3:00PM
RSVP to Stephanie Larkinslarkin@lcbp.org
More information:watershedmatters.lcbp.org/pd_cbei.html

$20 registration includes lunch

World Water Day! 
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
St. Albans Museum
St Albans, VT
Time 4PM – 6:30PM

Stay Tuned For Details about the World Water Day Stewardship Project Contest! 
Check: http://watershedmatters.lcbp.org/conteset.html

Watershed for Every Classroom is a project of the Champlain Basin Education Initiative. (CBEI). The partners include the Lake Champlain Committee, Shelburne Farms, the Lake Champlain Basin Program, UVM Watershed Alliance/Sea Grant, Our Curriculum Matters, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Community Sailing Center, ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain and others working to promote environmental and place-based education throughout the Lake Champlain watershed. Click for more info

DATES: July 16-20, 2018October 12-13, 2018* January 2019 TBD March 2019 TBD

May 3-4, 2019**includes an overnight stay

FEE: $500 (includes housing & meals for single overnights in July, October & May).
5 graduate credits available at additional cost.

CONTACT: Kerri McAllister 802.985.0343 kmcallister@shelburnefarms.org

NOAA Planet Stewards January Webinar & Book Club Events – Register Today! 

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Register for the first NOAA Planet Stewards Webinar of 2018!

Join us Monday, January 8, 7:30 pm Eastern Time for:

CLEAN: Climate and Energy Resources Supporting Three Dimensional Learning

Space is Limited! Reserve Your Seat: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4543799259810144513

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with additional information.

Anne Gold and Jennifer Taylor

NOAA Planet Stewards is pleased to welcome Dr. Anne Gold and Ms. Jennifer Taylor from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) Education and Outreach Group at the University of Colorado Boulder as our featured speakers.

CLEAN – the Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network is dedicated to increasing climate and energy literacy. A national community of professional scientists and educators, CLEAN is committed to supporting three dimensional learning in classrooms through a curated a collection of climate and energy education resources. Dr. Gold and Ms. Taylor will provide an overview of the CLEAN portal and its collection of almost 700 resources including activities, videos, visualizations, short demonstrations and experiments that have been reviewed for scientific accuracy, pedagogical effectiveness, and technical quality. They will also demonstrate the use of the new downloadable CLEAN Get Started Guide, whose step by step process is organized around a three-dimensional learning model, designed to help you create your own climate and energy units using the CLEAN resource collection.

Important Information for participating in this Webinar (Seriously, read this and save it for your reference):

  1. Log into the webinar AT LEAST 5 minutes before the scheduled start time. GoToWebinar continually upgrades their software. We want to be sure you can access the broadcast when it begins
  2. Plan to use the VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) option to listen to this presentation. All participants will be muted for the duration of the broadcast.
  3.  If you have difficulty listening to the webinar using VOIP, you may dial 1-415-930-5321 for audio. The access code is: 233-825-293. You will be charged for this call. No Audio Pin is needed to listen to the webinar
  4. If you have difficulty logging in to the webinar go to: https://support.logmeininc.com/gotowebinar/contactus?p=0 The ID Number for this Webinar is: 533-246-195

Sign up to our email list to receive information on upcoming webinars, book/discussion club meetings, professional development workshops and opportunities.

Join our next Book Club Event!

On Monday, January 29, 7:30 pm Eastern Time

we’ll be discussing:

Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction

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