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Community Engaged Science and Education – K-12 Educators
Community Engaged Science and Education
We foster lifelong connections between people and nature, strengthening communities’ capacity to care for the natural world through place-based and outdoor educational programs, volunteer service, and community science.
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Explore the different ways we support community engaged science and education throughout the state
Support for K-12 Educators
We provide field-based and on-water workshops, curriculum, and mentorship for educators to learn how to integrate place-based environmental science into their classrooms and teaching spaces. Explore our work and programs.
Rivers2Lake Program
Rivers2Lake uses the Lake Superior watershed and the St. Louis River estuary as a foundation for educator and student learning, increased Great Lakes literacy, and engagement. The program is a part of the Lake Superior Reserve and provides extended training, mentoring, and resources to teachers in order to support them in creating interdisciplinary inquiry-based and outdoor experiences for students.
Groundwater Model Teacher Workshops
The majority of Wisconsin residents get their drinking water from groundwater. Groundwater Model Workshops provide hands-on training for teachers interested in learning how to use a sand-tank groundwater model to help students visualize the movement of groundwater and pollutants below their feet.
UW-Green Bay Freshwater Educator Network
The Freshwater Educator Network brings immersive field experiences to life for K-12 educators in the 16-county region connected to the Bay of Green Bay. This program gets students and teachers out on the water and into the landscape, making learning exciting and impactful.
Featured Resources
Streams are dynamic places to study! Middle and high school students will learn about at least six aspects of stream health when teachers guide them through this stream monitoring curriculum and teaching resources.
Learn to sculpt Wisconsin aquifers using modelling clay with this lesson plan developed by the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey. This activity helps students envision Wisconsin’s aquifers in three dimensions while learning about geologic concepts.