Summer Institute for Teachers 2018
Climate Change in the Pacific NW:
Urban Environments, Flooding, and Sea Level Rise
Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge
June 25, 26, 27, 2018
Teacher participants will:
- Learn regional climate change science from local and NOAA experts
- Experience hands on activities and field investigations
- Receive curriculum resources to support service learning projects
- Gain skills and experience to implement climate change curriculum and Action Projects for Community Resiliency in your classroom
- Contribute to program development and enhancement
Day 1 Sea Level Rise and Flooding
Welcome to the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge Education Coordinator, Davy Clark
Sea Level Rise – an Overview of the Science: Nicole Faghin, Coastal Management Specialist, Washington Sea Grant
- Presentation Notes
- Another resource recommended by Nicole! Bridge: An Ocean of Teacher Approved Marine Education Resources
Sea Level Rise Expert Panel, moderated by Chuck Lennox, Lennox Insites
- Eric Christensen, Stormwater Engineer, City of Olympia – Presentation
- Brenda Snyder, Landscape Architect / Urban Designer, Barghausen Consulting Engineers – Presentation
- Nicole Faghin, Coastal Management Specialist, Washington Sea Grant – Presentation
- Rhys Roth, Director, Center for Sustainable Infrastructure – Presentation
Teachers Response: How will you take this information into your classroom?
- Future Cities Competition
- Sea Level Rise Design Challenge
- Project Citizen
- Build a Flood-able Model City
- Use geological maps to see city sea level rise
- Use Lucia’s Estuary Restoration Puzzle pre/post trip
Nisqually Boardwalk & Estuary
- Estuary Restoration, Sea Level Rise and Other Future Challenges– – Chris Ellings (30 min talk at end of boardwalk about restoration project)
Break out Sessions
- Nisqually Estuary Restoration Puzzle – Lucia Harrison, visual artist and Faculty Emeriti at The Evergreen State College
- NOAA Thermal Expansion Lab – Stephanie Bishop, South Sound GREEN
- “Game of Floods” (high school & up) – Sheila Wilson, NREP & Brandon Bywater, AmeriCorps
- Hands on Watershed Modeling to Understand Stormwater Pollution Part 1 & Part 2 – Darcy Bird, City of Lacey AmeriCorps Volunteer
- NOAA Beat the Uncertainty Game (Upper Elementary – Middle School) – Rachel Stendahl, Chehalis Basin Education Consortium
Day 2: Field Trips- Tour of the Deschutes Watershed
Geology of Puget Sound/Deschutes Watershed- Wendy Gerstel, Qwg Applied Geology
Deschutes Falls Park
- Project WET: Seeing Watersheds
- Water Quality Monitoring Student Booklet
- Canopy App -Analyze the forest’s canopy with ease using technology you use every day — your phone! If you’re looking for a densiometer or canopy analysis tool, this is a fantastic app for you!
Yelm Hwy Stormwater Facility at William A. Bush Park
- Wetland Metaphors, Project WET – Stephanie Bishop
- Capitol Lake at the Dam and Steh-Chass Festival– Sue Patnude, DERT (Deschutes Estuary Restoration Team)
Downtown Olympia Sea Level Rise and Walking Tour – Eric Christensen & Susan Clark, City of Olympia.. Meet at Capitol Lake, Water Street Bathrooms.
Optional: Kayak Tour of Olympia to Priest Point Park
- Sam Kaviar, Kayak Nisqually
- Mike Baker, Olympia Parks and Recreation
Day 3 Curriculum Resources, Action Projects, and Planning Time
Tideline Project: Art as Action – Stephanie Bishop, Matt Samson, Aerial Wahoub
Data in the Classroom – Maggie Allen, Education Specialist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association
Coordinated Litter Assessment Project– Heather Trim, Zero Waste Washington and Stop Sucking! Strawless Olympia Campaign, Christine Rayburn
Break
Action Project Break Out Sessions- Two 45 minute Sessions
- Fecal Coliform Testing and Water Quality – Stephanie Bishop, South Sound GREEN
- Benthic Macroinvertebrates – Davy Clark, Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge
- Do One Thing Videos – Sheila Wilson, Nisqually River Education Project
- Oyster Dissection and Micro-plastic Monitoring Labs and Presentation– Aeriel Wahoub, South Sound GREEN AmeriCorps
Tribal Curriculum Resources
- “Traditional Food Box” – Elizabeth Campbell, Squaxin Garden. There is an entire binder full of resources, recipes and stories included with the tool-kit. Many of the stories can be downloaded on your smart phone as well. The Cedar Box Teaching Tool-kit is currently housed at the Squaxin Island Museum’s Tribal Garden. If local educators are interested they can contact:
- ecampbell@squaxin.us
- acposte@squaxin.us
- www.wildfoodsandmedicines.com (Elise Crohn’s website)
- Billy Frank Jr. Salmon Defense Video
- Native Knowledge 360
- The Pacific NW Fish Wars: What Kinds of Actions Can lead to Justice? This online lesson provides perspectives from Native American community members and their supporters, images, news footage, an interactive timeline, and other sources about an important campaign to secure the treaty rights and sovereignty of Native Nations of the Pacific NW.
- Salmon Challenges: The Return Upstream- Play and learn what it’s like to be a salmon!
Climate Resiliency Fellows: Share-Out and Sign-Up
- Green Team Waste Audit – Becky Hendrickson, Shining Mountain Elementary
- Invasive Species Removal on Campus– Dave Ohrt, Nisqually Middle School
- Water Quality Monitoring and Stream Clean-up- Tove Reibel, Wishkah Elementary
Program Assessment or Meet your Watershed Program: Chehalis Basin Education Consortium, Nisqually River Education Project, South Sound GREEN
- Review 2018-19 Program Calendars
- Nisqually River Education Project & South Sound GREEN
- Chehalis Basin Education Consortium
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