Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge
June 24, 25, 26, 2019
“Climate Change and Endangered Species”
Day 1: Endangered Species Overview
- Water Quality, Climate Change, Behavior Change
Killer Whales and Climate Change- Cindy Hansen, Whale’s Tail Orca Network’s Education and Outreach Coordinator
- Be Whale Wise, including guidelines for boaters, paddlers and viewers
- NOAA video (Link TBA)
Endangered, Threatened or At Risk? – Rachel Stendahl
- With context of local marine mammals!
- NOAA’s Marine Mammals Handout
- Wildlife-inspired exercise game (Run like an Elk, hop like a Grasshopper, dip like a Dipper, etc!)
Break out Sessions Rotations:
Endangered Species Jeopardy & Endangered Species Board Game – Rachel Stendahl
Be A Scientist – Stephanie Bishop
Animals at Risk of Climate Change -The Global Education Project – Sheila Wilson
- Presentation
- Endangered species by county interactive map
- The Nisqually Watershed is home to 13 plant and 18 animal species listed on state or federal endangered/threatened lists. You can see a few examples on our Facebook page: Nisqually River Council Facebook
Billy B – Tips and tricks for educators as entertainers and keeping things hopeful
Orca Jenga and Lego Ocean Acidification – Chrissy Webb
Framing Climate Change for Younger Audiences – Candyce Lund Bollinger, parent educator/private parenting counselor
Day 2: Field Trip Day!
Seagrasses of Puget Sound: Ecology, Monitoring & Restoration– Jeff Gaeckle, Washington Department of Natural Resources, Aquatic Resources Division
Field trip stations:
Nisqually Reach Nature Center
- Dungeness Crab, Puget Sound Ocean Acidification and Light Traps – Margaret Homerding, Nisqually Indian Tribe, Shellfish Biologist & Katie Houle, Pacific Shellfish Institute
- Tour of National Fish and Oyster Company (Facebook page) – Sheila Wilson
- Seaweed Pressing – Stephanie Bishop
- Plankton Survey – Aimee Christy, Pacific Shellfish Institute
Amphibians and Climate Change– Marc Hayes, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
Day 3: Curriculum Resources, Presentations, and Planning Time
Effects of Climate Change on Birds – Kim Dolgin, Black Hills Audubon
- Presentation (Link TBA)
- Classroom Ideas for Birds and Climate
Shark and Rockfish of Puget Sound– Lisa Hillier, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
NOAA’s Dungeness Crab Tool Kit– Nicole Harris, Education Specialist, National Marine Sanctuary Foundation; Kelsey Donahue & Barbara Bennett, Scientist V, Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Seasonal Rounds of the People of Cascadia, Heidi Bohan, author
Stations:
- Making Cattail Mats- Heidi Bohan
- Team Building and Emotional Intelligence: GRuB Activities- Chrissy Webb
- Shark Anatomy & Shark School of Art (3-5th Grades)- Stephanie Bishop
- Monterey Bay Aquarium Shark Anatomy Lesson
- Monterey Bay Aquarium “Shark School of Art”
- iCivics and Washington’s Water Rights (MS)- Emily McCartan, Nisqually River Foundation
- Washington’s Water – iCivics (requires a [free] login)
- Emily’s iCivics lessons
- NOAA Alaska’s Sustainable Seafood Curriculum (HS) – Sheila Wilson
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- Pangolin and Vaquita- (4th-6th grades), Christine Rayburn
- Pangolins: The Most Illegally Trafficked Mammal You’ve Never Heard Of (video)- National Geographic
- Save The Vaquita: Tracking the World’s Most Endangered Marine Mammal (video)- CBS This Morning
- Sea of Shadows Official Trailer (video)- National Geographic
- Interactive prints that protect
- Endangered species coloring book by Last Chance Earth
- Endangered Species Superheroes Graphic Novel, by Dakota Duncan
Environmental Education Buffet … Choice Time!
- Introduction to the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge– Grace DeMeo
- Introduction to Nisqually Reach Nature Center– April Roe
- Meet Your Watershed Program: Chehalis Basin Education Consortium, Nisqually River Education Project, South Sound GREEN
- Using NOAA’s MWEE Model for Program Assessment – Sheila Wilson