Summer Institute for Teachers 2021

June 28, 29, 30 2021

“Waters That Connect Us”

Teacher participants will:

• Learn regional climate change science and impacts 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: Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge 

Day 1 Teacher Journal

ANeMoNe – Cinde Donoghue, Aquatic Resource Scientist at Washington Department of Natural Resources

• ANeMoNe (Acidification Nearshore Monitoring Network) website and links

Wetland Walk 

• Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge “For Educators” page

Beach STEM Activities/Resources 

• Weather Station 
  • Engineering Activity: Build an Anemometer 
  • Engineering Activity: Build a Rain Gauge
  • Beaufort Scale sheet
  • Cloud chart
• Beach Monitoring with ANEMONE – Cinde Donoghue, DNR
• Beach Seine –  April Roe, Nisqually Reach Nature Center
• Plant Teachings for Growing Social Emotional Skills with Plant Teaching Cards – Sable Bruce, GRuB

Day 2:  Nisqually Indian Tribe Community Garden

Day 2 Teacher Journal

Cultural World of Salmon – Nisqually Indian Tribal members

• Stories of villages in the Delta, Medicine Creek Treaty, Restoration of Estuary
• Sit Spot and Sound Map
• Plant Medicine/Service learning in the garden 
• Salmon Smell Your Way Home
  • This game is still a work in progress! It is a heavily modified/shortened version of the “Smell Your Way Home” Lesson from NOAA’s “An Incredible Journey” curriculum. I appreciate your willingness to be my test subjects! – Julia
  • Salmon Smell Your Way Home Game Outline DRAFT
• Salmon Dissection 
  • Salmon Dissection video
  • Salmon Dissection Interactive Notebook
  • Salmon Dissection Guide
• Stream Bugs and Benthic Macroinvertebrates  
  • Printable dichotomous key
  • Interactive online dichotomous key
  • Biotic Index calculator handout

Day 3: Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, Glacial Heritage Preserve, & Violet Prairie Native Seed Farm

Day 3 Teacher Journal

Sustainability in Prisons Project and Prairies – Carolina Landes-R.S.

Glacial Heritage Preserve

• Scotch Broom Restoration & Camas- Shawna Zierdt (Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians), Angela Winter (Center for Natural Lands Management), and volunteers
• Prairie Soil Analysis, Katrinka Hibler & Marguerite Abplanalp (Thurston Conservation District)
  • Prairie Soil Activity Sheet

Violet Prairie Native Seed Farm Stations 

• Seed farm tour, Ruth Mares, CNLM 
• Prairies, Aquifers, and Groundwater model Kevin Hansen, Thurston County Hydrogeologist  

Additional Resources:

• iNaturalist
• Burke Museum Herbarium Image Collection
• Angela’s contact info for prairie tours
• Institute for Bird Population MAPS Program
• South Sound Prairies website
• Prairie Appreciation Day