Meeting Pattern

See topical outline below

Devils_Lake_Watershed_Institute_2025_Topical_Outline.pdf

Description

Participate in environmental investigations that cover the following topics: conducting a macro-invertebrate assessment and bio assessment; conducting a chemical assessment; a wetland assessments; a stream flow and stream life assessment. 

Eighteen individuals and tour guides representing many local, state and federal agencies, organizations and industries will present the following watershed issues:

• Flood control and protection;
• Sport fisheries/enforcement, best management practices;
• Riparian restoration;
• Endangered/threatened species;
• Water and wastewater treatment;
• Watershed health, issues and concerns;
• Habitat restoration;
• Water use, supply and distribution;
• Industrial water management;
• Riparian land use and point source/nonpoint source pollution issues;
• Environmental water quality assessments;
• Sovereign land management;
• Private land/water management issues and energy development. 

The North Dakota Department of Water Resources, through its Project WET Explore Your Watershed Program, will conduct a 64 hour four professional development credit Project WET Explore Your Watershed course for up to 30 K-12 formal and non-formal educators. The 2025 course is scheduled for July 14-18 at Lake Region State College. The course title will be "Devils Lake Watershed Institute 2025." The course instructor is Tina Harding, Water Resource Education Manager, ND Project WET Explore Your Watershed, ND Department of Water Resources, 1200 Memorial Highway, Department 770, Bismarck, ND 58504, (701) 328-4833, Fax (701) 328-3696, E-mail - tinamharding@nd.gov.  

Mrs. Harding will provide instruction and oversight instruction during the entire course. Supplemental instructors will be used as the course outline indicates including number of contributing hours. These facilitators will help teach course agenda items and help students transfer course learning to the classroom situation and provide analysis and interpretation. Mrs. Harding will oversee all supplemental instructors and minor presenters to ensure adherence to course mission, purpose and learning objectives. 

Syllabus, Objectives, and Outcomes

Objectives:

You will:

• Understand and be able to use, incorporate, and teach institute curriculum materials in a variety of learning situations through a variety of methods.
• Have increased knowledge, skills, motivation, and commitment to teach about contemporary North Dakota Devils Lake watershed issues and concerns.
• Understand the economic, science and social issues of Today's North Dakota’s Devils Lake watershed.
• Understand why the Devils Lake watershed is important to the overall state's social and economic well-being.
• Use informational and educational materials and resources on North Dakota's Devils Lake watershed to supplement institute curriculum guides in classroom learning situations.
• Use critical thinking and information processing skills in developing a journal and study unit of personal North Dakota's Devils Lake watershed perspectives and classroom incorporation ideas through institute experiences and explorations.

Materials:

Required Materials

All required materials are furnished by the instructor as part of your fee paid for the course. Three Project WET educator curriculum guides will be the primary textbooks (Project WET Curriculum and Activity Guide, Healthy Water, Healthy People Educator Guide and Field Monitoring Manual and the Discover a Watershed: The Missouri River Guide. A site-specific supplemental water quality field investigations activity booklet will be used during the environmental investigations The author of the Project WET educator curriculum guides is the Project WET International Foundation, an award winning 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the mission of reaching children, parents, educators and community members with water education. The latest editions of the curriculum guides will be used.