Meeting Pattern

See topical outline below

Topical_Outline_Missouri_Rvr_Watershed_Inst_24.pdf

Description

The North Dakota Department of Water Resources, through its Project WET Explore Your Watershed Program, will conduct a 64 hour four professional development credit (credit pending) Project WET Explore Your Watershed course for up to 30 K-12 formal and non-formal educators. The 2024 course is scheduled for July 15-19 at Bismarck State College. The course title will be "Discover Today's Missouri River Watershed Institute 2024." 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. 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 environmental investigations will cover the following topics: conducting a macro-invertebrate assessment and bio assessment; conducting a chemical assessment; conducting a wetland assessments; conducting a stream flow and stream life assessment.

Syllabus, Objectives, and Outcomes

Objectives:

Educators should know, understand or be able to attain the Learning Objectives:

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

Required Materials:

All required materials are furnished by the Instructor of Record as part of the fee paid by all students. 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.