Meeting Pattern

Meet July 13 - 17, 2026 (times vary)

See agenda: Red River Watershed Institute 2026 Agenda

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Description

Join us for an opportunity to experience current watershed management and water resource issues along the Red River. While exploring the issues and identifying solutions, participants will receive real world, user friendly and classroom ready instruction from tenured Project WET Trainers, resource professionals, and scientists. Participants transfer the institute's field studies to practical classroom applications. Participants will experience hands-on, minds-on learning through a balance of presentations, discussions, activities, field tours, and environmental investigations.

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 Red River River watershed issues and concerns.
• Understand the economic, science and social issues of Today's North Dakota’s Red River watershed.
• Understand why the Red River watershed is important to the overall state's social and economic well-being.
• Use informational and educational materials and resources on North Dakota's Red River watershed to supplement institute curriculum (textbooks) in classroom learning situations.
• Use critical thinking and information processing skills in developing a journal and study unit of personal North Dakota's Red River watershed perspectives and classroom incorporation ideas through institute experiences and explorations.

Required Materials:

All required materials are furnished by the Instructor 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 Red 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.