“Waters That Connect Us”
June 28th, 29th, 30th, 2021
Day 1: Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge
ANeMoNe Presentation – Cinde Donoghue, Aquatic Resource Scientist at Washington Department of Natural Resources
Wetland Walk
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
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
- Stream Bugs and Benthic Macroinvertebrates
Day 3: Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, Glacial Heritage Preserve, & Violet Prairie Native Seed Farm
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)
Violet Prairie Native Seed Farm Stations
- Seed farm tour, Ruth Mares, Center for Natural Lands Management
- Prairies, Aquifers, and Groundwater model Kevin Hansen, Thurston County Hydrogeologist
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