WILD About STEM in Wetlands

Build your students' STEM skills by making the outdoors your classroom

Join us at the ND Game and Fish "Outdoor Wildlife Learning Site" in Bismarck for an opportunity to experience current wildlife, land, water and forest management issues in North Dakota. While exploring the issues and identifying solutions, participants will receive real world, user-friendly and classroom ready instruction from specially trained facilitators and natural resource professionals. Participants will receive three top environmental education curriculum guides for their classrooms so they be able 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.

Three educators look at a forestry tool that measures forest canopy cover in a forest

Objectives

1. Train educators in wildlife, land, water and forest conservation.

2. Provide teachers with resources, lessons and classroom ready activities related to land, water and forest resources.

3. Build capacity for educators to transfer the institute's field investigation to practical classroom applications. These field investigations are evidence-based studies that bring the scientific process out of the laboratory and into the natural world.

A woman in waders, a baseball cap, and sunglasses smiles while holding a net and stands in a river lined with cattails