Newsletter
October 2002
Vol. 2 No. 3
Feature:
BTW Curriculum is Finished. A-men!!
Bridging the Watershed (BTW) has just turned four, and it has taken four
years to complete the curriculum, the linchpin of the BTW educational
program.... (more)
Partners
in the News: A Farewell to Ranger Jay Johnstone
Whoa, what a year! A baby boy opened the 2002 season, knee surgery put
me on the bench for spring, and now I have a new job at the Ohmahgolly
Gulch. It will take me a while to recuperate from the past 12 months,
but it has certainly been worth the effort...(more)
Ranger
Ramblings: Come on in; the Water's Fine!
What would it take to get you excited about a curriculum-based education
program? How about a series of science modules that the kids like, well-prepared
lesson plans, a setting in which students learn more, free continuing education
for the teachers and rangers...(more)
Events
and Workshops
In each of the workshops, participants will complete all activities in the student
booklet and learn how to conduct field studies in the national parks. Teachers
may apply for more than one workshop if they intend to bring students to
national parks to complete field studies...(more)
From
the Classroom: Karen Sondak, Teacher, Northwest
High School
I'm what you would call a veteran teacher. This year I started my fourteenth
year teaching. I've taught in California, Arizona, and now in Maryland,
including four school districts and five schools. I've taken just about
every workshop, training, and in-service that I could squeeze into my free-time-deprived
schedule. But when the opportunity to take the Bridging the Watershed (BTW)
Summer Institute was offered to me, I jumped....(more)
A
Closer Look...West Nile Virus in Rock Creek National
Park
West Nile Virus is a mosquito-borne virus first discovered in Africa in 1937.
We don't know how the virus arrived in the United States, first detected in
the New York City area in 1999. Since then, the virus has spread into the
northeast, the Midwest, and the southeast...(more)
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