We’ve now completed 3 free K–12 Educators Workshops at 1) the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center in The Dalles, 2) The Reach in Richland, and 3) Shadle Park Library in Spokane . Rick Reynolds, from Engaging Every Student, led over 160 educators through the new Ice Age Floods Detectives phenomena-based curriculum with information and classroom exercises to help students experience the incredible science story of the megafloods that shaped our landscape and history. The workshops were great successes with glowing evaluations from 91 participants, thanks to facility and materials support from the hosting venues and the Ice Age Floods Institute, and with financial support from the Avista Foundation.
Workshop participants were introduced to the Ice Age Floods Detectives and the National Park Service’s Investigating Ice Age Floods curricula through presentations, hands-on activities and field trips, all intended to help educators explore the megafloods with students in grades K–12
Workshops featured
Engaging classroom and field-based activities that included exciting ways to model Floods phenomena and stories of the megafloods that transformed the Northwest 18,000–12,000 years ago at the end of the Last Glacial Period
Up to 7 Washington STEM Clock Hours and/or PDUs for license renewal in Oregon and other states were appreciated, and we’ve distributed IAFI K-12 Education Mini-Grants to attendees to defray the costs for classroom materials and field trips when implementing the curricula. We are also applying for outside grant funding to plan and conduct several more workshops. For questions, comments, or ideas on where we might offer additional training, please contact Rick Reynolds, M.S.Ed., at rick@engagingeverystudent.com.
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