Education
The Cottonwood Creek Watershed Program is proud to offer public,
private and home school students in grades kindergarten through
eighth a very progressive science based educational program.
Our program, entitled "Kids for Our Creek" gets students,
teachers, and parents directly involved in the learning process.
The program has an indoor, direct instruction facet and an indoor/outdoor,
hands on facet.
For the indoor, direct instruction portion of our program,
we will use a variety of nationally recognized curricula, such
as Project Wild Aquatic, Project Learning Tree, and National
Wildlife Federation's Access Nature. In addition, we will use
curriculum of our own design, to touch on local watershed issues.
This will ensure that students receive a pertinent and well
rounded science based curriculum, as well as a deeper understanding
of the ecological issues that affect their watershed. All lessons
and units taught will be carefully aligned with the California
State Science Standards, with many lessons being made applicable
to Math, History/Social Science, and English Language Arts as
well.
For the outdoor, hands on portion of our program we will give
students, teachers and parents a variety of opportunities to
directly apply the information they receive in the classroom
to real world situations in the field. Various educational outings
will be planned to sites throughout the watershed. These outings
will allow students to apply the curriculum to real world situations
in the field, showing them the application of their new knowledge.
We will also plan and implement conservation and restoration
projects throughout the watershed. Students, teachers, and parents
will be directly involved in every aspect of the watershed conservation
and restoration projects, from deciding which projects to undertake,
to the gathering data, to the implementation of the conservation
and restoration work. These conservation and restoration projects
will conform to appropriate service learning standards. Throughout
the process parents and teacher will be invited and encouraged
to participate.
The Cottonwood Creek Watershed Group also currently provides
adult education outreach through monthly stakeholder meetings
at the Cottonwood Community Center (20595 Gas Point Road
behind Holiday Market) all meetings are held at 6:15 PM.
We also provide a quarterly newsletter to all residents in the
watershed and other interested parties. The newsletter contains
information on activities of CCWG, as well as on issues potentially
affecting land management and other items of potential interest
to landowners.
CCWG Stakeholder Meeting Dates for 2008 (Based on the current
schedule)
Wednesday, January 23, 2008.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008.
Wednesady, August 27, 2008.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008.
November Meeting's aren't held due to Holidays.
December Meeting's aren't held due to Holidays.
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