XWTR 505.CP.IP - Confluence Project I
Course Description
The Confluence Project (TCP) is a comprehensive investigative watershed science program for high school teachers and students. Maintaining water quality is necessary for drinking supply, recreation, and fisheries. TCP includes water quality monitoring, snow science investigations, service-learning and other place-based experiential education for the students. High school faculty members are provided with robust training, educational materials, water and snow test kits, and professional in-class and field trip support by watershed experts. Throughout the US, successful monitoring programs are coupled with robust educational programs. Idaho’s K-12 teachers are increasingly tasked to integrate STEM education into their classroom curriculum, but they often have little or no formal science training. Educational programming like TCP, helps to meet substantial gaps in statewide environmental education and STEM outreach.
TCP was launched in fall 2010 and currently has provided impactful watershed science education for 400+ high school students each year, and a rapidly increasing cadre of grades 9-12 teachers. Participants in the program learn the science behind water quality, quantity, and watershed processes, and then bring their students to a stream to learn how to conduct water quality monitoring, and to Lookout Pass to study the water in the snowpack, and compare with that from a local Sno-Tel site.
TCP website can be found here: https://www.uidaho.edu/research/entities/iwrri/education/confluence
Additional information can be found here: https://www.uidaho.edu/extension/news/story/extension-partners-confluence-project
Course consists of classroom instruction, pre-readings and assignments. See website or contact the instructor for more information and registration.
Course Offered at In-Service Rate
Course Web Page: https://www.uidaho.edu/research/entities/iwrri/education/confluence
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