Albuquerque: Bosque Education Guide: Workshops for Teache

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The Bosque Education Guide : Workshops

Upcoming Bosque Education Guide Workshops
Friday, January 4, 2008
Friday, March 28, 2008

Monday, June 30, 2008



Location: The Rio Grande Nature Center State Park 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. You must pre-register at: (505) 344-7240, or email: Karen.Herzenberg@state.nm.us

The Bosque Education Guide is a major revision of the popular curriculum to teach about the Middle Rio Grande Valley ecosystem. The new edition is 621 pages and has activities for elementary through high school. The main activity has students set up a paper and cloth model of the river valley, placing plants and animals in the appropriate environments to show the bosque ecosystem as it was before major human alteration, then changing the pieces around to show how humans have changed things in the last century. Finally, students conduct restoration projects on the model to see how land managers can maintain as much of the biodiversity and natural processes of the ecosystem with out compromising the safety of our communities. The Guide has many activities to be done with students on field trips as well as in the classroom or schoolyard. Topics include, the geology of the valley, surface and groundwater, the demands on the river's water budget, natural history information and human influence, several mapping activities and two web quests. The final chapter helps teachers plan service-learning projects with their students. A substantial background section and appendices including correlations to the New Mexico education standards round out the book.

Participants will receive the curriculum and additional teaching kit materials. These workshops are offered to educators through funding from the PNM Resources Foundation. Co-sponsored by the NM Museum of Natural History & Science and the Rio Grande Nature Center State Park with long-term support from the US Fish and Wildlife Service's Bosque Initiative Group.

Plan to be both inside and outside for the workshop, so dress in comfortable clothes for the weather that day. Bring sack lunch, hat, water and sunscreen.

Cost is $3 for parking at the Rio Grande Nature Center.