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Activities & Resources for Home

Activities & Resources for Home!听

Use this page as a resource for yearly professional development information, 吃瓜头条’s links to useful materials and local-project based learning!听

 

Educational websites to help support your child during school closures


Professional Development

 

Click the links below to refresh your memory!

 

Meeting Links and Dates听

October 29th, 2019-presented by Theodora Pinou, 吃瓜头条

  1. NOAA Bwet 2019 meeting

November 5th, 2019

  1. NOAA PD –made by Melissa Nadeau, Danbury Public Schools

  2. Site Assessment Activity

  3. Watershed Tour Agenda

  4. Watershed Tour

January 28th, 2020- made by Dr. Ed Wong, 吃瓜头条

  1. Danbury Teachers 2020 – Wong Powerpoint

February 25th, 2020- Presentation created by Brian Wood, FirstLight Power Co

This presentation is a great way to blend all the ideas we have discussed thus far.

  1. Finding Our Way past learning success. Read how what you are doing in the classroom supports new knowledge gained by Dr. Pinou鈥檚 research.


Resources for integrating local project-based learning

 

 

Hass Library-Archives Material:

    1. The Harpers Weekly article from 1869 that describes the devastating flood that occurred when the Kohanza Dam broke:听
    2. Water issues in general:听
    3. History of hatting from the early 1900s:听
    4. Bailey’s history of Danbury:听
    5. Ecological ramifications to the Hat industry:听

 

Definition of a NOAA Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience (MWEE)

 

Classroom Teacher MWEE Guide and Checklist

 

Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience (MWEE)听Resources:

On-line resources to support stewardship and watershed science

  1. NOAA Videos:听

  2. National Marine Sanctuary Resources:听

  3. National Weather Service:听

  4. US Fish and Wildlife Watershed Restoration:听

  5. NOAA Fisheries, New England/MidAtlantic:听

 

“Establishing pollinator-friendly habitats and food sources for bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and other pollinating insects and wildlife”