Naturemapping
in Waterville
School
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Community
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Support/ materials
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4-6th grades
1992
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BLM
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® Use of their land
® Expert training for teachers and kids in all areas of
science
® Painted the mural in our hallway
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South Douglas Conservation District
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® Money for water testing kits
® Opportunities to present
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Dept. of Fish and Wildlife
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® Grant for water testing kits
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Naturemapping 4th-6th
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Local birders
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® Collected data, we sent it in via e-mail
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Adopt-a-farmer project in 4th grade, 2nd
grade and after-school program
1997
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Karen, Dan from UW naturemapping
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® On-going on-site support
® PATIENCE
® Arcview training/assistance for students and teachers
® Data collection protocol including designing data collection
forms with students
® Data analysis help
® Protocol for ethogram (2nd grade), food
preference study (2nd grade), and over-wintering study
® Lots of presentation opportunities
® 15 presentations including about 50 students participating
® Managing our work on the Naturemapping website
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ESRI
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® Arcview software
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® Gift of plotter/printer with ink supply
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30 wheat farmers
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® Collected our horny toad data for us, brought it in and
helped us graph and map it on
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2004
4th grade stars in a video about the project
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George Lucas Educational foundation
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® Video can be found on the GLEF website and is called Leapin’
Lizards
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2005
Project wins Golden Apple Award
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$500 for use by the project
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4th grade students produce books of farm fields
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Karen, Dan
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® Working with Arcview to produce maps of particular farmers
fields
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Mark Thomsen
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® Our patient farmer who worked with us design his book and
iron out the details for future books.
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4 farmers
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® Students will work on these 4 books and maps during the
summer and get paid to do it
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Tree Project
2005
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City of Waterville, a tree city USA
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® Two students took data from city employee and made an
Arcview map of all trees on city property, with accompanying table
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4th grade tracking horny toads themselves
2005
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Karen, Dan, CWU student,
Holohil manufacturing for transmitters
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Transmitters, receivers,
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Elementary retreat at Rainbow Lodge
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Dept. of Fish and Wildlife
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Organized science GLEs by grade level
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High school ag class
2006
Adding trees on private property to the tree map.
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Survey of all box-holders in town
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City Green add-on to Arcview, trial copy from American
Forests
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3rd grade class
Bioblitz
2006/07
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CWU professor and biology class
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Students collected on playground, preserved them, identified
by family and then sent them to CWU for further identification
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Bioblitz at
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Comparison of insects from two ecosystems
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3rd grade field guide pages about insects
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Karen
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Editing for perfection for website while keeping the kids’
words and pictures
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3rd grade blog
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Parent access
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2nd grade bird study
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Karen
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Bird models, lists of predicted species
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2007
School receives a
K-6 !!!!
Includes field guide production, walking tour (water
conservation, wildlife attraction), artistic renditions of animals,
1 year plan
5 year plan
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Karen, Dan,
Diane D (GLEF)
Supt and principal encouraged all teachers to get training
and they began to buy in
Pacific Education Institute provides science and WASL
training
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Mentors
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High school and middle school students who have been a part
of the Horny Toad project will get technology credit for helping an
elementary class one period a day with the data collection, Arcview mapping,
photography and other technology needs
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Master gardener
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Weather Station
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South Douglas Conservation District
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Purchase of $2500 weather station so we can use weather data
with our animal sighting data to answer correlative questions.
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2006-07
After school/weekends work
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Dept. of Fish and Wildlife
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Buy Diane’s time to work on these extra projects
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