Wonderful Wildflowers

New Plant Restoration Activity Now Available

The "Wonderful Wildflowers" activity will give your students the chance to help restore California native plants to our local landscape. With this activity your students will learn why native plants are important and then have the chance to plant some of their own! After folding and decorating their own seed envelopes, students will place a few spoonfulls of soil mixture into their envelope then add a pinch of local wildflower seed to take home and plant.

This activity comes with background information and instructions for teachers, an envelope-making sheet to photocopy for each student, and a small bag of wildflower seed. We can provide a bag soil mix (pictured) or you can use your own (you will need about 3-4 cups total).

Late winter and early spring are the best times to sow wildflower seed. Please let us know if you would like this activity for your classroom!

River of Words Workshop

River of Words Workshop- Retreat


This workshop is designed especially for you!
Revitalize your teaching by revitalizing yourself!

Where: Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose
When: February 27, 2010
Time: 9 am – 4 pm with Lunch provided
Fee: $65.00

Included: * A 270-page “Watershed Explorers Educators’ Guide” (K-12) designed to build multiple literacies and to help students develop an informed "sense of place."
* Children’s Discovery Museum’s BioSITE (Students Investigating Their Environment) Environmental Science Curriculum for High School- Elementary Service Learning Program.

RSVP: By 2/1/2010
To Sandy Derby- 408.298-5437 x261
sderby@cdm.org
Details will follow RSVP

Facilitated by Pamela Michael, ROW executive director and co-founder

River of Words® (ROW) is a nature-based science, art and poetry program created to promote watershed awareness, literacy and the arts. Through our annual youth art and poetry contest and educator's tools, River of Words helps young people explore the natural and cultural history of their own communities.

The River of Words (ROW) workshop provides K-12 educators (classroom teachers and other non-formal educators) with ideas and inspiration for integrating nature exploration and the arts into core subject areas like science and math, social studies, and language arts.

Explore creek ecology and the natural and cultural history of the area's watershed, combined with a study of the "art of creeks” and the “language of landscape”
Learn to inspire nature-based art and poetry
Learn about your watershed and bioregion
Make and take your own journal
Explore new resources, from videos to books and websites
Inspire and spark students' imagination and sense of wonder

Retreat Reflect Revitalize