Registration is Open for 13th Annual Watershed Workshop

Previous participants seine the Delaware Bay and get a closer look at all of the Estuarine critters found in the Bay. (Photo courtesy of Partnership for the Delaware Estuary)

Teachers and other educators, get ready to clock over 35 hours of continuing professional education or professional development hours during the 13th Annual Delaware Estuary Watershed Teacher Workshop.

Offered by the Bucks County Conservation District, the Partnership for the Delaware Watershed, and Pennsylvania’s Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Bureau of State Parks, the workshop will be held from July 20 – 24. Participants will get the opportunity to learn more about the Delaware Watershed through classroom and field experiences.

Attendees will literally get to experience the watershed from its upper portions to the mouth of the Delaware Bay, as they spend three days in Bucks County, one day exploring Philadelphia and New Jersey, and finishing the program with an overnight stay in Lewes, Delaware with free accommodations.

Some of the topics covered include but are not limited to the following:
• Learning the differences between rural and urban watersheds
• Getting up close and personal with horseshoe crabs
• Exploring wetlands and their functions
• Seining for creatures in the bay
• Learning how everyday activities affect the watershed

Eligible participants must either be a K-12 classroom teacher, or an environmental instructor in a school or an organization within the Delaware River Watershed.

Participants are required to pay a fee of $50.

Space is limited to 25 people.

On July 16 from 8:00am-4:00pm at Tyler State Park in Newtown, PA, Teacher Workshop attendees are invited to take a free course titled, Watersheds 101. Anyone who completes Watershed 101 along with the 5-day workshop will receive additional professional hours, a curriculum manual, and access to the Watershed Program.

For more information, please contact Cheryl Jackson at (800) 445-4935, extension 112, or e-mail her at CJackson@DelawareEstuary.org.

A link to the registration form can be found on the website of the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary.