The Bosque Education Guide Workshop

Saturday, January 7, 2012

8:30 a.m. - 4: 30 p.m. at the Rio Grande Nature Center State Park
The Bosque Education Guide is an interdisciplinary curriculum about the Middle Rio Grande Valley ecosystem. The curriculum provides classroom-based and field activities for students grades K-12. For the central activity, students construct a model of the Middle Rio Grande and then manipulate the paper and cloth pieces to demonstrate human impacts over the last two hundred years. Later, they restore the ecosystem. More information about the curriculum and some downloadable materials are available on the website, http://nmnaturalhistory.org/bosque-education-guide.html

Features of the Bosque Education Guide curriculum

K-12 Correlated to New Mexico education standards Spanish materials available for download 699 pages Background and appendices for teachers Suggestions for service learning in the bosque Topics include: o The geology of the valley, surface and groundwater o Demands on the rivers water budget o Flora & fauna of the valley o Natural history & human influence o Fire in the bosque

Workshop information
Workshop activities will occur indoors and outdoors. Participants should dress in comfortable clothing for the weather that day and bring a hat, sunscreen and insect repellant as needed. Also please bring a sack lunch and water bottle and/or travel mug. Workshop participants will receive the curriculum and an accompanying kit. The only cost is the Rio Grande Nature Center State Parks $3.00 per vehicle day-use fee (exact change or check).

To reserve a space, call 505-344-7240.

The workshop and the materials for participants are offered through funding from the Friends of the Rio Grande Nature Center and the workshop is 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.