River Pathways
Submitted by Steven Prager on March 14, 2011 - 12:42pm
Curriculum Resource
Audubon Arizona, the Bureau of Land Management, the Phoenix Union High School District and Phoenix College have teamed up to provide high school students with a clear path to ecological understanding, stewardship, and careers in land and resource management. The River Pathways program introduces students to Arizona’s amazing riparian areas through five modules composed of hands-on classroom activities, a field trip to the Rio Salado Audubon Center and opportunities to take part in actual monitoring efforts being undertaken by the Bureau of Land Management on the Agua Fria National Monument. Interested students will also receive information about resource management career opportunities and will be counseled regarding the training and education necessary to pursue professions in environmental sciences. Most importantly, students from highly urbanized areas will be able to experience nature in a way that they otherwise may not have a chance to do. It is experiences like these that will allow these students to become the future stewards of the environment that our world so greatly needs.
Although the River Pathways curriculum was designed to consist of five classroom days followed by two field trips, it can be modified to fit teachers needs. Since the lessons are divided by topic, teachers can pull out individual lessons. However, students will recieve the greatest benefit from this curriculum if they participate in all five days of classroom activities as well as both field experiences.
For a copy of the River Pathways Curriculum, to schedule field trips, or to take part in our next teacher workshop, please contact Steven Prager at Audubon Arizona.
602-468-6470
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