Most soil and water conservation districts spend a considerable amount of time working with schools and developing school programs. Establishing your district as a reliable source for environmental education takes time and effort. Below are suggestions that have worked for various districts around the state. Please keep in mind that these are just a few places to begin and are in no particular order.
Make appointments to meet with the principal. Your presentation should include how your suggested activities can correlate to the academic content standards, especially science.
Make one good, enthusiastic contact in a specific grade or class, other than the administration. This person will help promote your programs by positive word-of-mouth advertising.
Provide an in-service presentation at the school highlighting the services you can provide for the classroom. This can be done before or after school, or for a local teacher in-service day. You might demonstrate a groundwater model or do a short activity out of Project WET.
Host teacher workshops either during the school year or in the summer. Provide college credit for these workshops if at all possible. Attending Project WET, Project Learning Tree, Project WILD, or Project Food, Land & People facilitator workshops will help prepare you to host teacher workshops. Working with a local teacher allows for a division of the work and twice the creativity for the workshop.
Develop an education newsletter to distribute to teachers. This is a good way to get information out about your programs.
Be as helpful as possible when visiting a classroom. If you are asked a question that you don’t know the answer to, admit you don't, but make sure you find the answer and report back.
Make it known that you are willing to help local schools with special events such as science fairs, science days, or earth day events. If your school district, city or county has a listing of resource people for these events, get your organization ’s name added to the list. This is a great way to make new contacts and allows teachers to see your interaction with the students.
Above all, establish your organization as a reliable source for natural resource information. Keep commitments you set and do a quality presentation when asked to visit a school. The opportunities are endless for organizations that have good working relationships with their local schools.
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