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Join our community of educators and bring outdoors to your classroom. We offer various programs to enhance both your and your student's understanding of local environment.

Delta Studies Institute

Floodplains & Delta Ecology

Classroom Aquarium Education

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Floodplains and Delta Ecology

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​Come learn about the environment of floodplains and the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta for 3 days of field work (July 16 - 18, 2019) and a follow up workshop (November 12, 2019).  
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Highlights:

• Full day bus tour of the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta will visit:

1. The Cosumnes River Preserve. (Includes a two hour canoe trip)
2. Tour of DWR's Carbon Sequestration Project on Twitchell Island
3. Visit to the Big Break Regional Shoreline

• Project WET certification and the excellent 516 page activity guide provided by the Water Education Foundation
• A talk with naturalists at the San Joaquin National Wildlife Refuge
• Hands-on activities and integrated lessons with literary links
• Two units of credit available through Teachers College of San Joaquin (additional cost - $95)
• $200 Stipend upon completion

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Region 6 Environmental Literacy Community of Practice

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Join the Environmental Literacy Regional Community of Practice for K-12 teachers and administrators. Participants will have an opportunity to learn about California's Environmental Principles and Concepts and consider ways to integrate them into traditional course disciplines.  Science will be the focus of the EP&C integration, but we will also begin to consider the connections in History/Social Science, Health, and CTE Pathways. 
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Due to significant interest in participating in this program and the constraint of having uniform distribution of participants across grade bands, there will be a screening process of applicants who register.  We will notify you by email if you have been chosen as a participant for this project.  Thanks for your patience and understanding. 
 
 Full participation in the program enables you to qualify for a $500 stipend.

Meeting Dates:

• Call to Action Dinner, April 17, 2019 
• Enhancing Environmental Literacy Workshop, May 4, 2019 
• Environmental Literacy Symposium, June 22, 2019 

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2018/2019  Environmental Literacy Cohort (3-5)

Passionate about your students learning about nature and building their environmental literacy?  Please join a cohort of teachers that are interested in learning more about California's Environmental Principles & Concepts embedded within the NGSS. 
Full participation in the program enables you to qualify for a $250 stipend and there is funding to waive the registration fee of up to 10 MEANDER field trips for the cohort.  
Meeting Dates:

• January 12, 2019 - 3-5 Environmental Literacy Cohort - First Meeting (Durham Ferry)
• February 7, 2019 - 4:30pm-6:30pm Follow-up meeting (Harmony Grove Lab, SJCOE)
• May 2, 2019 - 4:30pm-6:30pm Follow-up meeting (Durham Ferry)

Registration is now closed

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Contact Us:
Dean Reese
Outdoor Education and
Environmental Literacy Coordinator 
dreese@sjcoe.net
(209) 292-2713

Kristine Stepping
Outdoor Education and 
Environmental Literacy
​Program Manager
kstepping@sjcoe.net
​(209) 292 -2715

Address:
Durham Ferry
Outdoor Education Center
29442 Airport Way
Manteca, CA 95337