2025 Spring Kick Off

Spring happenings + winter reflections with Grande Ronde Community Science

□□Spring Happenings □□ Community Science watershed investigations begin next week! Our youth will be out in the field, alongside many partners, monitoring stream sites now until the end of the school year!  □ Cove Earth Day Celebration on Saturday, April 26 □ The Community Science Project will host watershed investigations at Cove's Earth Day celebration. Join us! Please register here if you plan to come.     Steelhead Dissections + Egg to Fry Programming This spring, we are bringing the outdoors in the classroom with Steelhead Dissections and Egg to Fry programs. Regional 5th graders dissect extra steelhead from the Wallowa Hatchery and learn how incredible these organisms are! Also, some classes raise steelhead eggs to the fry stage, then release fry into an Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) approved lake. Partnerships make this work possible and include collaborating with the Forest Service, US Fish and Wildlife, ODFW, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Oregon Chapter of the America Fisheries Society, and Anderson Perry. BIG thanks to these partners! Click to view the video!     □️ Winter Reflections □️ Youth Voice : Qualitative Data Last fall, we began collecting qualitative data from youth, including their observations, questions, and perspectives of where water comes and gos. Check all the qualitative data here, and a few examples below.   Quantitative Data Our quantitative data is up to date through 2024 on this spreadsheet and is being uploaded to the IDAH20 database now. STAY TUNED!! We have some GIS students working on an ArcGIS Story Map! Teacher Workshop  In late February, we facilitated a "Nature Journaling and Water Education" workshop that included the Aquatic WILD curriculum. This workshop was offered in partnership with OSU Extension - Outdoor School,  Greater Oregon STEM Hub, and the Oregon Natural Resources Education Program. Look for more of these workshops including Project WET next year!       Professional Development  To keep our Community Science program top notch, our Community Science Coordinator, Carrie, is enrolled in a professional development program with OSU Extension - Outdoor School called Learning In Places. Through this opportunity, we are exploring new programming like increasing family engagement, collecting community qualitative data, and Schoolyard Investigations. Funding Proposals  We submitted several grant proposals to help keep our youth exploring and investigating our watershed - outdoors and hands-on! A HUGE thank you to EVERYONE who shared a letter of support. We're incredibly grateful to ALL of our amazning partners! Now cross your fingers : ) Winter Schoolyard Investigations To keep watershed investigations flowing in winter, the Community Science Project piloted Schoolyard Investigations this year with Cove 7th Graders and Central 5th Graders. Learning in Places is inspiring these Schoolyard Investigations. Want to get involved? Have questions, comments, or ideas? Reach out anytime! email: [email protected] www.granderondecommunityscience.org Thank You to our AWESOME Partners!  All rights reserved. Email [email protected] for more information. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

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