Powder Valley Nature Center

This is a Hunter Education certification training for educators seeking to teach and certify students in their perspective school districts. Participants will need to be hunter education student certified and complete forms 1A and 1B prior to attending the workshop, to receive these forms email Scott.Sarantakis@mdc.mo.gov

Participants will be trained in the following areas:

-Equipment, casting, and proper fish handling

-How to Tie a Knot and bait a Hook

-Five Common Missouri Fish-Their Anatomy, Habitat, and Life Cycle

-Fishing with Lures and Fishing Regulations

Upon completion of the training schools will be eligible for fishing equipment in order to teach the lessons to their students. We will be outside for the duration of the class so please dress appropriately.

Nature Unbound is a high school level ecology unit designed to build on knowledge and concept foundations taught in basic biology. Supporting expectations from the MLS and NGSS, emphasis of this unit is on student-centered and collaborative investigations of ecosystem dynamics, cycles of matter and energy transfer, interdependent relationships, and human impact on biodiversity. This workshop will cover lessons and activities from the unit as well as an outdoor, experiential approach to student learning. All materials will be provided.

This training is for school teacher that will conducting Hunter Education in the school classroom setting. All teachers need to be student hunter education certified prior to the training. Please contact David Bruns at 314-301-1500 if you have any questions.

This is a virtual training which will use endangered species as a topic to introduce teachers to the Discover Nature Schools program.  Information about the MDC Teacher Portal will also be covered.

This will be the on-line virtual portion of the training in the Nature Revealed Pre-K unit which will be conducted using Webex Meetings.

The second part of the training will take place in-person, outdoors, at the school(s) Date: TBD

Nature Revealed is the pre-kindergarten instructional unit in the Discover Nature Schools series from the Missouri Department of Conservation.

It provides important facets of the DNS Nature Revealed unit: Organization of the teacher guide including cross-referenced appendices, best practices in leading nature experiences in early childhood, connections to learning goals, seasonal arrangement of experiences, construction and use of developmentally appropriate science notebooks, and prep and use of manipulatives including puzzles and story board characters.

Overview of the DNS Program with emphasis on Nature Unfolds and Nature Unleashed for St. Louis Public Schools K-5 Science Curriculum Team

Nature Revealed is the pre-kindergarten instructional unit in the Discover Nature Schools series from the Missouri Department of Conservation.

This is a professional development workshop. It consists of a presentation to introduce important facets of the unit: