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• How To Teach Nature Journaling

  • Start
    19 Jun 2020
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    (CDT)
  • End
    24 Jul 2020
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    (CDT)
  • Schedule
    6 sessions
  • Location
    Remote

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  This professional development will facilitate a professional learning community of educators who want to dig deeper using a nature or field journal in their instruction. We will use How to Teach Nature Journaling as our text. We will go beyond drawing and sketching to using the journal as a cross curricular method of instruction.

  This hybrid course will meet weekly via Zoom to share work and reflections on how to integrate the nature or field journal into instruction both in person and online. There will be an optional day long excursion to Badlands National Park on June 30 for an ethnobotany hike with Richard Sherman and other journaling activities. A tentative live stream with Richard is being planned.

  Dates: June 15 - July 27
  Location: Remote
  Credit: One
  Fee: Nonmembers $5, Members, Pierre and Eagle Butte School Districts Free
  Grade Target: K-12

  
  

  
  

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• Field Research in the Classroom

  • Start
    29 Jun 2020
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    (CDT)
  • End
    7 Aug 2020
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    (CDT)
  • Location
    Remote

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  New this year!

  In this independent study professional development opportunity, teachers use iNaturalist and GLOBE in place based research  that specifically addresses NGSS cross cutting concepts and disciplinary core ideas.  The teacher researchers will integrate their research into lessons as the phenomena for student inquiry and investigation. The lessons will be formatted for in person, remote, or hybrid instruciton.

  The research will focus on collecting data for one of three investigation questions:

  • How does energy move through the organisms in my place? 
  • How do land and water in my place impact each other? 
  • How does my place change over different time scales?

  This is an independent study PD with regular checkins with the course facilitator. Those contributing data to the GLOBE database must become GLOBE trained. Those already who are GLOBE trained will need to become trained in the protocol for their research question if they are not already.

  Dates: June 29-Aug 7
  Location: Remote
  Credit: One (per investigation)
  Fee: Members $5, Nonmembers $10, Pierre and Eagle Butte School Districts Free
  Grade Target: 4-12

  For more information about this course please see https://sites.google.com/sd-discovery.org/field-research-for-teachers/home

  
  

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• Virtual Sprouts: Forager

  • Start
    13 Jul 2020
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    4:30 PM (CDT)
  • End
    16 Jul 2020
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    5:30 PM (CDT)
  • Location
    Remote
  • Spaces left
    19

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  Health Track: Cooking

  Sprouts: Forager

  Ages: K-2nd grade

  Limit: 20

  Fee: Non-members $22, Members $19

  
  

  
  

  What’s for Dinner?! How many times do you hear that question and wonder or wish the person asking it would magically do the cooking? Bring your whole family into the kitchen and zoom with SDDC staff to learn how to forage for the raw materials in your cupboards and fridge to make a nutritious and delicious meal. 

  Covid 19 Update

  Due to increasing cases of Covid 19 in Hughes County and a rising rate of spread, we will be suspending in person camps and will be offering virtual programs again. Our number one priority is the safety of our staff and our community members. We will re-evaluate on a week to week basis. Please remember to wash your hands, wear a mask in public places and continue to practice social distancing.

  
  

  
  

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• Saplings: Electrical Engineer

  • Start
    20 Jul 2020
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    9:00 AM (CDT)
  • End
    23 Jul 2020
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    12:00 PM (CDT)
  • Location
    SD Discovery Center
  • Spaces left
    15

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  Tech Track: Engineering

  Saplings: Electrical Engineer

  Ages: 6th-8th grade

  Limit: 15

  Fee: Non-members $22, Members $19

  
  

  Warning! Warning! Sensor Alert! What if every time you left the bathroom a sensor beeped at you to remind you to wash your hands? How do car seat belt sensors work? Learn how engineers use circuits to create sensors and design your own. Meet an electrical engineer!

  Covid 19 Camp Protocol: 
  

  • Daily screenings will occur at check-in. Families will be reminded to keep any children home that have a fever, cough, or if any other family member has had similar symptoms or confirmed diagnosis of exposure to Covid-19 in the past 14 days. In addition, if members of the family have recently traveled or been in contact with people in areas with elevated spread, we will ask that children not participate. 

  • Camps will limit group size so that no more than 10 kids will be congregated in one confined location at any given time. 

  • Hand washing will be regularly scheduled and taught throughout the camp.

  • Staff will be masked.

  • Supplies will not be shared to the extent possible and re-usable items will be sterilized every day. 

  • Activities will be run outside unless adverse weather requires that we be inside.

  • If a confirmed case is identified among staff or campers, families will be notified of the risk of exposure, and programs will be suspended until further notice.

  Campers will not be required to wear masks, but parents and guardians may send a mask if they wish for their child to wear one.

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• Shoots: Special Effects Artist

  • Start
    27 Jul 2020
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    9:00 AM (CDT)
  • End
    30 Jul 2020
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    12:00 PM (CDT)
  • Location
    SD Discovery Center
  • Spaces left
    13

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  Tech Track: Entertainment

  Shoots: Special Effects Artist

  Ages: 3rd-5th grade

  Limit: 15

  Fee: Non-members $25, Members $21

  
  

  Is everything you see in a movie real?  Fake blood, swords, space craft, castles, and more are not what you expect.   Become a special effects artist by learning about making models, changing ordinary objects into something extraordinary, or make small things look big or big things look small. Visit with artists from South Dakota who use these techniques for the stage and for movies and TV. 

  Covid 19 Camp Protocol: 
  

  • Daily screenings will occur at check-in. Families will be reminded to keep any children home that have a fever, cough, or if any other family member has had similar symptoms or confirmed diagnosis of exposure to Covid-19 in the past 14 days. In addition, if members of the family have recently traveled or been in contact with people in areas with elevated spread, we will ask that children not participate. 

  • Camps will limit group size so that no more than 10 kids will be congregated in one confined location at any given time. 

  • Hand washing will be regularly scheduled and taught throughout the camp.

  • Staff will be masked.

  • Supplies will not be shared to the extent possible and re-usable items will be sterilized every day. 

  • Activities will be run outside unless adverse weather requires that we be inside.

  • If a confirmed case is identified among staff or campers, families will be notified of the risk of exposure, and programs will be suspended until further notice.

  Campers will not be required to wear masks, but parents and guardians may send a mask if they wish for their child to wear one.

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• Saplings: Emergency Responder

  • Start
    3 Aug 2020
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    9:00 AM (CDT)
  • End
    6 Aug 2020
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    12:00 PM (CDT)
  • Location
    SD Discovery Center
  • Spaces left
    15

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  Explorer Track: Environment

  Saplings: Emergency Responder

  Civil Air Patrol / National Guard Museum

  Ages: 6th-8th grade

  Limit: 15 

  Fee: Non-members $15, Members $13

  Program Description: Emergency! Emergency! Someone got lost while hunting, a boat has capsized on the lake, your neighbor has fallen and broken their arm. Join the Civil Air Patrol in exploring how to serve our community as an emergency responder. Each session, we will role play different emergency situations and practice skills CAP volunteers, EMTs, firefighters and other first responders use to help. Learn about how you can join the Civil Air Patrol Cadet Program.

  
  

  Covid 19 Camp Protocol: 
  

  • Daily screenings will occur at check-in. Families will be reminded to keep any children home that have a fever, cough, or if any other family member has had similar symptoms or confirmed diagnosis of exposure to Covid-19 in the past 14 days. In addition, if members of the family have recently traveled or been in contact with people in areas with elevated spread, we will ask that children not participate. 

  • Camps will limit group size so that no more than 10 kids will be congregated in one confined location at any given time. 

  • Hand washing will be regularly scheduled and taught throughout the camp.

  • Staff will be masked.

  • Supplies will not be shared to the extent possible and re-usable items will be sterilized every day. 

  • Activities will be run outside unless adverse weather requires that we be inside.

  • If a confirmed case is identified among staff or campers, families will be notified of the risk of exposure, and programs will be suspended until further notice.

  Campers will not be required to wear masks, but parents and guardians may send a mask if they wish for their child to wear one.

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• Sprouts: Biologist

  • Start
    10 Aug 2020
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    9:00 AM (CDT)
  • End
    13 Aug 2020
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    12:00 PM (CDT)
  • Location
    SD Discovery Center
  • Spaces left
    19

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  Science Track: Life Science

  Sprouts: Biologist

  Ages: K-2nd grade

  Limit: 20

  Fee: Non-members $22, Members $19

  Program Description: On Guard! Come learn about how animals use different strategies to protect themselves from predators or to blend in so they can sneak up on their prey.  Meet a biologist who studies animals in the wild. 

  Covid 19 Camp Protocol: 
  

  • Daily screenings will occur at check-in. Families will be reminded to keep any children home that have a fever, cough, or if any other family member has had similar symptoms or confirmed diagnosis of exposure to Covid-19 in the past 14 days. In addition, if members of the family have recently traveled or been in contact with people in areas with elevated spread, we will ask that children not participate. 

  • Camps will limit group size so that no more than 10 kids will be congregated in one confined location at any given time. 

  • Hand washing will be regularly scheduled and taught throughout the camp.

  • Staff will be masked.

  • Supplies will not be shared to the extent possible and re-usable items will be sterilized every day. 

  • Activities will be run outside unless adverse weather requires that we be inside.

  • If a confirmed case is identified among staff or campers, families will be notified of the risk of exposure, and programs will be suspended until further notice.

  Campers will not be required to wear masks, but parents and guardians may send a mask if they wish for their child to wear one.

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