Education and Outreach News

iUTAH sponsored a scholarship to provide the funding for 500 elementary students to attend a series of in-depth water workshops offered by the Leonardo Museum from Oct. 19, 2012 to Jan. 15, 2013. 

iUTAH EPSCoR is collaboraitng with Utah Water Watch on a rain barrel Project. The first rain barrel was installed in Moab! Thanks to YouthGardenMoab for helping out. 

The Natural History Museum of Utah sponsored a series of outdoor learning activities for K-12 students to provide them with the opportunity to conduct their own hands-on water research at the Bear River Watershed in Northern, Utah.

Activities included a series of water workshops, water tests and scientific discussions focusing on the topic of water sustainability."The outdoors is a great place to integrate the curriculum!" said Jessica Wright, a participant from Viewmont Elementary. "There are so many subject areas that can be integrated through learning outdoors. Students can use research skills as they research to find out more and they can use math skills as they analyze data they find."

Aaron Daniels, a participating teacher from Murray High School,  commented on the impact of the outdoor learning activities had on his students."Learning outdoors allows for an authentic experience where  students are involved in their own learning. They are observing, questioning, making inferences and writing it down so they can learn from it. They are thinking about themselves and how they are a part of their surroundings. They can learn that they can make a difference."

Additional iUTAH outdoor learning activities will strive to promote these same educational learning values within educational institutions throughout the state.

April 9, 2013 iUTAH will be screening "WATERSHED, Explore a New Water Ethic for the New West" at 7:00 pm at the Eccles Conference Center Auditorium at USU.

Registration is now open for the fantastic BOEP Annual Conference!

This year Four Corners School of Outdoor Education and its BOEP program are partnering with Utah State University and their iUtah EPSCoR project for our annual conference.

Bioregional Outdoor Education Project (BOEP) is a program of the Four Corners School of Outdoor Education (FCS). It is a year long, professional development program committed to helping teachers on the Colorado Plateau discover the power of “place” in everyday learning, empowering their students to grasp the significance of their own place. This conference is an annual event to bring together teachers, and other educators from the Colorado Plateau Bioregion, to learn bioregionally focused, place-based, hands-on, cross-curricular, outdoor education lessons.