Year-3: Estuaries & steep places
Teachers exploring a potential landslide lobe near Dzantik’i Heeni Middle School. Christine Huff photo.
Two kinds of landforms & habitats have consumed my attention this winter and spring—estuaries and steep places. In planning for this summer’s Discovery workshops, Steve and Kelly concurred that estuaries and steep places would make a fun focal pair. With this year’s heavy enrollment, we want places expansive enough for large groups to assemble and converse off-trail, which in largely-forested Lingít Aaní makes estuaries appealing. For me, Taashuyee—our frontyard tidal wetlands—are fresh in mind because the US Fish & Wildlife Service celebrated them nationally this May for American Wetlands Month. I assisted their team in preparing materials for a Taashuyee StoryMap.
As for steep places, they’re in sight of every school. Even in the freight-train, stop-for-no-one pace of our K-through-college tournament, teachers can step outside for 15 minutes with students and observe them. This course was our first opportunity to share ideas about goats in education and citizen science. After a heavy snow winter when avalanches were on everybody’s mind, steep places seem to merit closer study.
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