KLAS Hosts Field Days
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By Staff Report-
Last week KLAS held a field day at Lucerne Park for fourth graders from Jefferson Elementary and Warsaw Christian School.
Wednesday at Winona Lake about 30 homeschool students from kindergarten to 6th grade spent several hours learning about the environment around them.
Students in kindergarten through second grade focused on hands-on activities introducing them to aquatic organisms and water quality associated with the lake. The third through sixth graders learned about lakes and streams through investigation of Winona Lake and Cherry Creek.
KLAS is a community water quality program centered at Grace College which is focused on protecting and enhancing local water quality by fostering grassroots ownership among the general population.
KLAS was established three years ago with an initial seed grant from a donor-directed grant from the Kosciusko County Community Foundation.
Since then progress has been made through strategic initiatives such as establishing a network of lake association organizations, providing information through newsletters and a website, creating a data clearinghouse for all local water quality information, and planning a community lakes festival for this coming summer.
In order to effectively spread the sense of ownership for local water resources across the county population, it is vital that we engage the youngest county citizens to grow up a generation of environmentally engaged citizens.
Therefore, one of the priorities for Kosciusko Lakes and Streams is to provide our county's students active learning and engagement in the areas of water quality and stewardship of our local water resources.
To accomplish this, KLAS has begun working primarily with 4th grade classrooms.
To date, all of the county's four public school districts and three of the private schools have participated in KLAS-sponsored activities.
This program has also provided additional training and experience to teacher education candidates in the Grace College teacher education department in their participation in Field Day activities.
Five water-themed lesson plans have been developed and are available to teachers on the KLAS Web site. These are meant to supplement Field Day experiences or give some water quality instruction for students not able to attend a Field Day event.
The first KLAS field day was in October 2008.[[In-content Ad]]
Last week KLAS held a field day at Lucerne Park for fourth graders from Jefferson Elementary and Warsaw Christian School.
Wednesday at Winona Lake about 30 homeschool students from kindergarten to 6th grade spent several hours learning about the environment around them.
Students in kindergarten through second grade focused on hands-on activities introducing them to aquatic organisms and water quality associated with the lake. The third through sixth graders learned about lakes and streams through investigation of Winona Lake and Cherry Creek.
KLAS is a community water quality program centered at Grace College which is focused on protecting and enhancing local water quality by fostering grassroots ownership among the general population.
KLAS was established three years ago with an initial seed grant from a donor-directed grant from the Kosciusko County Community Foundation.
Since then progress has been made through strategic initiatives such as establishing a network of lake association organizations, providing information through newsletters and a website, creating a data clearinghouse for all local water quality information, and planning a community lakes festival for this coming summer.
In order to effectively spread the sense of ownership for local water resources across the county population, it is vital that we engage the youngest county citizens to grow up a generation of environmentally engaged citizens.
Therefore, one of the priorities for Kosciusko Lakes and Streams is to provide our county's students active learning and engagement in the areas of water quality and stewardship of our local water resources.
To accomplish this, KLAS has begun working primarily with 4th grade classrooms.
To date, all of the county's four public school districts and three of the private schools have participated in KLAS-sponsored activities.
This program has also provided additional training and experience to teacher education candidates in the Grace College teacher education department in their participation in Field Day activities.
Five water-themed lesson plans have been developed and are available to teachers on the KLAS Web site. These are meant to supplement Field Day experiences or give some water quality instruction for students not able to attend a Field Day event.
The first KLAS field day was in October 2008.[[In-content Ad]]
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