[PCA] USDA Forest Service: Free Educator’s Workshop in DC (June 7, 2019) Register by May 28 - focus on bats, but the plants matter too!

[De Angelis, Patricia]

Attention Native Plant and Ecosystem Educators!

The USDA Forest Service is teaming up with Project Edubat, to host a free
workshop for local educators. Project EduBat seeks to inspire, excite, and
activate students to help out bats and the environment through
inquiry-based learning. All participants in the workshop will receive free
educational materials and will gain access to free bat educational trunks.

The workshop will be held Washington DC in the USDA Yates Building located
on the corner of 14th St SW and Independence Ave on June 7, 2019 from 9:30
– 1:30.

Registration is required by May 28th.

This exciting workshop will be led by Andrea Futrell, a teacher, caver, and
bat biologist. All activities can be used in a classroom or they can be
used in naturalist programs, outdoor classrooms, or at fairs and festivals.
The workshop will also include a free lunch and provide continuing
education hours to qualifying teachers. The workshop is only available for
25 educators and spots are filling up quickly.

Topics include:
• Become a bat biologist by weighing and measuring “bats;“
• Calculate the value of our insect-eating in bats that save farmers
billions every year;
• Explore how changes in the environment can disrupt an ecosystem and
threaten the health and survival of wildlife populations;
• Explore the scientific methods used to investigate how infectious
diseases spread, and much more!

If you are interested, have questions or would like to reserve you spot
please contact Kristen Doss at kbeverage at fs.fed.us or 304-799-4334 x29.

Funding support for this workshop comes in part from the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service.
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