Summer Family Adventures Kick Off with New Tracking Thursdays
Teton Science Schools are set to begin another fantastic summer filled with adventures for youth and families. This year we are excited to announce the addition of Tracking Thursdays: Evening Stroll and Ice Cream. …
One Great Story
My final week in the field was a great conclusion to my time as an AmeriCorps volunteer. The group of students I lead was a fourth grade class from Rock Springs, Wyoming. This was the youngest group of children I have worked with, …
Graduate Students Explore Yellowstone
Graduate Students spent four weeks of April and May studying the botany, ornithology, and insects of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in an academic course titled Advanced Elements of Field Ecology. The purpose was to familiarize them with these topics of ecology, …
Place Learning and Civic Engagement: Connecting Elementary Science to Studentsâ Home Places
Next week Teton Science Schools and the University of Wyoming’s Science and Math Teaching Center are collaborating to kick off the statewide, year-long Professional Development program, Place Learning And Civic Engagement [PLACE]: Connecting elementary science to students’ home places. …
Graduation and Celebration
Last Wednesday, in front of almost 400 people (including 80 who watched our virtual webcast), Journeys School graduated six seniors, sixteen 8th grade students, and twelve 5th grade students. This culmination of the tenth year of Journeys School was a good reminder of the community we live in and the potential of our graduates. …
Finalist! Understanding Local Implications of Global Climate Change
Amid appetizers, drinks and celebration, 1% for the Tetons announced eight grant proposals as 2011 finalist projects. The Conservation Research Center’s project, Understanding local implications of global climate change, was among the group. Our project will enhance understanding of the local implications of climate change in the Tetons area and will build on our existing pika (Ochotona princeps) research. …
Summer is Here
May and early June is such an exciting time with all of the dramatic phenological changes. Aspen leaves are expanding from buds, charismatic mega-fauna giving birth, aquatic insects emerging from rivers, migrant birds returning to the Valley, …