Teacher discounts are available. Knee Deep in Louisiana Wetlands - The Estuary Program will be sponsoring twelve workshops in LA to familiarize educators with the use of a lively CD on Louisiana Wetland types, animals and plants, unusual facts, and lesson plans and activities for teachers. Contact Sharon Lantz at the Educational Technology Review Center in Lafayette for more information. Campers stay at the Grand Terre lab facility near Grand Isle. They are treated to a variety of marsh activities and experiences, which are tremendously enjoyable and expand students' knowledge and awareness of coastal issues and processes.
Campers learn about environmental stewardship, estuary issues, and take several field trips.
The Summer 2000 camps will be held at Nicholls State University, and will include campers from -Assumption, Terrebonne, and Lafourche parishes. Curriculum will revolve around teaching about non-point source pollution issues. At this site, educators will find informationon the incredible migration of the monarch butterfly from its wintering ground in Mexico, to its breeding ground in Nebraska and Kansas. They will also find information on tagging of butterflies, participating in observations of migrating monarchs, ordering of posters, curriculum and other educational materials, and adopting a classroom in the insect's impoverished winter home of Mexico. The tool kit includes a 2-color poster, fact sheet, flyer, sample public service announcements and press releases, and other materials that can be downloaded and adapted to meet the needs of local groups.