Our children will be faced with an increasingly complex world where man's need for natural resources will continue to grow. The health of the environment, whether the fragile watershed of Lake Tahoe or any other part of the world, will depend upon the ability of future generations to make informed and conscientious decisions. To ensure a world of hope and opportunity for generations to come, we must all share in the task of preparing children to take on the challenges awaiting them. In unique partnership, the USDA Forest Service, Lake Tahoe Basin Mangement Unit and the Lake Tahoe Unified School District have joined forces to provide a meaningful science curriculum for the sixth grade.
Students learn best by doing, and relating what they do to the real world.
In the Living Watershed Curriculum Project, students will study science in their own back yard. They will have the oppportunity to work with Forest Service personnel on various aspects of the science program and focus on case examples of natural resources management. Students will have a chance to understand not only the delicate forces of nature at work around them, but also the cooperation between people, government, and other organizations that is needed to make our dreams for a brighter future come true. Both natural and man made forces act upon the earth causing it to be in a state of constant change. Some of these changes are a part of the natural evolution of the earth, and some are the result of human interactions.