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Know Your Watershed

Know Your Watershed was a program of the Columbia Basin Trust administered and delivered by Wildsight. This program is no longer in operation. However, we offer free online resources for your students to address watershed learning.

Is Know Your Watershed Online for your class?
● For any Grade 9 science student in the Columbia Basin
● Integrated with Grade 9 Science and Social Studies curriculum
● 9 online lessons with short, engaging videos and easy, hands-on lesson ideas
● You can recommend single, multiple, or all lessons to your students
● All completely free

Big Ideas in the BC curriculum supported by Know Your Watershed include:
● Science 9: The biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere are interconnected, as matter cycles and energy flows through them.
● Social Studies 9: The physical environment influences the nature of political, social, and economic change.

For more information, contact:
Dave Quinn, Know Your Watershed Coordinator
250-427-5666

Monica Nissen, Wildsight Education Program Director
250-354-9655


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