Education

Workshops for Educators 2006

Great Swamp Watershed Association is facilitating several interesting and useful workshops for K-12 formal and non formal educators. Educators will experience activities they can use back in the classroom or Nature Center to teach across the educational curriculum. The workshops are hands on, led by Hazel England, Director of Outreach and Education and an experienced Naturalist educator, and provide participants with activity guides for each workshop. The 6 hour workshops are offered at little or minimal cost, and often include breakfast and lunch. They confer 6 NJDOE professional development credits too! For more information call Hazel, (973) 538 3500 ext 20, e-mail hazele@greatswamp.org or contact workshop location directly to register.

Click here to view a pdf of the course descriptions.

Publications for Elementary Schools

The Watershed Association now has a publication for elementary school children! The Pollywog newsletter is four pages of fun and learning about watersheds and what happens there. You can download an Acrobat pdf version here, or contact Hazel England at the Watershed Association (hazele@greatswamp.org) to inquire about printed copies. Ask her about our in-school education programs as well!

-- Publications and Videos

“Blue-Green Technologies: Integrated Practices to Manage Stormwater as an Asset” is now available from Great Swamp Watershed Association. The book is ideal for professional engineers, land use experts, and landscape architects. The handbook was developed as a companion to the Watershed Association’s most recent video, “Doing Water Right: Managing Stormwater with Blue-Green technology”. Click here for more information.

DEP Study ranking top risks to New Jersey’s environment and human health:
land use change poses a major environmental threat to state

-- Conservation Tips

-- Getting started on TMDLS

-- Hurricane Floyd and the Great Swamp

Conservations Easements are one way to preserve your land for future generations. Working with a land trust (a private, non-profit conservation organization) or government agency, there are many ways you can save land of conservation, historic, scenic, or other open value. To find out more, click here.

Benefits of Open Space is a collection of essays by noted conservationists from a variety of backgrounds discussing the value of open spaces from biological, economic, and psychological points of view.

Retrofitting Stormwater Detention Basins, a Rutgers University project, is now posted on-line. Click here to link to their page.

The Great Swamp Watershed Management Plan has been put on line. You can look at it by clicking here. It is a large file (170K) with a number of graphics.

Caution: This is a large file (170k) and contains a number of graphics. If you have a slow modem, it may take a while to download.

The Great Swamp Greenway and Open Space Plan has been published. For a look at the Executive Summary or to download the chapters in Word Perfect, click here.

Caution: This is a long file with several large graphics. If you have a slow modem, it may take a while to download.

The GSWA Model Stormwater Ordinance is now on-line. Click here.

(Prepared by Tourbier & Walmsley, Inc. Philadelphia, PA)