LIVE STREAM: Lindsey Page serves as a computer operator for a Water Rocks virtual presentation. Iowa Learning Farms: Interns play critical role in Water Rocks’ efforts to support classroom and home education.
Liz Ripley | Feb 17, 2021
Water Rocks is known for its innovative and creative programs to educate Iowa s youth about natural resources, conservation and what they can do to individually participate in making a difference. Despite the radical changes to how education is being done throughout the past year, Water Rocks has continued to create and launch new programs that support teachers and parents classroom and at-home education efforts. Water resources interns Lindsey Page and Riley Wilgenbusch, who joined the team in recent months, are helping to support these outreach efforts in uniquely challenging times.
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CONSERVATION POETRY: Spoken Earth mixes conservation topics like biodiversity with poetry. The initial program was presented in December to 105 eighth graders from multiple Iowa schools. Water Rocks program unites natural resources and conservation topics with poetry.
Hilary Pierce | Dec 17, 2020
Art and science are at the foundation of the Water Rocks program. Incorporating music, video, visual arts, movement and dance, the educators from Water Rocks grab the attention of young learners and help cement STEM lessons in their minds and, hopefully, their lives.
During the pandemic, many programs have successfully moved online or outdoors, and some exciting new virtual programs have been launched as well. Among them is the Water Rocks Spoken Earth virtual program for secondary students being readied for school groups in January.