• When: Wednesday, June 4, 2025, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• Where: 950 Winslow Hill Road, Benezette, PA 15821.
• Audience: Formal educators (classroom teachers, administrators, etc.) and nonformal educators (naturalists, environmental educators, conservation districts, etc.).
• Act 48: Up to 5.5 hours.
• Cost: FREE, including lunch.

Registration is limited, and the deadline is Monday, May 5, 2025, at 4 p.m. Email watershed@elkconservationdistrict.com for the registration link.

Calling All Educators!

Getting students to experience a stream study with live macroinvertebrates can be challenging when you factor in travel time and short class periods. 

Stroud Water Research Center has a solution for you: our DIY Macroinvertebrate Discovery Tank. It’s an exciting and accessible teaching tool for K–12 students and public audiences to examine freshwater biology. The tank provides a short-term environment for stream critters that you can set up at your school or another location.

In this workshop, you will:

• Get hands-on experience with a Stroud Center–designed aquatic macroinvertebrate discovery tank. From setup to takedown, you’ll learn how to make stream lessons more accessible.
• Discover resources to support your use of a discovery tank as a teaching tool and activities on aquatic macroinvertebrates for K–12 students and public audiences.
• Understand how the discovery tank experience works with Pennsylvania’s STEELS standards and NOAA’s Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience framework.

 We’ll spend our time indoors and outside at our research stream. You’ll also have an opportunity to ask questions, experience this learning tool for yourself, and plan where it can be used to serve your audiences. Up to 5.5 Act 48 hours will be provided for Pa.-certified teachers.