Outreach and Education
The Tsolum River Restoration Society has a long history of engaging children and youth in stream stewardship. In the spring and fall we offer FREE field trips to Tsolum River Spirit Park or Comox Exhibition Grounds along the banks for the Tsolum River to elementary school kids. We also can extend the field trip learning by spending half a day in your classroom after the morning field trip. If you are interested in booking a field trip, contact Caroline at 250-897-4670. trrs.educationoutreach@gmail.com
Between 2016-20 we toured every public and private elementary school in SD#71 with our interactive 3D Comox Valley Watershed model, sharing the presentation with over 4,000 school kids. The presentation offers hands on experience of how water moves through our watershed, and helps kids to orient themselves in our valley with different landmarks. We talk about the water cycle and how land uses such as the historical copper mine near Mount Washington affected the Tsolum River. And yes, there is water involved! We are continuing with presenting in schools in 2023 and have so far visited Puntledge, Brooklyn, and Courtenay Elementary schools. Contact us if you are intersted in having the model visit your school.
Thanks to a grant from Comox Valley Community Foundation, we were able to purchase educational material for a new aquatic macro-invertebrate program. We have a variety of hand lenses, viewing scopes, and insect viewers so that kids can collect, explore, and understand the aquatic insects that live in the local creeks, and why they are indicators of stream health. This new program is offered in the spring or fall each year and is 1 to 1.5 hours in length per class. Contact us if you are interested. Thanks to the Comox Valley Community Foundation for your financial support.
Between 2016-20 we toured every public and private elementary school in SD#71 with our interactive 3D Comox Valley Watershed model, sharing the presentation with over 4,000 school kids. The presentation offers hands on experience of how water moves through our watershed, and helps kids to orient themselves in our valley with different landmarks. We talk about the water cycle and how land uses such as the historical copper mine near Mount Washington affected the Tsolum River. And yes, there is water involved! We are continuing with presenting in schools in 2023 and have so far visited Puntledge, Brooklyn, and Courtenay Elementary schools. Contact us if you are intersted in having the model visit your school.
Thanks to a grant from Comox Valley Community Foundation, we were able to purchase educational material for a new aquatic macro-invertebrate program. We have a variety of hand lenses, viewing scopes, and insect viewers so that kids can collect, explore, and understand the aquatic insects that live in the local creeks, and why they are indicators of stream health. This new program is offered in the spring or fall each year and is 1 to 1.5 hours in length per class. Contact us if you are interested. Thanks to the Comox Valley Community Foundation for your financial support.