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. Full or half day field trips are available. 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 2016-18 we toured 9 elementary schools in SD 71 with our interactive 3D Comox Valley Watershed model, sharing the presentation with over 2,000 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!
Thanks to a grant from Comox Valley Community Foundation, we were able to purchase educational material for a new aquatic macroinvertebrate 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 will be offered to elementary schools in fall of 2018. Contact us if you are interested. Thanks to the Comox Valley Community Foundation for your financial support.
We are also continuing our involvement with the WildBC program, an environmental educational program offered by the Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation. We have just completed our partnership with Huband Elementary school in SD 71 and in fall 2018 we will start with Ecole Puntledge Park.
Between 2016-18 we toured 9 elementary schools in SD 71 with our interactive 3D Comox Valley Watershed model, sharing the presentation with over 2,000 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!
Thanks to a grant from Comox Valley Community Foundation, we were able to purchase educational material for a new aquatic macroinvertebrate 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 will be offered to elementary schools in fall of 2018. Contact us if you are interested. Thanks to the Comox Valley Community Foundation for your financial support.
We are also continuing our involvement with the WildBC program, an environmental educational program offered by the Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation. We have just completed our partnership with Huband Elementary school in SD 71 and in fall 2018 we will start with Ecole Puntledge Park.