OUTREACH AND EDUCATION: bringing the outdoors 
into your classrooms in the new school, year ... 
details on Passport to Texas

This is Passport to Texas

TPW offers a variety of enhancements for teachers 
and educators to use in and out of the classroom.

19 -- We offer outdoor skills training; we offer additions to 
curriculum - all kinds of supportive materials - to help people 
introduce youth to the outdoors and to outdoor skills so that they 
become more aware of their surroundings, enjoy the natural 
world, and feel connected to our natural resources.

Nancy Herron is Director of Outreach and Education. A 
new curriculum on aquatic ecosystems of Texas provides 
a template for understanding water, the living things that 
depend on it, and our future decisions about it.

31 -- Without a basic understanding of how our aquatic systems 
work, it's going to be very difficult to make those tough decisions 
that are facing us, such as how much water we need to have in a 
stream? Isn't that an unusual question? I mean, it's not something 
that people normally would think about; how would you even 
understand how to approach that question? Our folks are going to 
be making a lot of tough decisions in the future as we balance the 
needs of people and the environment. And we need to have a 
good understanding of how the environment works to do that.

The electronic student and teacher guides for aquatic 
ecosystems of Texas will be available on the TPW website, 
and partner website: the Meadows Center for Water and 
the Environment, and the Hart Research Institute.

The Sport Fish Restoration program supports our series 
and works increase fishing and boating opportunities in 
Texas.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti.






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