4th grade Watershed Field Trips Volunteer Opportunity

PVAS has 4th grade watershed field trips coming up the week of March 29 and April 12. These will mostly be to the Izaak Walton League (near Yankauer Preserve in Berkeley County), but 2 days will be at the Cacapon River in Berkeley Springs and 2 days at Back Creek for Tomahawk Intermediate School (just past downtown Hedgesville).

For these experiences, the students practice the skills they have been learning in class: testing the water quality, looking for macroinvertebrates, assessing the stream bank for erosion, sometimes experimenting with a stream table, experimenting with filtering water, and sometimes learning about garbage and pollution.
Generally, the students are there 9-1; volunteers are usually 8:00-1:30.

The specific dates are:

• March 29-South Jefferson (Izaak Walton League)
• March 30-Warm Springs/Pleasant View (Ginny Shade’s Campground, Great Cacapon)
• March 31-Warm Springs (Ginny Shade’s Campground, Great Cacapon)
• April 1-TA Lowery (Izaak Walton League)
• April 12-Morgan Academy and St Joes (Izaak Walton League)
• April 13-North Jefferson (Izaak Walton League)
• April 14-Shepherdstown (Izaak Walton League)
• April 15-Tomahawk (Back Creek on Route 9, at Tomahawk School)
• April 16-Tomahawk (Back Creek on Route 9, at Tomahawk School)

If you would be available for ANY of these days, please let me know. We usually have about 100 students a day and the more volunteers, the smaller the groups can be. This is not a “closed group”—if you know of others who might be able help, let them know!

Thanks-

Ellen