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Teachers learn to use natural resources

Volunteers host a day-long teacher training

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Teachers learn new things at an environmental teacher training at Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Washougal. Volunteers shared new techniques and information on how to use the local refuge to bolster educators' science curriculum. Teachers participated in watching for and counting Purple Martins, a rare bird that nests there each summer.

Educators in the Camas-Washougal area spent a recent Tuesday morning exploring ways to teach their students by getting outside of the classroom and into nature.

Jim Clapp, Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge manager, coordinated two environmental education teacher trainings held at the refuge and nearby Jemtegaard Middle School in Washougal. With the help of the Columbia Gorge Refuge Stewards, Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership, Educational Service District 112 and Friends of the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, teachers from Camas, Washougal and Battle Ground spent six hours learning how to teach using the outdoors.

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