...Empowering teachers to lead their students in getting to know and improve local natural resources

                 
                
The Yakima Basin Environmental Education Program provides:

•  Four teacher training days per year for two years led by natural resource professionals, with clock hours and reimbursement for substitutes available

•  Mentoring & planning assistance

•  Curriculum materials & equipment for loan

•  Contacts with natural resource professionals and community resource people

•  Schoolyard Habitat development assistance

•  Classroom presentations

•  Student fieldtrips

•  Salmon in the Classroom

•  Field project opportunities

•  Natural resource student job shadows & internships