While gearing up for RiverLink’s Voices of the River Art and Poetry contest and organizing our RiverCamp summer camp, RiverLink has not forgotten about our fantastic education programs!
This February, the New Classical School invited RiverLink to join 50 students in addressing watershed conservation issues through hands-on environmental education activities. RiverLink partnered with Chris Hanson of Warren Wilson and covered the Enviroscape where students build a community and see how different types of pollution affect our water supply.
The next activity, Project WET’s “A Drop in the Bucket,” illustrated the amount of fresh, clean available water on our planet. The students were enthusiastic and concerned about these relevant issues and even brought up ways they could help, including picking up litter close to their school.
RiverLink’s education program reaches close to 5,000 students throughout the year. If you are interested in RiverLink providing free environmental education for your classroom, school or community group please contact Lizzy Stokes-Cawley, the Education Coordinator via email at [email protected] or phone at (828) 252-8474 ext. 18.