Becoming a Salmon Watch Volunteer Educator

World Salmon Council is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with the mission to provide experiential education and encounters with Pacific wild salmon to connect students and adults with nature and inspire community engagement.

 

This fall, World Salmon Council will coordinate 55 field trips for the Salmon Watch program, mid-September through mid-November.  Each field trip has four stations: salmon biology, macroinvertebrate (aquatic insect) identification, water qualtiy testing, and riparian (streambank) observation.  We're currently recruiting Volunteer Educators to teach field trip stations for the 2016-17 field grip season!  Teaching a station for middle and high school classes is fun, rewarding and a great way to spend a day.  The field trips not only provide active education, but also give kids a sense of place, an overview of Oregon's history, increase scientific and enviromental literacy and offer a personal experience with spawing salmon that will stay with them (and with the Volunteer Educators).

 

No experience is necessary to become a Volunteer Educator.  Volunteers learn everything they need to know and feel comfortable about teaching kids through training sessions for new volunteers.  The next training session will be held Saturday, September 10, 2016, from 9am - 1pm.  Trainings are located on the Sandy River at Dabney State Recreation Area (just south of the I-84/Troutdale exit.)

 

Online application available at:  https://worldsalmoncouncil.org/volunteer-educator-application-form/

Rachel Walsh, Program Coordinator, World Salmon Council

850-321-4993

PO Box 80311

Portland, OR 97280