Cottonwood
   Soil and Water Conservation District

Educational Programs

Kindergarten

• Life in a Pond
  Puppet presentation focusing on a little beaver and the friends that he meets in a small pond.
   
  Coloring activity books are given to each participant.
  
  
• Coloring Contest
                          
  Coloring contest materials are given to each participating Kindergarten class with prizes awarded to top contest winners in each school.

First Grade

• Coloring Contest
                        
  Coloring contest materials are given to each participating First Grade class with prizes awarded to top contest winners in each school.

Second Grade

• Coloring Contest
                         
  Coloring contest materials are given to each participating Second Grade class with prizes awarded to top contest winners in each school.

Third Grade

• Water Program
  Event in conjunction with the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Windom High School Biology Class.
  
  This program will be started with the Windom School District and moved throughout the county.

Fourth Grade

• Arbor Day Presentation
  Presentation by Dave Bucklin
  
  Classes are given the opportunity to plant a tree for their class on school grounds.

• Fourth Grade Water Festival                      March 10, 2010
  Event focusing on Water with large and small presentations.
  
  This event is sponsored by the counties of Brown, Nicollet and Cottonwood and held during the month of March at the North Mankato Technical College and offered to all schools in the participating counties.

• Fourth Grade Water Education Day           May 11, 2010
  Local event focusing on Water usage and pollution.
  
  This event is a collaborative effort sponsored by the Red Rock Rural Water System, the Cottonwood SWCD, the Cottonwood County Environmental Office, University of Minnesota Extension- Cottonwood County and the cities of Jeffers, Mt. Lake, Storden, Westbrook, and Windom. This event is held during the month of May at Shalom Hill Farm and is offered to all schools in Cottonwood county.

 

 

Fifth Grade

• Poster Contest
  
  Poster materials including poster board, markers and stencils are provided to the county fifth graders and judged based on interpretation of the yearly theme and artwork.  Cash prizes are given to winners from each school.

• Fifth Grade Conservation Day
  Environmental day at a park. 
  
  This year Windom Public, Jackson Public, Mountain Lake Public and Christian Schools came together at Tegels Park (Windom) to experience six learning stations including: Wildlife, Fisheries, Birds, Water Quality, Trees and Reptiles.  Windom Area High School FFA Officers led integration mixers during the noon break.
  
  The Red Rock Ridge Integration Collaborative provided busing and presenters for the event and also provided students and presenters with a sack lunch.

 

 

 

                            5th Grade Conservation Day 2008

Sixth Grade

• Sixth Grade Environmental Fair
  Environmental fair hosted by the Area V Southwest MN Association of Conservation District Employees. 
  
  This event travels throughout the fourteen county area in Southwestern Minnesota.  Large group presentations are given by Science Museum, Minnesota Zoo, Prairie Ecology Bus, and the Remarkable Reptiles.  Small presentations are given on topics including: Trees, Prairie, Stormwater, Fisheries, Wildlife, Waterfowl, Web of Life, Recycling, Watersheds and Soils.

 

     Additional Education Programs