Educator Mini-Grants are now open!
Posted: 09/21/23
Do you have a water or natural resource-related project or program that you wish you could bring into the classroom to enhance your curriculum? How about a field trip or speaker to connect classwork to the “real world?” The Lower Minnesota River Watershed District has 10 grants of up to $500 each for educators to help cover costs of materials and programming. The grant application period for the 2023-2024 school year opens on September 18 and closes October 20.
Looking for inspiration? Here are some ideas for how the grants can be used for education:
• Waders
• Dip nets
• In-school presenter (ex. MN Zoo, Metropolitan Council)
• Field trip
• Bus transportation
• Petri dishes
• Microscope
• Magnifying lenses
• Rite in Rain notebooks
• Ph strips
• Chlorine test strips
• Chloride-ion selective elect rode
• Materials for water-quality experiments
• Materials for stormwater experiments
• Interactive learning tools
• Materials for aquatic species lessons
• Textbooks
• Storybooks featuring water and natural resources
