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 

Ready to apply? Find the application here.