$500 MINI-GRANT APPLICATION for K-12 CLASSROOM TEACHERS

STRENGTHENING COLORADO’S WATER & FOREST EDUCATION CONNECTIONS
$500 MINI-GRANT APPLICATION for K-12 CLASSROOM TEACHERS

Do your students understand the connection between
healthy forests and healthy water?

Funding is available from the Colorado State Forest Service and the US Forest Service to support education that makes the connection between forest conditions and water quality/quantity by getting kids out in nature for hands-on, inquiry-based environmental learning!

Ten $500 mini-grants will be awarded to Colorado K-12 classroom teachers to enhance forest and watershed education experiences for their students.

Eligible teachers must have attended a forest or watershed workshop, class, or training in the past three years, such as those listed on page 2 of this application.*

Please submit your completed online application by 5:00pm on MONDAY, APRIL 4, 2011 at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/S7PW6TS

Selected applicants will be notified via email by MONDAY, APRIL 18, 2011.

Checks will be made out to and mailed to your school.

You must spend the awarded grant funds by SEPTEMBER 30, 2011.