Teachers Earn Clock Hours

The numerous educational presentations at the festival are now available for clock hours.  The presentations are lead by experts in their fields, including geology, cultural history, habitats and wildlife of the Columbia Basin.  

A maximum of 10 possible clock hours can be earned at the event on Friday, March 28th and Saturday, March 29th.  Clock hours are $2 per hour payable to ESD 123.  

You will need to pay for General Admission fee into the Festival which is $7 per person.  The Friday night lecture is for 1 hour and is free, you only pay for the clock hour.  If you participate for the 2 hours of clock hours available at the Banquet Saturday night you will need to pay $25 plus you clock hours.  

Packets will be available to you at the Festival.  For questions please contact naomi@sherer.org by email with questions. 

Here are the clock hours you can earn:

Please send this program agenda with the marked presentations along with the clock hour form (white page, keep yellow for your records), program evaluation and appropriate fee made payable to ESD #123, Attn: Gloria Cartagena, 3918 W. Court, Pasco, WA 99301  

FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2008

8:15-9:15 PM
Flight of the Cranes    (Gibilisco)    _______

SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 2008

10:00-11:00 AM (Pick one to attend)
Missoula Floods and the Channeled Scablands    (Cunderla)    ______
Shrub-steppe                                                       (Mann)        ______
Taking Wing                                                        (Webster)    ______
Crane-ology 101                                                (Bouffard)    ______
Crane Festival Photography Workshop                (Pieper)    ______

11:00-12:00 (Pick one to attend)
Burrowing Owls of Eastern Washington                (Livingston)    ______
Bats Life in the Dark Lecture                                (Hedges)        ______
Getting a Buzz Going About Biodiversity                (Warner)       ______
The Long-billed Curlew                                        (Newsome)    ______
Forgotten Trails                                                    (Anglin)         ______

12:00-1:00 (Pick one to attend)
Living with Rattlesnakes                                        (Beck)          ______
Wetland Functions                                                (Mann)        ______
Blackbirds of the Potholes                                    (Orians)        ______
The Sandhill Crane of Washington State                (Stocking)    ______
Mosses and Liverworts                                        (Harpel)        ______

1:00-2:00 (Pick one to attend)
Heavenly Birds                                                    (Gibilisco)      ______
Beginning Birding or What Bird is That?                (Bell)            ______
Birds, Bats and Blades                                        (Denny)         ______
Grouse and Spouse                           (Schroeder & Robb)        ______
What do we know about Ground Squirrels?        (Sherman)        ______

2:00-3:00 (Pick one to attend)
How to choose and use the right Optics for you    (Danzenbaker)    ______
Insects for Kids                                                    (Hubbs)             ______
Burrowing Owls Use Burrows                                (Reep)            ______
Travels with Cranes of NE China and E Russia        (Bouffard)        ______
Penguins as Global Sentinels                                    (Boersma)        ______

3:00-4:00 (Pick one to attend)
Raptors of the Pacific NW                             (WSU Raptor Club)    ______
Are Gray Whales Ecosystem Sentinels?        (Moore)                        ______
Grouse and Spouse                                     (Schroeder & Robb)      ______
Shrub-steppe Birds and their habitats            (Stepniewski)                ______
Fish Stories from the Upper Columbia        (Bevis)                            ______

4:00-5:00 (Pick one to attend)
Pygmy Rabbits                                                (Meisel)                    ______
Beneficial Insects of the Shrub-steppe            (Gillespie)                  ______
Sex, Lies and Videotape                                (Webster)                ______
The Sandhill Cranes of Washington State        (Stocking)                ______
Audubon WA Important Bird Area Program    (McIvor)                ______

7:30-9:30 (Banquet)
Owls of Eastern Washington                        (Denny)            ______

TOTAL HOURS EARNED _______

AFFIDAVIT

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NAME                                                                            DATE