Ideas for Field Trips to Utah Wetlands

Tracy Aviary
http://www.tracyaviary.org/

Tracy Aviary Wetland Restoration Field Trips- WEST
http://www.earth.utah.edu/west/fieldtrips/TracyAviary_FT

Great Salt Lake Field Trip- WEST
http://www.earth.utah.edu/west/fieldtrips/GSL

Antelope Island
http://www.stateparks.utah.gov/park/index.php?id=AISP ,
or contact FOGSL for Lakeside Learning Field trips at Antelope Island
http://www.fogsl.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=23

Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area
http://wildlife.utah.gov/habitat/farmington_bay.php

Silver Lake, Big Cottonwood Canyon
http://climb-utah.com/WM/silver.htm

The Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve
http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/utah/preserves/art5834.html


Wetland Field Trip Activities (all activities designed for the WEST Tracy Aviary Wetland Restoration Project, some can be adapted for use in other locations)

Aquatic Invertebrate sampling
http://www.earth.utah.edu/west/k12/Biology/Aviary/AquaticInvertCollectWP

Water quality testing
http://www.earth.utah.edu/west/k12/Biology/Aviary/WaterQualTestInsWP

Plant collection and identification:
http://www.earth.utah.edu/west/k12/Biology/Aviary/PlantCollectionWP

Bird migration lesson and mapping activity
http://www.earth.utah.edu/west/k12/Biology/Aviary/ArgentinaActivityWP


Great Salt Lake Field trip Activities

WEST’s GSL field trip lesson plans
http://www.earth.utah.edu/west/fieldtrips/GSL

FoGSL Lakeside Learning Activities
http://www.fogsl.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=15


Utah Wetland Lesson Plans and Activities for the Classroom

Create a Utah wetland in the classroom:
http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=2484

Bird migration and wetland activity:
http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=9982

pH and brine shrimp lesson
http://www.westminstercollege.edu/education_gslp/brine_shrimp_ph_levels.pdf


Resources for Educators

EPA information about wetlands
http://www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands/

Friends of the Great Salt Lake Home:
http://www.xmission.com/~fogsl/

Utah Wetlands Interpretive Network (UWIN):
http://www.utahwetlands.org

Utah Society for Environmental Education (USEE):
http://www.usee.org/

Project WET International Foundation:
http://www.projectwet.org/

Utah’s Wonderful Wetlands Educator Training: http://www.wildlife.utah.gov/wetlandsed/

The Living Planet Aquarium Outreach:
http://www.thelivingplanet.com/LPA/learn_with_us.html

Project Learning Tree, Environmental Education program designed by the American Forest Foundation:
http://www.plt.org/

Project WILD, Utah Division of Wildlife interdisciplinary conservation education program emphasizing wildlife:
http://www.wildlife.utah.gov/projectwild/    

Utah Education Network, Wetland information
http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/tourFames.cgi?tour_id=13057

Keep it Pure, Salt Lake City Department of Public Utilities outreach, creators of the Wasatch Front Watershed 4th Grade Activity Guide
http://www.slcgov.com/utilities/watershed/default.htm