As part of Watershed’s middle school Mustangs & the American West Expedition course, students across grades 6-8 spent their week of Extended Fieldwork exploring wild horse management, conservation, and public lands. TJ Holmes of Spring Creek Basin Mustangs captured the eighth graders’ experience in a wonderful blog post featuring incredible photos and reflections on the students’ curiosity, thoughtful questions, and engagement throughout the visit. Read the full post below!
Learning Civics by Living It: Inside This Semester’s New Civic Course
Horsepower!
How can we manage the challenges of the growing wild horse population in Colorado? With this essential question in mind, middle school students in the Horse Power Expedition course headed off to southwestern Colorado for a week of field work to explore firsthand the complexities of managing the wild horses that roam in the region.
Extended Fieldwork with the Borders & Immigration Expedition Course
Extended Course Travel At Watershed This Spring
Into the Field: expedition course extensions
Nature of Good & Evil Course Heads into the Field
Diving Deep Into Ancestral Puebloan Pottery
The Ceramics Through the Ages course traveled to Blanding, Utah to participate in the Southwest Kiln Conference. This annual gathering brings together people at the forefront of studying the historic ceramics of the US Southwest and replicating the work as a way to better understand the process used by ancient potters.
