By: Heidi Satter, Yolo Basin Foundation
Are you looking for opportunities to spend time in nature, learn more about local wetlands, and share your enthusiasm, expertise, and knowledge with school students? Joining the Discover the Flyway docent team may be for you!
Yolo Basin Foundation’s Discover the Flyway is seeking dedicated volunteers to become docents and help inspire young minds through environmental education. Docents bring science and social science to life in the wetlands, and right now: new docents are needed to meet the demand for this popular K-12 field trip program.
Since 1997, more than 85-thousand students from both public and private schools in the Sacramento region have experienced a Discover the Flyway field trip.
A partnership between Yolo Basin Foundation and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Discover the Flyway is an environmental education program for K-12th grade students based on California’s education standards. Yolo Basin Foundation offers these field trips with the goal of providing children a meaningful outdoor experience that will instill an appreciation for the wetlands and wildlife of the Central Valley, and inspire the next generation of naturalists, biologists, historians, and scientists.
Prior experience teaching outdoor education is not required to become a docent. Everything you need to know about being a docent for Discover the Flyway will be covered during training.
For program details, visit www.yolobasin.org/schoolprograms. To sign up or to learn more, email volunteer@yolobasin.org. Docent training is set for October 7, 8, 9, 14 and 16 from 9a—12:30p.
Photo caption: Students on a recent Discover the Flyway field trip. Photo credit: David Kalb.
