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Yampatika – Environmental Literacy Program

January 10, 2017 By Steamboat Education Fund

Funding enabled Yampatika Environmental Literacy Program to offer free programming to every kindergarten through fifth-grade student with a goal of increasing environmental literacy. Students increased short-term knowledge of topics at each grade level and improved awareness of local, natural environment. Students also exhibited an increase in positive attitudes towards environmental issues and understanding the opinions of others.

Yampatika has developed a model program which reflects movements within ALL education to promote 21st century skills, like: critical thinking, collaboration, and connection with community and the natural environment. Yampatika’s Environmental Literacy Program supports educators in teaching common core curriculum and improving student performance overall.

Environmental Literacy Program by grade-level, Adaptations, Animals, Aquatic Wild, Archaeology, Architecture, Bats, Bears, Beavers, Birds, Botany, Geology, Fire, Flying Wild, Food Chain, Fossils, Habitats, Human Impact, Mapping, Owls, Pine Beetle, Plants, Pollution, Project Learning Tree, Project Wild, Rocks & Minerals, Senses, Skulls, Tracking, Water Ecology, Water Quality, Watersheds, Wildflowers, Wildlife; and more.

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    January 27 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
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    February 8
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    March 3 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

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The Steamboat Springs Education Fund (SSEF) is a nonprofit, independent corporation that administers the proceeds of the half-cent sales tax—five cents on a $10 purchase. The half-cent city sales tax was originally approved by Steamboat voters in 1993 to fund “public K-12 educational purposes.” The tax was extended by voter approval in three subsequent elections. In 2009, voters extended the tax and expanded the purpose to share a portion of the proceeds of the tax with other Routt County public schools. Since 1993, more than $67M has been granted directly for public K-12 education in Routt County.

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