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SECTION 1 <br />SECTION 2 <br />SECTION 4 <br />SECTION 5 <br />Education. Progra1 MS <br />SCHOOL PROGRAMS <br />VLAWMO staff provides water -focused activities for elementary, middle, <br />and high schools in the watershed. If a school has a stormwater best <br />management practice such as a raingarden on the grounds, this often <br />becomes a living, outdoor classroom. Students learn how to maintain the <br />raingarden,observe nature,work with topographic maps, and much more. <br />Activity examples <br />and education tools <br />for free rental can <br />be found on the <br />VLAWMO website at <br />vlawmo.org/students. <br />Left: Students at <br />Lakeaires Elementary <br />gather with Drippy <br />the VLAWMO mascot <br />after hearing a story <br />about local wildlife <br />and wetlands. <br />Right: Students at <br />Vadnais Heights <br />Elementary explore <br />the schoolyard with <br />bottles of water to <br />track the direction <br />of stormwater <br />runoff and assess <br />ground absorption. <br />PUBLIC WORKSHOPS <br />VLAWMO offers a raingarden workshop each Spring. Participants in the <br />raingarden workshop learned about the watershed, stormwater runoff, how <br />to build and maintain a raingarden, and got a head start with tools to select <br />plants and get funding assistance. <br />The native plant workshop is the most popular workshop for the second <br />year in a row. This workshop dug deep into plant identification, planting <br />plans and strategies, and how perennial vegetation is a valuable asset for <br />the watershed. <br />Right: Raingarden <br />workshop <br />participants <br />learn about the <br />watershed, how <br />raingardens work, <br />and calculated <br />runoff on their own <br />properties. <br />11 <br />