Tentative Two-day Conference Schedule

Day 1
7:30 - 8:30am  -  Pass out schedules, name tags and journals
8:30 - 9:00am - Introduction to Children in the Stream staff, goals, schedules and to participants
9 - 10:30am Morning Session 1A: Conference room
    Indoor group activity:
    Pass out fly fishing literature and equipment (fly fishing rod and reel outfit)
    Presentation on brief history of fly fishing
    Introduction to fly fishing equipment: waders, boots, rod, reel, fly line, tippet, and flies
10:30 - 11:15am Morning Session 1B: Conference room
    Indoor group activity:
    Fly Fishing and Science Curriculum:
    Basic entomology (seining and basic insect ID )
    Invertebrates as biotic indicator of water quality
11:15am - 12:30pm Morning Session 1C: Conference room
    Indoor group activity:
    Introduction to Fly Tying

12:30 - 1:30pm - Lunch Break- on your own
















1:30 - 3:00pm Afternoon Session IA : Local Stream or Pond
    Outdoor group activity:
    Observe and Analyze Natural Setting - Watershed dynamics and identification; geology of streams and                                              shorelines, fish location as per dissolved oxygen, stream bed for spawning, tree canopy and                                                effects on sedimentation, entomology and fish.
    Stream Biology- document temperature of stream at different depths and locations and draw location                                                 of seining activity in slow and fast water and location of insects collected.
3:00 - 3:15pm Break / Travel to Fishing Spot if Needed
3:15 - 5:00pm  Afternoon Session 1B : Local Stream or Pond
    Outdoor group activity:
    Fishing Introduction to Casting: Roll Cast, Overhead Cast and Mending (both hands)
5:00-6:00pm
    Community Outreach around Fly Fishing: Waterway clean-up; Assessing economic impact; Land ethic:
                             Integration   of place.
    Starting a school or community program, integrating material into school curriculum, developing                                          program curriculum, liability, funding

 

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Day 2
Meet at State University of New York at Fredonia, NY - E114  Thompson 
8:00 - 8:30am - Review/Preview: Responses to work done the previous day/Preview of the day’s schedule and focus
8:30 - 10:15am Morning Session 2A: Conference room
     Indoor group activity:
      Biology, examine vials, etc. (Water monitoring including probeware and GIS)
10:15 - 11:00am  Morning Session 2B : Galleries
       Break/Tour of RTPI Exhibitions
11:00am - 12:30pm Morning Session 2C : Conference room
    Indoor group activity:
    Basic fly tying session

12:30 - 1:30pm - Lunch Break and Travel to Alberto Rey's Studio in Fredonia, NY

1:30 - 2:30pm  Afternoon Session 3A: Artist’s Studio, 211 Chestnut Street, Fredonia, NY
    Outdoor group activity:
    Trip to Alberto Rey, naturalist/artist, studio - discuss artwork and journals and integration of                                          environment issues into artwork (www.albertorey.com).
2:30 - 3:30pm  Afternoon Session 3B: Canadaway Creek
    Outdoor group activity:
    Go to Canadaway Creek to draw and write in journals.

3:30 - 4:30pm  Afternoon Session 2A: Local Stream or Pond
    Outdoor group activity:
    Outdoor lab for science/physics of casting, biology, examine vials, etc. 
    (Water monitoring including probeware and GIS)
    Discuss “Water”:
        Water as a resource;
        Water/impacts to stream development;
        Water in support of biological community; fish habitat (stream biology, draw location and document water)  
        temperature at different depths and currents
4:30-6:00 Afternoon Session 2B : Local Stream or Pond
    Outdoor group activity:
    Fishing - Review roll cast and introduce overhead cast

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