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The TMC Educational Resource
The TMC is developing this educational resource to assist people, students, and instructors in learning about their environment. This is the begining. By learning about their environment, they will become more familiar with it and learn to care about it. However, It is not enough to just teach them to care … we must teach them how they can make a difference. At the Tributary Mill Conservancy we are teaching children (as well as their parents and teachers) to be informed and understand their environment and feel empowered as individuals to make positive changes. Our goal is to show children a slice-of-life in their own backyard, a slice that in fact, has global significance. The Atlantic Salmon Restoration Project, as an example, will provide classrooms with a rarely seen look about the work going on in one small tributary of the Connecticut River that has far reaching effects on preventing the extinction of a species. As our children grow to understand the importance of their roles as stewards of this planet they will be motivated to protect and conserve our natural resources and appreciate the impact they can make for this and future generations – and it can start in their own backyard. |
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