June 23-25, 2025 from 9 am-3 pm

• Grade K-5 Teachers

• $75

• 18 CEUs available

• Breakfast and lunch are provided each day

With its 10,000+ lakes and variety of wetlands, Minnesota is a paradise for freshwater turtles and many other wetland wildlife species. There are nine species of freshwater turtles that call Minnesota home, but unfortunately, freshwater turtles and their wetland ecosystems today face a variety of threats that are putting their future in Minnesota at risk.

Join Minnesota Zoo naturalists to find out how to guide your students outdoors in exploring their local wetland and take on a real conservation action project centered on helping MN freshwater turtles and wetland wildlife, engaging their community, raise Awareness, and preserve their wetland.

In this training, teachers will participate in hands on activities focused on wetland and turtle conservation science, how to lead students outdoors, using nature journaling as a tool to explore and gather data about wetland phenomena, and guiding a student-driven culminating conservation project near school. Teachers will also get to hear about the conservation efforts that are being taken to save wetland species from the Minnesota Zoo’s Turtle and Mussel Conservation Biologists. All workshop participants will be receive support from Zoo naturalists throughout the school year as needed and will be given access to a collection of digital wetland and turtle education resources.