Welty
Environmental Center
How
You Can Help
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Volunteers
are needed for
- publicity/marketing assistance
- school programs
and special programs
- educational displays
- maintenance around the Center (weeding, trimming, planting)
- weekly cleaning inside the center
- trail maintenance
- odd jobs
- Spring-Summer 2008 volunteer opportunities
Possible
service projects
- tree/plant identification signs
- butterfly garden
- trail extension into North end of park
- extension of prairie patch
- educational display
- invasive species control
If you would enjoy helping the Welty Environmental Center with any projects,
you may fill out a Volunteer Interest Survey
Form (see form instructions).
(If the survey form does not download, you may print, fill in, and mail
a basic Volunteer Application Form.)
Contact the WEC at 608-361-1377.
WEC
wish list
- binoculars
- fishing poles
- fishing nets
- pond dipping nets
- HP 15X toner
- crayons, markers and paper
- window insulation kits
- campfire supplies (hot dog sticks, pudgie pie makers, etc)
- hip boots
Spring-Summer
2008 Volunteer Opportunities
April 25 - Evansville Energy Fair
@ Evansville Middle School, 4:30pm-8:30pm
Help is needed to staff Welty info table. 1 volunteer requested.
April 26 - BLOOM @ Rotary River Center,
9am-noon
Help is needed to staff Welty info table. 1 volunteer requested.
April 26 - Samuel's Recycling Earth
Day Celebration, 7:30-2pm
Help is needed to staff Welty info table. Volunteer can staff the table
for as many or little hours they can (10-2, 11-2, 8-10). 1-3 volunteers
requested.
April 26 - FREC Earth Day Festival
@ Spencer Conservation Area in Belvidere, 1pm-4pm
Help is needed to staff Welty info table. 1 volunteer requested.
DATE TBA - Help needed to put up
the large tent for the Rendezvous. Help is needed to set out posts, pound
in posts, lift the tent, tie knots, and more! Help will also be needed
to take the tent down after the Rendezvous. If you can help, let me know
and I will let you know the specific date and time the tent will be put
up.
May 1 - Jackson Elementary, 2nd grade,
60 students, 9am-2:30pm
Help is needed to staff stations for program. Program is on water and
soil. Volunteers will assist and lead students through the water cycle,
what is soil activity, and/or F.T. Shrew story activity. No previous experience
required. Volunteers will need to attend a short training on all that
is required to lead a station either the morning or days before the program.
Minimum 2 volunteers required.
May 2 - Lincoln Elementary, 2nd grade,
75 students, 9am-2:30pm
This is the same exact program as May 1st. Once again help is needed to
staff stations for program. Program is on water and soil. Volunteers will
assist and lead students through the water cycle, what is soil activity,
and/or F.T. Shrew story activity. No previous experience required. Volunteers
will need to attend a short training on all that is required to lead a
station either the morning or days before the program. Minimum 2 volunteers
required.
May 3 - Welty Nature Rendezvous -
8:30am-4pm
Volunteers needed to assist with many activities for Welty's annual Nature
Rendezvous festival.
* Volunteers needed to help set-up tents, tables, and chairs before the
event and take down after the event (7:30am-9:30am and 4:00pm-5:00pm).
* Volunteers needed to staff kid's activity area (10am-4pm, 2 hours shifts).
* Volunteers needed to staff breakfast area (7:30am-10am).
* Volunteers needed to introduce speakers (10am-4pm, 2 hour shifts)
* Volunteers needed to staff farm tours (10:30, 12:30, and 2:30)
* Volunteers needed to assist with silent auction (10am-4pm)
* Volunteers needed to survey festival visitors (10am-4pm, 2 hours shifts)
May 7-23 - 5th Grade Ecology Trips
- 8:30am-10:30am or 12:30pm-2:30pm
5th graders from the School District of Beloit will take part in the ecology
trips with high school students as their guides. 1 volunteer needed for
each program to assist with guiding student groups as they complete their
water and soil studies.
May 28 - Milton West Elementary,
3rd grade, 60 students, 9:30-1pm
Volunteers are needed to assist and lead stations for soil program. This
program is very similar to the programs on May 1 and 2. There will be
3 stations each focusing on soil; how it is made, soil as a habitat, and
conservation of soil. Volunteers will need to attend a short training
on all that is required to lead a station either the morning or days before
the program. Minimum 2 volunteers needed.
May 30 - Our Redeemer Lutheran School,
3rd grade, 20 students, 9am-2pm
Volunteer needed to assist with pond program. Volunteer will assist and
help lead the students in the program. 1 volunteer requested. No experience
required. Volunteer will need to arrive early for a quick training.
June 3 - First Lutheran Preschool,
preschoolers, 20 students, 10am-11:30am
Volunteer needed to help with a pond walk for preschoolers. Volunteer
will assist with the pond walk by showing students various items along
the walk. 1 volunteer needed.
June 4 - St. Paul's Lutheran
School, preschoolers, 20 students, 10am-11:30am
Volunteer needed to help with a pond walk for preschoolers. Volunteer
will assist with the pond walk by showing students various items along
the walk. 1 volunteer needed.
June 4 - St. Paul's Lutheran School,
preschoolers, 20 students, 12:30pm-2pm
Volunteer needed to help with a pond walk for preschoolers. Volunteer
will assist with the pond walk by showing students various items along
the walk. 1 volunteer needed.
June 5 - Robinson Elementary, 5th
graders, 24 students, 9am-2:30pm
Volunteer needed to assist program on ponds and food webs. Volunteer will
need to attend training the day of or before the program. 1 volunteer
requested.
June 11 - Whitewater Elementary School,
5th graders, 60 students, 9am-12pm
Volunteers needed to lead 5th graders through water program. Volunteers
will lead stations such as water cycle, enviroscape, and river of words
station. Volunteers will need to attend a training the day of or before
the program. Minimum 2 volunteers requested.
For
more information, contact
Tanya Zastrow, Program Director
608-361-1377
info@weltycenter.org
Welty
Environmental Center
8606 County Road H
Beloit, Wisconsin 53511
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