Education

Kawartha Conservation actively seeks to provide educational opportunities for youth within our watershed. Although we do not run a formal program, Kawartha Conservation offers:

• field trips to conservation areas
• volunteer opportunities at both conservation and demonstration sites
• guided tours of shoreline naturalization demonstration sites;
• planting opportunities for school children at demonstration sites;
• in-class visits from experts in GIS, shoreline naturalization, benthics
• Haliburton-Muskoka Children's Water Festival (a partnership of several organizations)

Haliburton-Muskoka Children's Water Festival

The third annual Haliburton-Muskoka Children's Water Festival was held near Minden, Ontario September 19, 20 and 21, 2007. Kawartha Conservation was pleased to be a partner in hosting this outdoor event that draws hundreds of primary school children from the Trillium Lakelands District School Board.

Children's water festivals are held in over a dozen locations in Ontario. Through a fun, interactive and educational experience, children learn the value of our water resources.

The Haliburton-Muskoka Children's Water Festival is free to participants and is made possible through the generous support of many community and provincial organizations.

For information about the Festival visit: http://www.ontariostewardship.org/ontarioStewardship/home/osHHSCIndex.asp .