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Bosque Education Guide Workshop (Community Event)
January 17 @ 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
$25The Bosque Education Guide Workshop
Saturday, January 17, 2026
9 a.m. – 4: 30 p.m. Location: Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge
The Bosque Education Guide is an interdisciplinary curriculum about the Middle Rio Grande Valley ecosystem. The curriculum provides classroom-based and field activities for students grades K-12. For the central activity, students construct a model of the Middle Rio Grande and then manipulate the paper and cloth pieces to demonstrate human impacts over the last two hundred years. Later, they “restore” the ecosystem. Newly updated activities include Next Generation Science Standards/NM STEM Ready! Science Standards.
The curriculum is downloadable on the website:
http://www.nmnaturalhistory.org/educational-resources/sections/bosque-education-guide
Features of the Bosque Education Guide curriculum
- Over 700 pages of K-12 activities; many now NM STEM Ready!/NGSS aligned
- Spanish materials available for download
- Background and appendices for teachers
- Suggestions for service learning in the bosque
- Topics include:
- Field Activities
- The geology of the valley, surface and groundwater
- Demands on the river’s water budget
- Flora & fauna of the valley
- Natural history & human influence
- Fire in the bosque
- Energy and matter in ecosystems
- Bird migration
Workshop information/Registration
https://www.nmnaturalhistory.org/events/bosque-education-guide-workshop-3
Workshop activities will occur indoors and outdoors. Participants should dress in comfortable clothing for the weather that day, warm jacket, good walking shoes, and hat. Bring a sack lunch and water bottle.
Workshop fee: $25 includes curriculum and binder (700+ pages), laminated kit, expert facilitator guides and refreshments.
Registration: https://my.nmculture.org/49797/52654:
Refund Policy: Registration is refundable up to one-week prior to the workshop.
Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge is located at 7851 2nd St SW, Albuquerque 87105.
Five miles south of downtown. https://www.fws.gov/refuge/valle-de-oro
Questions: Tish Morris– tish.morris11ATgmail.com; Sivan Gordon-Buxbaum at RGNC 505-344-7240; Sivan.Buxbaum@emnrd.nm.gov; Dakota Dominguez at VdO 505-328-9876; dakota_dominguez@fws.gov