TRESTE Blackfeet Community College Third year plan 200708

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TRESTEBlackfeet Community CollegeThird year
plan 2007-08
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Plan for year three

• Learn to use GPS
• Create Maps
• Include things like satellite, aerocam,
  surface temperature into the maps

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Plan for year three

• Continue to GPS cultural sites
• Use GPS for water quality sampling sites
• Incorporate remote sensing into curriculum
• Teaching Boxes

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Nitawahsin-nanni Geography Project
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Intro to GPS Training

• Offered March 10 -12, 2008
• 14 Participants BCC faculty staff
• This professional development training was
  offered for individuals who are involved in the
  STEM areas field related instruction.

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Geographical Information Systems / Global
Positioning System
Vo-Ed One (1) Year
Certificate The One-year Geographical Information
Systems (GIS) / Global Positioning System (GPS)
program is designed to provide students with the
comprehensive background, skills and application
to make their transition into the workforce or to
pursue further studies in these fields. In
addition, this program will provide students with
the necessary practical application of each of
these fields to enter directly into the workforce
or create business opportunities for private
enterprise. This curriculum is designed to
provide the technologies to identify and
digitally preserve the sacred or culturally
sensitive locations throughout the Blackfeet
Reservation. GIS/GPS Course Requirements Descripti
on

Semester Total Core 1
3 Credits COS101 Introduction to
Computers
F
3 Total Core 1 Requirements


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Core 2
Blackfeet Studies 3 Credits BLS160
Blackfeet Cultural Geography
S
3 Total Core 2
Requirements

3 Core 3
English 3 Credits ENG109 Written
Communication I
F
3 Total Core 3 Requirements


3 Core 10 Natural Resources
2 Credits NAT110 Ohm-Skapii Pikunii (Southern
Blackfeet) Land Issues F
2 Total Core 10
Requirements

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Total Vo-Ed Core Requirements

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Geographical Information Systems 10
Credits GIS113 Introduction to Geographical
Information Systems
F 3 GIS114
Introduction to GIS Project Planning
S
3 GIS223 Applied GIS

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3 GIS 293 Applied GIS Lab

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1 Total Core Requirements


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Global Positioning System 10 Credits GPS116
Introduction to Global Positioning System
F
3 GPS118 Introduction to
Data Dictionaries
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3 GPS226 Applied GPS

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3 GPS 296 Applied GPS LAB

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1 Total Core Requirements


10 Total Core 1, 2, 3, 10 Requirements


11 Total GIS/GPS Core Requirements

20 Total
Credits Required to Graduate

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Plan for year three

• Get more students involved with GIS/GPS
• Have more faculty involvement

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Water Quality Soil Plant Nutrient Test Lab

• Lab is in the process of being completed to be
  used for surface water testing.
• The water lab is being used across the
  curriculum.
• Eventually will need to be state certified
• Blackfeet EPA will send us their samples to be
  tested
• Ranchers farmers in Glacier County
  surrounding counties will be able to send water
  time sensitive tests. Required by NRCS FSA

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Water Quality Soil Plant Nutrient Test Lab

• Eventually will need to be state
  certified-continued
• Ranchers farmers will be able to send in soil
  water samples. Some are time sensitive and have
  to send them to Bozeman. Important to have a lab
  close by.
• Well water tested found several area wells to
  be positive for contaminates. Positive Coliform
  Tests
• Challenges Need training in plant nutrient
  testing.

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Large River Eco-systems

• This began last month is a 5 year program.
• Create baseline data for Global warming on two
  major rivers on the reservation.
• Checking the health of these two eco-systems
• Test at the source, middle where they flow into
  the Marias.
• Students will GPS these sites
• Interns for the Piita Grant will be doing the
  studies on these two rivers.
• Students will be generating GIS maps of these
  sites.

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Science as Inquiry
Develop an awareness that observations and
understandings of nature and ecological
relationships traditionally formed an essential
base of knowledge among American Indian cultures.
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Inquiry Based Education

• All of the Science courses and new text books
  inquiry based applications
• All the courses start with Case Studies. Students
  were enthused about the case studies used in the
  course curriculum.
• Culturally Related Activities or information is
  integrated into our lessons.

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Teaching Boxes

• Environmental Science, Ecology, Biology,
  Microbiology, Water Resources, Wildlife, Soils,
  Forestry
• Development of multiple disciplinary teaching
  boxes
• Binders of resources needed or available for the
  instructor.
• Equipment or instruments needed for lessons
• Tribal knowledge or culturally relevant materials
  will be included.

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Monitoring weather station
Blackfeet Community College Campus 2006-07
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GPS - Cultural Sites
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Additional Info

• Information from the Large River Eco-systems
  cultural sites will be added to the info already
  gathered previously.

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Hope you enjoyed your visit to Blackfeet Country.
Terry Tatsey Lea Whitford Cindy Doore