1999 Tami Plein Receives Outstanding Conservation Teacher Award
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1999 Tami Plein Receives Outstanding Conservation Teacher Award
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West Burlington Jr/iSr High School Science Teacher Tam1 Ple1n received an award for Outstanding Science Teacher Grades 7-12 during the 1999 Conservation Districts of Iowa 53rd Annual Conference. The purpose of the award is to recognize outstanding teachers in creating public awareness of the need to safeguard our heritage of natural and human resources. The award is sponsored by the Conservation Districts of Iowa, State Soil Conservation Committee, Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, Iowa Conservation Education Council Natural Resource Conservation Service, and the Des Moines Register. The Des Moines County Soil and Water Conservation District nominated Tami for this award for many reasons, including her techniques of teaching conservation education bu using concepts tied to students' daily routines. She also founded the River watchers Club and gets her students involved with Flint Creek water quality testing. In the photograph with Tami are Jerry Perkins, Des Moines Register Farm Editor on the very left and Duane Toomsen, of the Iowa Conservation Education Council, is to the right of Tami. The unidentified man standing been Duane and Tami may be Lee Schwerdtfeger
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Des Moines County Soil and Water Conservation District
Publisher
State Library of Iowa
Date
1999
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Des Moines County Soil and Water Conservation District of Iowa. For questions about copyright, contact the State Library of Iowa at http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org
Des Moines County Soil & Water Conservation District 54th Annual Report
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