Director of Education, Della Barbato led a Girls Summer Camp during the week of June 27. It was facilitated with NPAT partners from UHCL’s Environmental Institute of Houston. Ten high-school aged girls from Deer Park, Dickinson, Clear Creek and Houston attended the camp. .The camp sought to address this lack Read more…
From the HNPAT March Newsletter (subscribe to the monthly newsletter at http://eepurl.com/79rdz ): Native Prairie Association of Texas’ (NPAT’s) first Party for the Prairie, a luncheon on March 7, 2020 at Safari Texas Ranch to raise funds to sustain the Lawther – Deer Park Prairie Education Program, was a Texas-size Read more…
HOSTED BY NATIVE PRAIRIES ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS You are cordially invited to join us in honoring the conservation work of Susan and Peter Conaty at Party for the Prairie! Saturday March 7, 2020 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Safari Texas Ranch, Palm Pavilion 11627 FM 1464, Richmond, TX 77407 Read more…
We are excited to announce that Shell has funded the following education programs: Thank you Shell Deer Park! Student Prairie Programs $ 10,000.00 Teacher Education Workshops $10,000.00 Adult Education Programs $ 5,000.00 Prairie Field Trips $ 15,000.00 Girls Summer Camp $ 15,000.00 We are still looking for funding for the Read more…
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS North American Prairie Conference June 5 – Della Barbato, Director of Education, co-facilitated an education workshop at the NAPC with Jaime Gonzales titled Prairie 101 – Teaching City-Slickers about Prairies through School Lessons, Pocket Prairies, Storytelling and Technology. I asked Rhonda Burrow from Katy High School to discuss Read more…
2019 Prairie 201 Teacher Workshop
Check out a new section of this website. NPAT’s Education Director Della Barbato will be blogging up-to-date news of the Deer Park Prairie Education Program in our new DPP Education News section. This section can also be accessed by hovering over the top menu “Shell Funds DPP Education” tab. Then Read more…
As part of the North American Prairie Conference, the Native Prairies Association of Texas (NPAT) with supported from Shell is sponsoring a Prairie Art Contest for students from grades 6-12. If interested, please contact [email protected] Della is NPAT’s Education Director.