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Where do I send my forms?

All forms listed on this page for Chicago River Schools Network and Adopt A River Schools, including annual repots, evaluations, and grant applications should be mailed, faxed, or emailed to Friends of the Chicago River to the attention of Mark Hauser, Education Coordinator.

River Monitoring Forms

Please fill out and turn in one of each of the following monitoring forms each time your school visits the Chicago River. The chemistry values should represent the average values found by all groups, and the macroinvertebrate survey should include all types macroinvertebrates found throughout the entire day.

Even when you do not do all three types of monitoring, please always make sure to always fill out the habitat assessment data sheet. The habitat information helps give context to your chemistry or macroinvertebrate data.

Water Chemistry Data Sheet (69k PDF)
Macroinvertebrate Data Sheet (243k PDF)
Habitat Assessment Data Sheet (33k PDF)

AARS Monitoring Forms (301k PDF) All three above forms together.

Q-value Analysis (490k PDF) …for chemical water quality assessment.

Annual Reports

Every year each teacher must turn in a Planning Document in the first half of the year (by Dec. 4, 2009) and a Service Learning Documentation Form at the end of the school year (by May 28, 2010). If you collaborate closely with another teacher or teachers at your school, turn in one form for all collaborating teachers. Just make sure to write all teachers’ names at the top of the page. Please use the following forms:

Planning Document for 2009-10 (one per school)
Service Learning Documentation Form (one per school)

Annual Evaluations

Every year each teacher must turn in a Teacher Evaluation (by May 28). In addition, one classroom of students from each school should fill out the Student Evaluations, both pre and post visit.

Teacher Evaluation

Teachers: Please complete the survey before May 28, 2010!
Click here to take survey, or download the AARS Teacher Survey 2009-10

Student Evaluations

• PRE-TRIP (To be completed in the beginning of the year - before the students’ first trip to the river)
Click Here to have your students complete the survey online, or
download the AARS Student Pre-trip Survey 2009-10 (64k PDF)

• POST-TRIP (To be completed after the students’ last trip to the river)
Click Here to have your students complete the survey online, or
download the AARS Student Post-trip Survey 2009-10 (95k PDF)

Small Grants Program

Thanks to a generous grant from the McDougal Foundation, each participating CPS high school in the Adopt A River School program is eligible to receive money for related expenses during the 2009-10 school year. Grants are awarded on a rolling basis. Fill out the Grant Application and send it to Mark Hauser at Friends of the Chicago River.