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Natural Resource Management
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Career pathways span secondary and postsecondary education, align to employer needs and careers, and provide high-quality education, training, and support services for youth and adults.
In Delaware, career pathways begin in the public education system (K-12) through Career and Technical Education (CTE) pathways offered in charter, comprehensive, and technical school districts. These pathways continue through adult education, occupational training programs, and postsecondary programs that are administered by partnering state agencies, institutions of higher education, and other service providers.
Natural Resource Management
The Natural Resource Management pathway is designed to provide students with exposure to topics in conservation management and maintenance of natural resources. Students learn responsible stewardship practices of air, soil, water, land, fish, and wildlife resources for economic, recreation, and health purposes. Students utilize a variety of classroom and laboratory activities supplemented through supervised agricultural experiences and leadership programs and activities.
Students participating in this program will be prepared to enter into career fields that focus on one or more of the following areas: Natural Science, Microbiology, Water Resource Management, Wastewater Engineering, Environmental Protection, Soil & Plant Science, Environmental Engineering, Geoscience, and Precision Agriculture.
Sequence of Courses:
Introduction to Natural
Resources (INR)
Principles of Environmental
Science (PES)
AP Environmental Science
Early College Credit/Credentials:
AP Environmental Science
Pesticide Applicator
Certification – Private Applicators
Up to 3 College credits at Delaware State University
Up to 6 credits at Delaware Technical Community College
Work-Based Learning:
Job Shadowing
Mock Interviews
Resume Workshops
Mentorships
Forest and Conservation
Workers
Bachelor’s Degree
Associate's Degree
Certificate
Pathway Languages:
RELEVANT LANGUAGES
Wage Differential
Bilingual employees are compensated with a language differential of 5-20% more per hour than the base rate of a monolingual employee
NEW LANGUAGE, NEW LIFE
Where To Find The Languages
Chinese
Spanish
- Alexis I. du Pont High School
- Appoquinimink High School
- Brandywine High School
- Caesar Rodney High School
- Cape Henlopen High School
- Charter School of Wilmington
- Christiana High School
- Bryan Allen Stevenson School of Excellence
- Concord High School
- Conrad Schools of Science
- Delaware Academy of Public Safety & Secuirty
- Delaware Military Academy
- Delcastle Technical High School
- Design Thinking Academy
- Design-Lab High School
- Dover High School
- Early College High School
- Ferris School for Boys
- First State Military Academy
- Glasgow High School
- Howard Vo-Tech High School
- Hodgson Vo-Tech High School
- Indian River High School
- Lake Forest High School
- Laurel Senior High School
- Middletown High School
- Mount Pleasant High School
- Newark Charter School
- Newark High School
- Odessa High School
- POLYTECH High School
- Seaford Senior High School
- Smyrna High School
- Sussex Central High School
- Sussex Academy of Arts and Science
- Sussex County Vocational Technical School District
- Thomas McKean High School
- William Penn High School
- Woodbridge High School
- MOT Charter School
- Cab Calloway School of the Arts
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