The Watercourse and Project WET Publications and Products
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PROJECT WET (Water Education for Teachers)
The Project WET Curriculum and Activity Guide
A collection of more than ninety broad-based water resource activities is available to classroom teachers, resource
managers, park rangers, museum educators and others who attend training
workshops provided by Project WET coordinators. This Guide covers seven
major topic areas: 1) Water has unique physical and chemical
characteristics. 2) Water is essential for all life to exist. 3) Water
connects all Earth systems. 4) Water is a natural resource. 5) Water
resources are managed. 6) Water resources exist within social and economic
settings. 7) Water resources exist within historical and cultural contexts.
The Guide is only available through training workshops provided by state
Project WET Coordinators.
For more information, contact the national
headquarters at 406-994-5392 or by email: projectwet@montana.edu
Water Conservation
Conserve Water Educator’s Guide
Developed for middle and high school educators, this module provides background material, case
studies, and activities on the topic of water conservation. Case studies
are based on water conservation scenarios ranging from a rancher in west
Texas to an ice cream factory in Massachusetts, and from water’s role on the
space shuttle to the survival of a sailor adrift the Atlantic. These
real-life examples encourage students to use decision-making skills to work
through issues related to water use and conservation. Illustrations,
photographs, charts, and a selection of activities complement the case
studies.
Water Management
Watershed Management Educators Guide
(Available Soon!) This Guide
will be for educators and resource manager’s use in teaching about important
watershed management topics (i.e., basic water concepts; hydrology; water
users; issues identification, analysis, and discussion; management options
and strategies; and planning). Each topic will be addressed in specific
activities. These activities will include background information, creative
teaching methods, and ideas for use with students in grades six through
twelve.
KIDS – Kids in Discovery Series
Activity Booklets
The Water Story
Published in cooperation with Wild Outdoor World (W.O.W), Philips Petroleum Company, National
Association of Conservation Districts (NACD), National Wetlands Conservation
Alliance and Project WET, this 16-page activity booklet is designed for
upper elementary and middle school aged students. In telling the story of
water, this resource provides young readers with a variety of creative,
hands-on activities, projects, games, a poster and valuable information
about water. This publication was honored for Distinguished Achievement in
Educational Publishing, EdPress Award Winner.
Celebrate Wetlands!
Published in cooperation with Wild Outdoor World (W.O.W.), this 16-page full-color activity booklet
is for upper elementary and middle school aged students. Through hands-on
investigations, games, intriguing articles, a poster, and other activities,
readers learn about the types and functions of wetlands; the plants,
animals, soil, and water found in wetlands; and about the language and
culture of the people who inhabited these special places.
Conserve Water
This colorful 16-page activity booklet designed for upper elementary and middle school aged
students was published in cooperation with the Wild Outdoor World (W.O.W.),
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation. Through engaging
graphics and text, students are challenged to participate in investigations
such as assembling a sun powered still or experimenting with catchment.
Activities invite students to “soak up” intriguing water facts; play a board
game to learn how water moves through their homes and how they can conserve
it; conduct a simple home water audit; and discover how a person’s latitude
can affect their attitude about water conservation. Conserve Water won the
Distinguished Achievement in Educational Publishing award from the
Association of Educational Publishers.
Fish & Fishing
Produced through a partnership with the Wild Outdoor World (W.O.W.), and in conjunction with
U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA- National Marine Fisheries Service, Office
of Habitat Conservation; Nebraska Game and Parks Commission; Arizona Game
and Fish Department; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; and the Future
Fisherman Foundation, Youth Education Office of American Sportfishing
Association. This full-color, 16-page activity booklet is intended for
upper elementary and middle school aged students. Included in the booklet
is the story of fish and fishing through hands-on activities such as
“Something Fishy,” “Fishing for Facts,” and “No Bones About It”; and stories
such as “Fish Stories,” “Hook, Line and Sinker,” “Count the Ways,” and “Fine
Kettle of Fish.”
Explore Oceans
Together with Wild Outdoor World (W.O.W.), and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA), the
Watercourse has published this 16-page, full-color activity booklet for
upper elementary and middle school aged students. This booklet contains
hands-on activities such as “Where in the Universe?”, “The Ocean Market,”
and “The Weather Maker, the Big Picture.” A board game entitled “Coastal
Connection,” demonstrates how water travels in a watershed and how it is
affected by all water users. Explore Oceans won the Distinguished
Achievement in Educational Publishing Award, from the Association of
Educational Publishers.
Discover Ground Water and Springs
Published in cooperation with the Perrier Group of America, this 16-page, full-color activity booklet
helps readers explore and discover information about ground water and
springs. Students identify underground rock formations in “Get the Ground
Water Picture”; learn how water suppliers locate, retrieve and deliver water
to communities; locate underground water by playing Ground Water-Gotcha,
learn about the importance of springs to past and present cultures; and cook
up a ground water confection.
Big Rivers
This 16-page booklet for students in grades 4-6 is published in conjunction with Wild Outdoor World
(W.O.W) magazine and the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of
Reclamation. Students explore big rivers and their watersheds in North
America, meet famous river explorers, calculate a river’s rate of flow,
discover how the river environment is unique, investigate the many ways that
rivers are important, and recognize the role of water managers in this fun,
hands-on activity booklet. Fully illustrated pages contain directions for
making a model of a watershed and a simple paddleboat.
Native Waters Along the Missouri
The Native Waters student activity booklet, geared toward upper elementary Native and Nonnative
American students, explores the Missouri River from Native American
perspectives. Produced in partnership with The Watercourse, the Bureau of
Reclamation, the Environmental Protection Agency, and American Indian
Science and Engineering Society students at Montana State University, this
16-page full-color booklet gives students the opportunity to become familiar
with tribal beliefs and concerns about water. As a conversation between
grandfather and grandson unfolds, students learn a creation story and learn
the names of native tribes. Through lessons that include making licorice
tea, and creating drawings of beaded water symbols, students become familiar
with historical and modern water use on reservation lands, and learn what
they can do to help conserve water.
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