SchoolEducation_Outreach

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• Grade appropriate with background information provided.
• Correlated to the NC Essential Standards for the grades
targeted.
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• There are many great resources and trainings already
available, including Project WET (Water Education for
Teachers).
• Coordination with schools and/or school districts will ensure
attendance.
• You may be able to outsource the training to Soil and Water
Conservation District staff or the NC Project WET State
Coordinator if your staff is willing to coordinate with the
schools and take care of logistics.
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• If you want to do activities directly with students, you may find
taking a few environmental education training workshops like
Methods of EE helpful. This training is available through the
NC Office of Environmental Education and Public Affairs.
Project WET is also offered throughout the state. You can find
a workshop near you through the Office of EE’s workshop
calendar.
• All programming should be aimed at the children themselves
and NOT indirectly at their parents!
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• Generally, schools are more lenient for meeting state essential
standards for events.
• Learning is more difficult to gauge for one-time messaging from
festivals and presentations.
• Large events are a lot of work to put on but can joyfully engage
utility staff with the general public.
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• Greensboro DWR staff directly provide youth education in the
form of classroom presentations, special events and programs.
• Host a water festival for 300 fifth graders each year that high
light the importance of water while visiting 8 different hands-on
water activity sites.
• Greensboro DWR partnered with Kathleen Clay Edwards Library
to offer Project WET (Water Education for Teachers), Wonders of
Wetlands, and Planning of Wetlands. DWR pays for all
Greensboro teachers to attend.
• They also collaborate with NC Cooperative Extension in a poster
contest for Grades 1-4. There are 2 categories, 1. Water Quality
and 2. Water Quantity.
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