Water Education Workshop for Teachers

Common Core, Science and Water Education Workshop

Teaching to the common core and science standards can be achieved with the California Environmental Education Initiative Curriculum (EEI) and the Project WET (Water Education for Teachers) Curriculum and Activity Guide. Come learn by doing at this engaging teacher workshop at the County Office of Education.

Project WET: K-12th grade, Interdisciplinary, activity guide that specializes in hands-on lessons about water. Revised in 2011 in full color, onlineactivities and aligned to Common Cores standards. www.projectwet.org

California EEI: California State Board of Education approved K-12th grade curriculum uses environmental topics to meet current CA History-Social Science standards. All units also include new correlations to CCSS for Language ARts www.CaliforniaEEI.org

Other Curricula provided:

Watershed Cruzin’: An Activity Guide to Santa Cruz County Watersheds teaches classroom and field-based science activities for 4th-12th grades to help students explore their local watersheds.

Our Water Works in Santa Cruz County: An Activity Book About Our Fresh Water Resources: Through activities, drawings, poetry and math problems, this booklet tells the Santa Cruz County water story. Watershed map included.

Continuing education credit available from CSUMB.

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SPONSORED BY:

• Soquel Creek Water District
• City of Watsonville
• California Regional Environmental Education Community
• Resource Conservation District of Santa Cruz County
• United States Geological Survey
• California Water Education Foundation