The water district's award-winning school program has reached thousands of young people with educational, interactive lessons on every water topic imaginable. This year alone, the education program has visited 13 cities and reached 334 classes, providing lessons for 8,184 students, preschool through college.
The program offers age-appropriate school presentations and tours for Preschool through college classes. The program also includes training for teachers called Project WET (Water Education for Teachers).
In addition, staff developed special lessons stressing district messages for water conservation, recycled water, flood safety and water sources:
- The Little Blue Hen: A Conservation Story was written for primary grades.
- Teach a Mouse to Save Water targets grades 2 through 5.
- This is Recycled Water shows the uses of recycled water to grades 3 through 6.
- The Three Little Pigs and the Bad Weather Wolf introduces flood safety ideas to preschool through grade one.
- Chicken Little’s Flood Advice provides those lessons and more for grades 2 through 6.
- The A, B, C’s of Water has something for everyone. Primary grades get a lesson in vocabulary. Upper grades can learn more through research on the internet on all sorts of water topics, A to Z.
- Staff also put together a poem on water sources for Santa Clara County.
To download these materials, click here.
The Water Education Program is provided free to schools in Santa Clara County. Scheduling begins August 1 for the coming school year and is conducted on a first-come, first-serve basis.