Project WET: Water Education for Teachers
About Project WET
Santa Clara Valley Water District supports Project WET’s mission is to reach children, parents, teachers and community members with water education that promotes awareness of water and empowers community action to solve complex water issues.
Santa Clara Valley Water District hosts training workshops to educators at all levels, formal and non-formal, on diverse water topics so that those educators can reach children with objective, experiential, science-based water education.
Information about upcoming Project WET workshops
For more information about Project WET visit: https://www.projectwet.org/
Upcoming Workshops
FREE - Project WET workshop on Water Quality!
POSTPONED until we get enough interest to reschedule
Water quality is an important issue here in the Bay Area with many contributing factors leading to pollution in our waterways and ending up in the San Francisco and Monterey Bays. Come learn some fun ways to explore water quality with your students and enjoy a tour at the Silicon Valley Advanced Water Purification Center (SVAWPC) near Alviso, CA.
Address: 4190 Zanker Rd., San Jose, CA 95134
We are targeting upper grade educators (5th grade and up) due to the subject matter content as well as the fact that the field trips offered to the Purification Center are currently only for 5th grade and up. All participants will receive a free copy of the Project WET Curriculum and Activity Guide 2.0. If you are a lower grade teacher/educator, and still want to attend, please feel free to register; however, priority will be given to educators teaching upper grad students. If we have enough interest from lower grade teachers, we will announce an additional training date.
The interdisciplinary Project WET activities provide an enhanced interactive activity component to EEI, while EEI helps students connect the concepts and skills in Project WET activities to California specific scenarios. Both programs are correlated to Common Core Standards & Next Generation Science Standards (draft). Each are effective tools for integrating student knowledge of water resources through the study of real-life scenarios that provide strong foundations for STEAM and Service-Learning programs.
(*NOTE: this particular workshop will not include EEI curriculum, only Project WET and instead we will focus on the SCVWD tours and teacher check-out kits available FREE for Santa Clara County Educators.)
Public tours as well as school tours of the SVAVPC can be booked, please visit this website to learn more: www.purewater4u.org.
Questions? Contact [email protected]. Want to learn more about Project WET or see a list of other trainings in our region? Visit www.watereducation.org/project-wet for more information.
To register for this workshop click here to be directed to the Google registration form.
Please do still REGISTER through the link above if you are interested, we will send a poll out for selecting the best date to reschedule once we get 15 or more educators interested.