CONSERVE WATER GEORGIA
Educator Resources
- Take the 40 Gallon Challenge
- Teacher's Guide: Fix A Leak Week
- A Day in the Life of a Drop
- Georgia's Native Waters
- Georgia Project WET (Water Education for Teachers)
- Georgia Green and Healthy Schools
- Environmental Education in Georgia
- Drought in Georgia
Take the 40 Gallon Challenge
The 40 Gallon Challenge is an exciting way to get students and community members excited about saving water. The pledge card outlines water-saving practices and the daily water-savings to expect. You can use the pledge to review the water-saving practices that you or your class put to use. By pledging new practices, you will see the total daily savings expected for your household.
Consider a friendly competition with your neighboring county!
For more information, contact Ellen Bauske at 770-233-5558 or ebauske@uga.edu
A Day in the Life of a Drop
A set of activities designed to help students in third through fifth grades understand the connections between the source of the water they use and the ways their water use habits affect the environment and human health.
Georgia Project WET (Water Education for Teachers)
Georgia Project WET provides training for formal and non-formal educators and facilitators through water education workshops. Workshop participants receive hands-on training and the Project WET curriculum including an activity guide, which features more than 90 activities developed, field-tested and reviewed by over 600 educators nation-wide.
The Georgia Project WET newsletter, the "Dragonfly Gazette," is published bi-annually and features state-specific background information for WET activities, thematic lesson plans, interviews with water professionals and a forum for teachers and facilitators to share their ideas and accomplishments.
The newsletters below focus on the drought in Georgia.
Georgia Green and Healthy Schools
The Georgia Green and Healthy Schools program begins with a pledge to complete one of seven assessment areas, including water, and is followed by up to three levels of advancement. To participate, students and teachers use assessment tools to conduct school-based investigations on one or more of the seven total assessment areas.
Environmental Education in Georgia
Environmental Education in Georgia provides lesson plans based on Georgia’s curriculum standards, a searchable directory of Georgia's EE organizations and the resources they offer, a statewide calendar of EE events, EE news and easy-to-access facts about Georgia's environment.
Drought in Georgia
A unit on drought in Georgia for sixth-grade earth science teachers that features standards-based activities and background information.