Project WET (Water Education for Teachers)
What is Project WET?
Project WET (Water Education for Teachers) is a collection of innovative, water-related activities that are hands-on, easy to use and fun! Project WET activities are easily incorporated into a school's existing curricula. Project WET is intended for teachers and non-formal educators working with young people in grades K-12. The program focuses on peoples' relationship to water throughout their lives.
Students learn that water is a shared resource as well as a shared responsibility. Project WET is easily integrated into a schools existing curricula. It also meets the curricular needs of nature centers, museums, teacher trainings, pre-service classes, and community organizations.
The Goal of Project WET
The goal of Project WET is to facilitate and promote awareness, appreciation, knowledge, and stewardship of water resources through the development and dissemination of classroom ready teaching aides, and through the establishment of internationally and state sponsored Project WET programs.
More about Project WET (Water Education for Teachers):
- How to Get WET - How to get the WET Activity Guide.
- WET Activity Guide - Description of what is in the WET Curriculum and Activity Guide.
- Regional WET Coordinators - Who to contact in your area about Project WET.
- Types of WET Workshops - Description of what goes on at and what is involved with a Project WET workshop.
- History of WET - A little about Project WET.
- Project WET Resource List - Annotated list of printed and online resources that will supplement lesson plans and provide teachers with suggestions for finding water-based educational materials.
- Where Did You Go on Your Incredible Journey? (Project WET) - Students who participated in Project WET's Incredible Journey game, where students become water molecules and travel in the water cycle, wrote stories about where they ventured to as water molecules.
