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K-12 Education

WRRI collaborates with local and state partners to provide K-12 water science resources for teachers, students, and parents.

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Watershed Wisdom
(Grades 4-5)

This series of free standards-aligned lessons consists of activities, multimedia resources, and a teacher guide. It provides enough material to cover ~2 weeks of class time. The resource was developed by NC WRRI, PBS NC, Project WET, NC Sea Grant, and the NC Watershed Stewardship Network.

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Cartoon image has four signs reading, "Use less water"; "Don't pollute"; "Preserve the wetlands"; "No lead in our pipes"

Keeping Water Renewable (Grades 8-12)

This series of free, standards-aligned lessons consists of activities, multimedia resources, and a teacher guide. It provides enough material for 10-12 class periods. This resource was developed by NC WRRI, PBS NC, NC Sea Grant, NC DEQ, and NC Inquiry Collaborative Network.

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Additional Resources

  • ProjectWET also offers materials for teaching children from pre-K to high school at home.
  • The Project WET Twitter feed offers more resources and opportunities.
  • Clean Water Education Partnership (CWEP) shares activities to help kids learn about water while moving around – activities for pre-K through eighth grade.
  • CWEP’s Twitter feed provides even more content for young children, such as water songs and story book readings.STEAM Squad is a weekly resource for science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics activities.