June is an exciting month for The Groundwater Foundation as we bring many of our collaborative projects to fruition.
Working with the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality (NDEQ) and educators in Western Nebraska, we bring the Recharging Groundwater Education program to a teacher’s workshop in Ogallala. Among the other useful tools teachers can use to enhance student science learning, we’re providing classrooms with Awesome Aquifer Kits and supplementing the traditional curriculum with new and updated activities, worksheets, andtechnologies.
Mid-June is marked by an exciting collaboration with the University
of Nebraska – Lincoln and Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute with the WELS2 program. It will bring Nebraska’s science educators the HydrogeologyChallenge program with an emphasis on model-based learning. Participating teachers will use the week to prepare and develop a groundwater curriculum that they will use
during the 2017 – 2018 academic year. Understanding the concept of models and
the Hydrogeology Challenge through Nebraska’s new College and Career Ready
Standards for Science will empower teachers to incorporate groundwater education
into their science classes, as well as provide students with a modern environment
to learn and boost their problem-solving skills.
Finally, the Nebraska Wellhead Protection Network, another
partnership with the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality, will have its
quarterly meeting on June 21st in Hastings, Nebraska. Beyond sharing updates and ideas for
education and outreach programs, attendees will also have the chance to learn
about and tour Hastings’ brand new Aquifer Storage and Restoration
facility. Begun in July 2016, the
nearly-complete project aims to increase drinking water storage and quality and
simultaneously reduce the economic burden of clean water on taxpayers. Interested in attending? Register here.
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