Links to Relevant National Water Education
Initiatives
Adopt
Your Watershed
U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA)
This national campaign is designed to encourage
stewardship of the nation's water resources. Through this effort,
EPA challenges citizens and organizations to join those who are
working to protect and restore our valuable rivers, streams, wetlands,
lakes, ground water, and estuaries. Explore the on-line database
to learn about opportunities to get involved in activities in your
community, such as monitoring, cleanups, and restoration projects.
Cooperative
Extension Supports Youth Environmental Stewardship (CESYES)
This national project has pulled together
a number of resources, and has developed a few of its own, to facilitate
program development and delivery for Extension educators, 4-H county
and state faculty, and professionals from other natural resources
agencies to serve communities, youth leaders and youth.
Digital
Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) and Digital
Water Education Library (DWEL)
DLESE resources include electronic materials
for both teachers and learners, such as lesson plans, maps, images,
data sets, visualizations, assessment activities, curriculum, online
courses, and much more. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation,
DLESE is being designed, built, and governed by community members
from around the country. The DWEL collection, a component of DLESE,
will be accessible through the Digital Library for Earth Systems
Education in the future.
Educating
Young People About Water (EYPAW)
EYPAW guides and water
curricula database provide assistance for developing a community-based,
youth water education program. These resources target youth and
link educators to key community members to build partnerships to
meet common water education goals.
Getting
In Step: A Guide to Effective Outreach in Your Watershed
U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, The Council of State Governments, and Tetra Tech, Inc.
This guide provides tools for the development
and implementation of an effective watershed outreach plan. If you're
a watershed practitioner trained in the sciences, this manual will
help you address public perceptions promote management activities,
and inform or motivate stakeholders.
Guide
to Great Lakes Fisheries Education Resources
This guide describes Great Lakes fisheries
education resources in terms of content and education approach.
Search for Great Lakes fisheries education resources or use the
resources to promote Great Lakes ecosystem and fisheries education
efforts.
National
Watershed Forum--Final Report
The National Watershed Forum was an unprecedented
event designed to give voice to geographically, politically, and
culturally diverse individuals that worked together to develop recommendations
for advancing watershed protection and restoration. It brought together
480 community leaders and senior policy makers to discuss the future
of the nation's watersheds. Recommendations outlined by the group
for watershed education and outreach are listed on page 18 of the
final report.
Polluted
Runoff (Nonpoint Source Pollution), U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency
This site offers a variety of nonpoint source education
resources including the following:
Recreational
Boating and Fishing Foundation Resources (RBFF)
The RBFF is a nonprofit
organization whose mission is to increase participation in recreational
angling and boating and thereby increase public awareness and appreciation
of the need for protecting, conserving and restoring this nation's
aquatic natural resources.
Supporting Community-Based Environmental
Education (CBEE)
Project materials focus on two issues: How
to support community involvement in decision-making about the environment,
and how to most efficiently and effectively use the strengths of
the sponsoring agencies, US EPA and USDA Cooperative Extension,
when working with communities. For more on CBEE project findings:
http://www.uwex.edu/erc/pdf/EPA1.pdf
The following project pamphlets are particularly
relevant to evaluating BEPs:
Water
Academy Web: Online Training in Watershed Management
Watershed Academy, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency
This Web site offers
a variety of self-paced training modules that represent a basic
and broad introduction to the watershed management field.
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