Classroom Resources

Elk Run Study Group fully understands the absolute importance of involving teachers and students in water quality studies and actions. Following are a few resources for use in classrooms or by organizations.

1. Educating Young People about Water:
   www.uwex.edu/erc/eypaw/guides.html

   Links to curricula appropriate for educating young people about water. The curricula is organized by both grade level and topic with downloadable guides to program planning and evaluation. Comprehensive.

2. West Virginia Project WET:
   www.wvdep.org/item.cfm?ssid=11&ss1id=870&page=./dwwm/ProjectWet/home.cfm

   Project WET is an interdisciplinary water education program that provides K-12 teachers and other educators with hands-on classroom activities through training workshops.

3. Tips for teaching environmental issues:
   serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/affective/environment.html

4. United States Geological Survey's Water Science for Schools site:
   ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/index.html

5. Drinking Water and Ground Water Kids' Stuff page on Environmental Protection Agency site:
   www.epa.gov/OGWDW/kids/

6. Chesapeake Bay Foundation:
   www.cbf.org/Page.aspx?pid=540

   This is a good site for information and resources about how your locality influences the health of the Chesapeake. Details field programs, volunteer activities and fact sheets.

7. National Conservation Center Shepherdstown, WV:
   nctc.fws.gov

   Excellent resource located in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia.

8. Izzak Walton League/Save Our Streams:
   iwla.org

   Superb opportunity to involve teachers and students in biological monitoring of streams. High interest to students and of great value.

9. Friends of the Shenandoah River:
   www.fosr.org/education.cfm

   Good active organization committed to the health of the Shenandoah River monitoring. Data files. Education outreach.