5.2: Students and Youth
Increase student and youth awareness, understanding, and active participation in water resources issues. Other Information:
We must take several steps to offer age-appropriate activities and curricula about water resources and the Delaware River
Basin to the next generation of decision-makers. An integrated, sequential, K-12 science curriculum focused on the Delaware
River Basin and emphasizing service in partnership with the community can provide districts and educators with some of the
tools needed to expand water resource education in our schools. Providing outdoor experiences to engage students in learning
about their watershed. Nothing makes a watershed lesson more fun and interesting than actual participation in an outdoor experience.
This is when theory becomes alive and engaging. Students can learn about important water resource educational elements by
applying science concepts directly to a local watershed, monitoring their local watersheds through field studies, learning
about the impacts of water resources in their communities, and restoring watersheds through community needs-based projects.
Supporting educators by providing information. A web-based clearinghouse can provide timely, local aspects on water resource
issues useful for curricula and activity development.
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