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Understanding the Urban Watershed
Education for the Classroom

An integrated approach to learning – using Philadelphia’s water story as the context.

Understanding the Urban Watershed Curriculum Project is designed as a place-based, hands-on and minds-in learning experience for students to increase their knowledge, attitude and behaviors as it relates to their local environment through the water.

Students grow their understanding of water, the relationship of humans and the natural environment and how they impact our environment and how it impacts them to move them to action. You will find in this website resources for widening and deepening learning. Think of it just like water—a drop, a trickle can become a flowing stream, joining with other streams to broader and vaster bodies of water—oceans of learning!

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Dip Your Toe!
Guides for Informal Educators

If you are looking for Activity Guides as downloadable pdfs on a variety of water themes, look no further. Click through to find A Guide for Informal Educators: Understanding the Urban Watershed, Practical Lessons and Activities for grades K-8, and POOL: A Social History of Segregation Exhibition and Website, Teacher Companion Guide for grades 6-12.

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Wade in the Water!
Thematic Exploration and Learning

A collection of Mini Units focused on various topics such as Trees, Freshwater Mussels and Global Water/Sustainable Development Goals.

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Take the Plunge!
Full Classroom Series

A series of engaging learning experiences aligned to PA Environmental Literacy and Sustainability Standards with many MWEE opportunities, full teacher instructional narratives, student materials and student-facing slide decks, resources, and more.

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Water Connects Us All

Learn more about how the Urban Watershed Curriculum offers an integrated approach to learning using Philadelphia’s water story as the context.

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