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Understanding the Urban Watershed Curriculum Project

Instructional resources for students to engage with their local watershed and water systems in order to grow their environmental literacy and take action for a more equitable and sustainable future.

Elementary

Connect students to environmental learning experience with For the Love of Water and Me and My Watershed modules and, naturally, to one of the most fundamental elements of all living things-water.

Integrate outdoor investigation with classroom learning experiences
Ponder the question– Is water a renewable resource?
Everyone lives (and goes to school) in a watershed
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Middle

Dive deeply into the development and management of the city’s drinking water, wastewater and stormwater management systems. Explore the interdependent relationship between the built and natural environment and how to make it a loving, long-lasting one.

Integrate outdoor investigation with classroom learning experiences
What does it take for us to drink a glass of fresh, clean, delicious water?
Discover sustainable solutions and how to take action for a healthy environment that works with nature, not in tension.
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High School

Engage students in environmental science by exploring some basic questions in the world around them : Why do we need to understand what science is, how we do it, why it changes and what it is good for?

Integrate outdoor investigation with classroom learning experiences
Discover the many faces of environmental scientists past, present and… you
Why do we trust science?
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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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