Workshop Detail: Wednesday, July 22, 2009

(3-6): Water in Our World & Down the Drain
presented by Cheryl Jefferson
Curriculum Developed by Austin Water Utility

Close the Water Curriculum Gap

  • Addresses the lack of water education availability
  • Stand alone lessons that can be presented in any order
  • Requires two or three weeks of teaching time
  • Focus on water issues
  • Interactive curriculum

Expectation and Benefits

  • Local water issues brought closer to students’ reality
  • Student receives broad understanding of the importance of water in our lives
  • Students learn about the abundance, vulnerability, and limitations of our water sources and relationship between supply and demand
  • Stimulate thought and conversation about a topic usually taboo to public discussion
  • Teach students about the importance of society controlling the flow of water, disposing of waste and reusing a limited resource

Water in Our World (Part I)

  • Water Treatment
  • Water Quality
  • Water Conservation

Down the Drain (Part II)

  • Wastewater Treatment
  • Water Reuse
  • Biosolids Management
  • Alternative Wastewater Systems

Trainer: Susan Werst

The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Community Outreach and Education Program of The Center for Research on Environmental Disease

©2009 The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Center for Research on Environmental Disease
1808 Park Road 1C, Smithville, TX, 78957
512-237-6407, coep@mdanderson.org

Summer Institute, a component of the MIDAS Project, is supported by a
Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) from the National Center
for Research Resources (Grant No. R25 RR018634)