School Program
Massachusetts Water Resources Authority

MORE INFORMATION Water Quality Workshop Educators: Join us at the Waterworks Museum for a Water Quality Workshop on Thursday, February 23, 2012 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Click for details (PDF) Pre-registration is required, please email Meg Tabacsko to sign up IT'S TIME FOR MWRA's 2011-2012 POSTER AND WRITING CONTEST Go to contest details Check out last year's contest winners! Poster | Writing "Source to Sea" Newsletter (PDF) Download MWRA's Water Quality Testing Manual All of our free curriculum guides DEER ISLAND BINGO Make your next visit to Deer Island extra fun with our Deer Island Perimeter Walk Bingo Game. It’s free and fun for all ages. DEER ISLAND SCAVENGER HUNT Turn your visit to Deer Island into an educational exploration .doc | .pdf WATER AND GERMS Student/teacher activity that seeks to replace misinformation and partial knowledge with easy to understand facts about the nature of germs and their transmission. TOURS TOURS: Students, teachers and other groups are welcome to request tours of MWRA facilities. Please understand that for your safety, we must impose some restrictions. Frequently asked quesions about Deer Island tours TIPS FOR STUDENTS TIPS for learning about MWRA and its projects.

Water issues are key to environmental education. Learning about their places in the water cycle helps students see the links between their daily lives and important environmental issues like water conservation and pollution.

MWRA educational guides contain hands-on activities for a range of topics and grade levels and are supported by free teacher workshops. For more information, please contact us.

TEACHER RESOURCES

Classroom Presentations Hands-on activities and demonstrations for preschool to high school level students. Details

Teacher Training Workshops The background and instruction to get started. PDP certified. Request more info

Drinktap.org Fun, educational activities for parents, kids and teachers presented by the American Waterworks Association.

ANNUAL POSTER AND WRITING CONTEST

Students in schools across the MWRA service area are challenged to create posters and essays about different topics each year. Winners are honored at a ceremony every spring.

WATER FROM SOURCE TO SEA NEWSLETTER

Published three times yearly with ready-to-use curriculum pages and updates. Current issue and archive of past issues Sign up for our mailing list

CURRICULUM GUIDES

All of our curriculum guides are available for free download.

Water Works - Basic environmental concepts of water supply for 3rd & 4th grade students. Water Watchers - Middle school water supply and conservation concepts. Water Quality Testing Manual - Background and instructions for 8 surface water tests. For middle school and high school students.

OUR AWARD-WINNNG COLORING BOOK

"Dwayne the Storm Drain" The activities in "Dwayne" are appropriate for students from pre-school through upper elementary grades.

DEMONSTRATION AND TESTING KITS

Water Quality Testing Kits For performing 8 surface water tests: temperature, pH, DO, turbidity, nitrates, Biochemical Oxygen Demand, Total Dissolved Solids and coliform. NOTE: this kit is not suitable for tap water testing and available to teachers only after completion of a half-day training workshop. Request form Bay State Fertilizer Planter Kits Kits include pots, soil, quick germinating seeds and MWRA fertilizer pellets. Request form

BOSTON HARBOR UPDATE VIDEO

A video tour of the Deer Island Treatment Plant and related Boston Harbor Project facilities. Request form

STAFF CONTACTS

Classroom Presentations
Meg Tabacsko, (617) 660-7975
Meg.Tabacsko@mwra.state.ma.us

Teacher and Student Materials Orders
on-line order form

Tours of Deer Island Treatment Plant
Deer Island Tour Hotline, (617) 660-7607

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Updated December 22, 2011