Water Stewardship in the Classroom

Water Stewardship in the Classroom

Author Alicia Gabourie Mallory Moore Amy Tenbult Kendra Abbey Kevin Inch Tamara Tucker Loretta Dunford

Haliburton Muskoka Children's Water Festival

Tom Whillans, Trent School of the Environment

2011

TP-632

Haliburton
Muskoka
Kawarthas

Environmental Education

Most children's water festivals are held in the spring. Uniquely the Haliburton-Muskoka Children's Water Festival (HMCWF) is put on in the fall to avoid subjecting the students to the mosquitoes of a Haliburton spring. However this has the disadvantage that students will be working with concepts that are likely to be later in the curriculum. The purpose of the project will be to plan, research, and design four take home 'water challenges" to be included in the Haliburton-Muskoka Children's Water Festival teacher's guide. The challenges will be created following Project FLOW guidelines and using the existing themes and activity centres used by the HMCWF. The challenges will provide hands-on experiential learning opportunities that will promote direct action on water-related issues. The 'challenges' will also provide teacher's with additional grade 4 and 6 curriculum based activities that extend learning from the festival into the classroom.