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Announcing ourcontest
2007-2008 Poster and Writing Contest Winners!
VISIT BEAUTIFUL
DEER ISLAND

Deer Island
Scavenger Hunt

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Teachers, students & families: visit to Deer Island and take an educational expedition. Just download, pack your pencils and go!
> .pdf version
> .doc version
WATER AND GERMS
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 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
ANNUAL POSTER AND WRITING CONTEST

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 Students in schools across the MWRA service area are challented to create posters and essays about different topics each year. Winners are honored at a ceremony every spring.
WATER FROM SOURCE TO SEA NEWSLETTER

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 Published three times yearly with ready-to-use curriculum pages and updates.
Current issue and archive of past issues
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CURRICULUM GUIDES
All of our curriculum guides are available for free download.

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 Water Works - Basic environmental concepts of water supply for 3rd & 4th grade students.
Water Watchers - Middle School water supply and conservation concepts.
Water Wisdom - 24 stand-alone, multi disciplinary activities on water supply and conservation for high schoolers.
Water Quality Testing Manual - Background and instructions for 8 surface water tests.
OUR AWARD-WINNNG COLORING BOOK

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

Boston Harbor Update
A video tour of the Deer Island Treatment Plant and related Boston Harbor Project facilities (2002)


STAFF CONTACTS

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

Teacher and Student Materials Orders
on-line order form
Jackie Gethers, (617) 660-7973
jackie.gethers@mwra.state.ma.us

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

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Updated June 2, 2008