Teaching Aids and Tools -- Safe Drinking Water

Safe Drinking Water: A Bilingual Curriculum
	Accompaning trunk includes: water test kit, lesson plans, children's stories, videos, audio tapes, technical reports, booklets, posters, and more! This curriculum was developed for use in Nogales, AZ but is useful to educators throughout the U.S./Mexico border region.

The goals of the curriculum are:

• To educate the students, and through them the rest of the community, about safe drinking water issues, focusing primarily on the four subject areas of: hydrology, the source of their community's drinking water, safe drinking water and public health, and conservation;
• To help students and their families understand that there are things they can do in their own homes to promote drinking water protection; and
• To empower students and their families to be able to think critically about the many complex issues related to drinking water protection.

Items enclosed in curriculum trunk:

• Arizona WET curriculum
• Tap Water Tour (Water testing for pH, Chlorine, Iron, Copper, and Hardness)
• Household Hazardous Waste Game; in “Clue” format
• Pumps and Pipes Game; in “Chutes and Ladders” format
• Technical Paper #1: “Delineation of Wellhead Protection Areas, potential sources of contamination”
• Technical Paper #2: “Existing Drinking Water Protection Measures, suggested additional actions”
• Water Quality Test Strips for Hard Water, Chlorine, and pH
• National Geographic Videos: “Water: A precious resource” and “Reflections on Water”
• The Woman Who Outshone the Sun (cassette and book; bilingual)
• The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks (bilingual)
• The Story of Drinking Water (bilingual) with Teacher’s Guide
• Outlook on Groundwater book (elementary, middle/junior, and senior levels)
• Water Saving Chart (“Beat the Peak”) (2 copies)
• Santa Cruz AMA report, July 1996
• Water Quality Series:
  • Book 1: Water Quality Sampling Equipment
  • Book 2: Homemade Sampling Equipment
  • Book 3: Organizing and Conducting a Cleanup
  • Book 4: Common Aquatic Flora and Fauna
• Tucson Water “Water Smart” brochure
• “About Groundwater Protection” brochure
• Household Hazardous Waste Wheel
• Groundwater and Land Use in the Water Cycle poster (4 copies)
• EPA’s Preventing Waterborne Disease
• Operating Instructions for Groundwater Education Trunk
• Welcome to Recycle City Poster (2 Copies)
• Pesticide DRASTIC Map of Tucson AMA
• Water Conservation Kit: Make Every Drop Count
• EPA’s “Lead in School Drinking Water”

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