School Programs
During the 2002-03 school year, UCR offered an educational program based on a modified version of the U.S. EPA’s Girl Scout Water Drop Patch Project, which provides students with an overview of activities that they can do to protect their local waterways. The purpose of the project was to encourage students to:
- Make a difference in their communities by becoming watershed stewards;
- Use their skills and knowledge to educate others in their community about the need to protect the nation’s valuable water resources;
- Explore the natural world to gain an interest in science and math; and
- Use the Internet as a source of information.
Funded by EPA’s Office of Environmental Education as a pilot project, UCR offered the Watershed Patch Program to elementary and middle schools located in the headwaters region of the Chattahoochee River (Habersham, Hall, White, Forsyth and Lumpkin Counties). More than 500 students in grades 4-8 were involved in a year long study on water resources and approximately 2,500 students in 25 schools gained exposure to water quality issues through an informative presentation on the Chattahoochee River and an introduction to the Watershed Patch Project manual and activities. Students participating in this project received a certificate of completion from EPA, depending upon the number of watershed activities the students participate in throughout the school year.
You can learn more about the Watershed Patch Program
Please also visit these School Programs:
Floating Classroom on Lake Lanier
Waters to the Sea
River Stewardship Trunks
