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Many of our educational resources have been translated into French and Cree. Please click on the language for which you would like to see the translated resources: The SDWF programs are available to all schools anywhere in North America. All lessons can be downloaded directly from our website and curriculum connections for respective provinces and lessons are provided. SDWF School Programs Evaluation In submitting an evaluation to the Safe Drinking Water Foundation (SDWF), the evaluator agrees that the SDWF will be granted permission that, at its option, SDWF may publish or otherwise use the applicant's name and evaluation details without limitation and without compensation, in any publicity and funding applications carried out by the SDWF. Teachers! If you e-mail/send us pictures of your students using our kits (any of our Operation Water Drop, Operation Water Pollution or Operation Water Biology kits) in your classroom we will send you a gift! Please note that the students'/parents' permission must be obtained so that we are able to use the pictures in our or our funders' advertisements and other documents (these pictures may also be used on social media sites such as Facebook). Please send pictures to info@safewater.org or Safe Drinking Water Foundation, #1-912 Idylwyld Drive North, Saskatoon, SK S7L 0Z6, thanks! School Program Overview (PowerPoint) Suggestions for Teachers who are Using the SDWF's School Programs in their Classrooms Introduction to Water Quality Issues: Resources for Teachers to Use Prior to Teaching Safe Drinking Water Foundation Programs Source Water Protection (PowerPoint) Source Water Protection Fact Sheet Problem-based learning (PBL) is a student-centered instructional strategy in which students collaboratively solve problems and reflect on their experiences. PBL can be used in conjunction with any (or all!) of the SDWF's environmental education programs. If you are a teacher who uses our programs and has developed additional worksheets, information sheets, etc. to go with our programs when you teach them that you would like us to post on our website so that other teachers can benefit from what you have created, we would greatly appreciate if you would e-mail them to us. Our Kits are Being Used at the Royal Ontario Museum
Safe Drinking Water Foundation educational kits are being used at the Life In Crisis: Schad Gallery of Biodiversity at the Royal Ontario Museum. Expectations of TeachersTo encourage students to develop critical thinking skills, which will empower them to become active members of their community. Expectations of StudentsTo be interested in, and open to, new perspectives and opinions about issues related to safe drinking water. Funding For Your School's Water-Focused Action Projects!There is funding available to support the implementation of water-focused action projects in your school! Make learning from our kits the first step in your action project and receive the funding necessary to purchase our Operation Water Drop, Operation Water Pollution and/or Operation Water Biology kits! For more information on how to apply for this funding that is available to Canadian elementary and high schools please visit http://r4r.ca/en/project-flow/funding If you need any assistance with your application please do not hesitate to contact us at (306) 934-0389 or info@safewater.org and/ or to contact Resources for Rethinking at 1-877-250-8202 or info@lsf-lst.ca CAWST (Centre for Affordable Water & Sanitation Technology) is a non-profit based out of Calgary that provides training to organizations that work directly with populations in the developing world who lack access to clean water and basic sanitation. The Youth Wavemakers Program was created in 2008 to educate and engage youth in global and local water issues and empower them to take action as global citizens. For the first time this fall, CAWST’s Youth Wavemakers Program is opening its Action Grants to K-12 youth across Canada. Wavemakers provides educators with tools to facilitate both the creation and implementation of an action project with their students, as well as funding to implement these projects (up to $500 per team). Make learning from our kits the first step in your action project and receive the funding necessary to purchase our Operation Water Drop, Operation Water Pollution and/or Operation Water Biology kits! The deadline for project proposals is November 15th, 2012. Visit http://wavemakers.cawst.org/ for more information.
Operation Water Drop (OWD)Operation Water Drop is available in both English and French. Elementary teachers can demonstrate eight scientific tests on their own community drinking water: Alkalinity, Ammonia, Colour, Copper, pH, Sulphate, Total Chlorine and Total Hardness. The students learn the basic need for testing their water to avoid health concerns and how bugs can grow in their water. High School teachers can guide their students to work in groups and test for the above eight compounds, as well as an additional five analytical tests: Arsenic, Heterotrophic Plate Count, Iron, Manganese and Nitrate. Students can compare their local water to three other sample waters as well as to a control medium. Every OWD kit comes with a complimentary "Downstream" DVD. For more information about "Downstream" please click here
TD Bank Group has provided funding for schools to receive Operation Water Drop kits.
Imagineaction is a program of the Canadian Teachers' Federation. It is a platform where experts and teachers can interact and teachers can receive resources, advice, and guidance regarding environmental education. The SDWF is a registered Imagineaction expert and sponsored OWD kits may be available through Imagineaction. Visit http://www.imagine-action.ca/Index.aspx or e-mail info@safewater.org or call (306) 934-0389 for more information. *Please note: ordering through Imagineaction is available to Canadian schools only. Operation Water Flow (OWF)OWF encourages teachers of math, chemistry, biology and social studies to support the science teacher in order to give students a more thorough understanding of issues surrounding drinking water, such as establishing the true cost of water, the social responsibilities of providing safe drinking water, the need for national regulations, and the need for water conservation and source water protection etc. OWF is available in both English and French. Operation Water Flow is available free of charge to schools across Canada. Operation Water Spirit (OWS)Operation Water Spirit is available in both English and Cree, in both audio and written format. OWS is a collection of thematic units and lesson plans which will reinforce Aboriginal culture and perspectives regarding water for Aboriginal students while at the same time provide an Aboriginal perspective to non-Aboriginal students about water issues. Operation Water Spirit is available free of charge to schools across Canada. Operation Water Pollution (OWP)Operation Water Pollution is available in both English and French. Operation Water Pollution is designed for use in both Elementary and High School classrooms. This program directly connects with science and social studies curricula and is set up as content-integrated lessons. The series of eleven lessons guides students through an examination of water pollution issues. The students develop definitions of polluted drinking water that serve as the backbone for the other lessons in this program.
TD Bank Group has provided funding for schools to receive Operation Water Pollution kits.
Imagineaction is a program of the Canadian Teachers' Federation. It is a platform where experts and teachers can interact and teachers can receive resources, advice, and guidance regarding environmental education. The SDWF is a registered Imagineaction expert and sponsored OWP kits may be available through Imagineaction. Visit http://www.imagine-action.ca/Index.aspx or e-mail info@safewater.org or call (306) 934-0389 for more information. *Please note: ordering through Imagineaction is available to Canadian schools only. Operation Water Health (OWH)Operation Water Health is designed for use in both elementary and high school classrooms. This program directly connects with health, science and social studies curricula and is set up as content-integrated lessons. Teachers may choose to present one of the lessons or all of the lessons as they find the material to be most suitable or applicable for their students and related subject lesson plans. The series of eight lessons guides students through an examination of health issues associated with water. The students develop definitions for both healthy and unhealthy drinking water and these definitions serve as the backbone for the other lessons in this program. OWH is available in English, French and Cree. Operation Water Health is available free of charge to schools across Canada. Operation Community Water Footprint (OCWF)Designed for use with students in grades 6-12. OCWF directly connects with science, social studies and math curricula and is set up as content-integrated lessons. Students learn about their local drinking water treatment facility and distribution system by undertaking a research project as a class. Students will calculate how much water (source water) is needed in order to produce one litre of drinking water in their community (including water used in the treatment process, water lost in distribution, etc.) Community water footprints and information regarding water-related issues being faced, actions students are taking to alleviate problems and/or to inform others will be shared via the Safe Drinking Water Foundation's website. Students will be able to compare their community's water footprint to that of other communities across Canada. Students will also investigate the quality of their own community's drinking water. Operation Water Biology (OWB)A series of eight lesson plans designed for use with students in grades 9-12. OWB is available in both English and French. OWB directly connects with science, chemistry and biology curricula and covers several different aspects of drinking water treatment. The major topics are chlorine, chloramine, ammonia and iron. For each of these there is a discussion explaining what it is and its importance to drinking water treatment. There are also lab activities for each which allow students to work with small amounts of these substances and see them in action. Students will demonstrate the idea of chlorine demand, create chloramine through a simple chemical reaction, test local samples of drinking water for chlorine and ammonia and filter water samples with iron oxidized by different processes to determine if one is superior. Every lesson includes additional suggested activities and resources, along with references to other sources of information.
TD Bank Group has provided funding for schools to receive Operation Water Biology kits.
Imagineaction is a program of the Canadian Teachers' Federation. It is a platform where experts and teachers can interact and teachers can receive resources, advice, and guidance regarding environmental education. The SDWF is a registered Imagineaction expert and sponsored OWB kits may be available via Imagineaction. Visit http://www.imagine-action.ca/Index.aspx or e-mail info@safewater.org or call (306) 934-0389 for more information. *Please note: ordering through Imagineaction is available to Canadian schools only. Template for Change (T4C)Template for Change is a program that resulted from the Action Plans in the final lesson plan of Operation Water Drop. As students made their community Action Plan as part of the closing to the school program, parents and community members became aware of the students' perspectives on drinking water and requested that the action plan become a blueprint for implementation and not end in the classroom. Template for Change Video Clips: If you would like a Template for Change (T4C) DVD wallet please call (306) 934-0389 or e-mail info@safewater.org | ||
