“Blue Planet” is one of the most popular Project WET activities, and there are so many ways you can engage students beyond the globe-toss. The autumn edition of California Project WET Gazette explores those other opportunities, including the Oct. 10 launch of the Europa Clipper mission.

Please consider joining one of our fall workshops, or pass the word to your colleagues.

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With the summer Olympics in Paris fast approaching, the summer edition of the California Project WET Gazette explores the project WET activity “H2Olympics” and the amazing water properties of adhesion and cohesion.

The Autumn California Project WET Gazette provides an overview of changes in the works for Project WET, including across-the-board updating of our activities, new guides and improved online resources.

Last chance! This fall will be the last opportunity to receive the current, large Project WET Guide 2.0. Please pass the word to your colleagues who might be interested in getting a copy.

Upcoming Project Wet workshops:​

Welcome to spring, Project WET Educators! In light of recent storms, I focused this Spring Gazette on Project WET activities that explore important water and land management challenges in the news, like protecting communities against floods while holding on to storm runoff for the drier months ahead. These activities then place your students in the hot seat of decision-making to find a balance to these challenges. 

Welcome to a New Year, Project WET Educators! A variety of new or updated resources were released in the past few months, so I decided to highlight a variety of these tools for the Winter Gazette. In addition to the resources, you’ll find suggestions for Project WET activities to pair with each resource.

People have lived in the American Southwest for thousands of years, learning to live with extreme weather events that have brought down past civilizations. The Summer Gazette highlights examples of traditional ecological knowledge that Native American tribes are using to help conserve water, restore ecological processes and resiliency in a world that has grown far warmer, arid and extreme in its cycles.

It has been a summer of weather extremes super-charged by the warming of the planet from ’heat domes’ and drought to hurricanes, flash floods and fires hammering ecosystems around the world. 

The Autumn Gazette highlights Project WET activities that delve into the factors involved in restoring ecosystems and the impact human actions can have on ecosystem function and building climate resiliency in the natural systems we rely on.

As the year-long challenge of COVID-19 begins to ebb and the transition back into the classroom occurs over the next month, students will likely have social and emotional needs that must be met before learning can take full flight once more. Activities to help focus on these needs and rebuild the classroom community is the focus of the Spring 2021 Gazette.

HAPPY NEW YEAR, GAZETTE READERS!

Hope this note finds you well, a bit more relaxed and looking forward to what we all hope will be a rapid reigning-in of COVID-19 in the near future. In the meantime, screen fatigue and opportunities for greater physical activity during the stormy months of winter remain a concern for all.

I hope everyone had a chance to take a breath and find some calm over the summer, and that this note finds you well and retaining your sanity. This Autumn Gazette includes a broad range of ideas on WET activities to consider using to support distance learning in the hope that everyone will find something they can use at any grade level in this challenging time.

Spring is upon us and the Spring 2020 California Project WET Gazette is ‘live’ on the Water Education Foundation website. This edition delves into the history of Earth Day, which will be celebrating its 50th year this April. Climate education and action are the theme of Earth Day and many other environmental events in 2020, so this Gazette highlights a variety of climate education resources available from the ‘Projects’ – WET, WILD and Learning Tree.

The Autumn 2019 California Project WET Gazette is ‘live’ on the Water Education Foundation website. Marine debris or inland trash waiting to be washed out to sea from inland areas are the focus of the newsletter, as well as coastal, river and Delta clean-up events this fall. Hope this newsletter motivates you to try a few of the activities and get some trash off the ground with your students!

The Winter 2019 California Project WET Gazette is ‘live’ on the Water Education Foundation website.

The use of weather and climate data was a topic of much interest during several Fall 2018 workshops, so the Winter Gazette takes a look at the Guide 1.0 activity ‘Wet Vacation’ and what one can do with it and students with all the online tools available now that did not exist when the activity was written in the 1990’s.

The Summer 2018 California Project WET Gazette is ‘live’ on the Water Education Foundation website. An outbreak of highly invasive nutria has been spreading in the northern San Joaquin Valley toward the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.  As the beginning of June is California Invasive Species Action Week, it seemed worth it to return to the topic of invasive species by highlighting one in particular - Nutria.

Hope you have been having a wonderful holiday. The Winter 2018 California Project WET Gazette is ‘live’ on the Water Education Foundation website.

The article takes a look at ‘The Life Box’ activity and links to life needs and garden programs. You’ll also find loads of links to winter and early spring events, grants, student contests and a variety of workshops and Special Workshops and Events.

Dear California Project WET Educators,

The Winter 2017 California Project WET Gazette is “live” on the Water Education Foundation website. I’ve had a lot of requests for an ocean topic, so hope you enjoy diving into the ‘Oceans Habitat’ activity in this edition of the Gazette.