Student and Teacher Resources

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EID works with community partners around the region. The links below provide teacher and student resources to find materials, lesson plans, and workshops at no cost.
 
Be Water SmartBeWaterSmart.info provides educational materials and tools for students and teachers and provides teacher resources for tools for the classroom.

Project Wet

Water Education for Teachers (WET) provides materials and workshops that provide educational credits at no charge. Teachers receive materials, books, and hands on training of lesson plans to take back to the classroom.

All curriculum meets California Standards and the Environmental Education Initiative (EEI). Visit the Project WET Teach and Learn teacher resource page.


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The Water Education Foundation (WEF) offers a variety of programs to teach students, our future voters and leaders, about water. Students in grades K-14 learn about the history, geography and science of water, and the difficult decisions surrounding this complex issue. All Foundation classroom materials are consistent with the standards of the California State Frameworks for Science and History/Social Science and are designed to correlate with grade-level teaching requirements.
 
El Dorado County Ag in the ClassroomEl Dorado County Ag in the Classroom provides high quality educational programs to increase awareness of the importance of agriculture in our lives.  It also highlights the importance of water in agriculture by showcasing EID 's water. 
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Department of Water Resources logoThe Department of Water Resources (DWR) is responsible for managing and protecting California's water. DWR works with other agencies to benefit the state's people, and to protect, restore and enhance the natural and human environments.

DWR's website offers educational materials and provides water facts on watersheds, wetlands, and other important information on how the environment and what we do effects our water quality. Visit the website to learn more and access student handbook and teacher guides.

United States Geological Survey (USGS)The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is the  Nation's largest water, earth, and biological science and civilian mapping agency. They collect, monitor, analyze, and provide impartial scientific information about natural resource conditions, issues, and problems to resource managers, planners, and customers.

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