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Project WET is an education initiative aimed at all ages. It stands for “Water Education for Teachers”. They have school materials as well as hold different presentations in school districts. Some of the events this project holds are the World Water Forum, different water festivals and World Water Day. The school materials are separated by grade level groupings ranging from kindergarten to twelve (they have written k-14 many times though) but it also has resources for community leaders and corporations. The tops include water quality, water conservation, wetlands, sanitation, watersheds, ocean, history, ground water and natural disasters.

Although this initiative is aimed at all ages, the materials are rather simplistic in nature. One example is the water cycle – it does not account for water being taken from fresh water systems and contaminated. It goes through the three phases – water evaporates from oceans, rivers and lakes -> forms clouds -> water falls again to the earth into the oceans, rivers and lakes. The site eventually delves into contamination, but it is again very simplistic. Honestly, these resources, although they say they are aimed at all ages and separated as such, is really only reasonable for kindergarten through fourth or fifth grade.

Overall it is not a bad site, although very incomplete for any in depth research or knowledge of water and issues surrounding it.

Projectwet.org