RE: School Gardens and awareness
- Archived: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 16:09:00 -0400 (EDT)
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 15:41:40 -0400 (EDT)
- From: chris lewicki <lewicki.chris@epa.gov>
- Subject: RE: School Gardens and awareness
- X-topic: Outreach
Getting youth aware and involved is critical to community based environmental protection. In addition to engaging kids through schools and school curriculum, there are opportunities to engage youth through extra curricular activities like the girls scouts. EPA's Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds, in partnership with Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital (GSCNC), developed the Water Drop Patch for girls to earn.
The purpose of th Water Drop Patch is to encourage girls to:
*Make a difference in their communities by becoming watershed and wetlands stewards
*Use their skills and their knowledge to educate others in their community about theneed to protect the nation's valuable water resources
*Explore the natural world to gain an interest in science and math
*Use the Internet as a source of information
By earning the Water Drop Patch girls are exposed to the concepts of: Watersheds, nonpoint source pollution, wetlands, and groundwater and drinking water and they engage in community ACTION by completing a number of community projects.
You can access the water drop patch materials on-line at:
http://www.epa.gov/adopt/patch/
Or you can order a hard copy from the National Service Center for Environmental Publications at 1-800-490-9198. Publication number is EPA-840-B-01-001
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