KET’s Newest Instructional Media Resource in Environmental Education !

1. Raindrops to Rivers KET’s Newest Instructional Media Resource in Environmental Education!

2. Your Presenters Today • Dr. Melinda Wilder Director of Division of Natural Areas Professor, College of Education, EKU melinda.wilder@eku.edu 859-622-1476 • Larry MooreKET Education Consultant North Central Region lmoore@ket.org 1-800-432-0951

3. Raindrops to Rivers Electronic Field Trip to a Watershed • DVD with two 15-minute programs one for grades 3-5 one for Grades 6-8 Professional Development Component • Presented on CD-ROM and the web • The PD supports content presented in the Electronic Field Trip to a Watershed with models of exemplary instruction. Components of Project

4. Two 15-minute programs – one for grades 3-5 , one for Grades 6-8. • The programs contain: • Virtual visit to a watershed, showing Kentucky rivers flowing into larger basins and ultimately, the Gulf of Mexico. • Specific Kentucky geography including urban and rural settings, mountains, rivers and streams, karst, sinkholes, and wetlands. • Illustrates the most common forms of nonpoint (nps) source pollution and what can be done to help eliminate some of its forms.

5. Purpose • Designed to help teachers plan and implement lessons about nonpoint source water pollution • Varied • Settings • Grade levels • Subject matter • Funded in part by a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under §319(h) of the Clean Water Act. Administered through the KY Division of Water

6. Development • Teachers from across the state that had been involved in workshops focusing on nps water pollution • Filmed classrooms demonstrating best practices in environmental education • Teacher interviews • Student work

7. Features • Current • Raindrops to Rivershttp://www.raindropstorivers.org • Core Content • Future Resources • KTIP format lesson plans • Teacher’s guide for Electronic Fieldtrip to a Watershed