About Splash!

This site is designed to bring water resource education into your classroom. Whether you teach middle-school English, math, social studies, geography, science, or art, Splash! is for you.

The Southwest Florida Water Management District offers Splash! to help teachers and middle school students learn about the protection of our precious water resource.

Splash! Online is a refreshing, fun, effective and easy to use educational tool.

Splash! contains timely, localized information about the water resources of west central Florida.

Splash! will engage your students in lively discussion and meaningful activity.

Each activity is aligned to middle-school Sunshine State Standards.

This Site mirrors the material available in the Splash! packet, available from the District by calling 1-800-423-1476 (Florida only) or (352) 796-7211, extension 4771.

Many other free education materials are available from the Southwest Florida Water Management District. Mail or fax your order to us on the form included in this packet. In addition, excellent curricula such as Who Gets the Water?, Water From the Ground Up, Water Watcher, and Project WET are available through free Water Resources Workshops. If you are interested in learning more about a teacher training workshop in your area, fill out and return the Water Resources Workshop form.

We invite you to try one or all of the activities in this site. Feel free to make as many copies as you want and share them with other teachers. After using the activities in your classroom, please send feedback by clicking on the feedback bar on the main menu. Your comments and suggestions will make Splash! even more useful to teachers and students in west central Florida in the future.

Splash! Online was designed with today's teachers and students in mind, so take the plunge into water resource education today. Make a splash in your classroom - and a difference in your world.