Who: Webster Elementary School teachers and students
What: Save-A-Drop Day celebrates a year of studying the water cycle, watersheds and water conservation. Students will participate in a variety of hands-on environmental educational activities, including watershed model demonstrations and outdoor stations relating to appreciating our water and the plants and animals that depend on it. Students will also take the water conservation pledge.
When: Tuesday, April 28, outdoor stations for grades K-2 and 5. The stations will be set up from 9-11 a.m. and from 12-1 p.m.
Where: Webster Elementary School, 349 S. Market Blvd., Webster
Why: Throughout the year, students studied the water cycle, watersheds, water habitats, plants and animals that live in the watersheds and water conservation. Teachers used District materials.
Teachers and students completed the project with funding from the District’s Splash! mini-grant program, which offers up to $5,000 per school. The program offer students the opportunity to learn more about water resources through experiential learning projects. This grant program supports the District’s overriding goal of advancing superior stewardship of Florida’s precious water resources.
District Contact: Mary Alice Hogan, communication coordinator, 800-423-1476, ext. 4771
School Contacts: Lynn Thomas and Peggy Furtado, lead teachers, (352) 303-5234