TeacherTECH Science Series: Water Conservation: A Teaching Kit for Today's Environmentally Conscious Classroom

Elementary School, Middle School, High School and Community College Educators are invited to attend our April TeacherTECH Science Series focused on engaging your students in the topic of water conservation.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

4:30pm - 6:30pm

San Diego Supercomputer Center, Auditorium 

University of California, San Diego

Workshop Description

Water conservation is everybody's responsibility, especially now that southern California is experiencing a decrease in supply (drought, delta smelt) and increase in demand (population increase). A considerable fraction of the total water use in California is for irrigation, both in agricultural and residential areas.

The water teaching kit presented in this workshop is a 91-page document complete with teacher's guide, samples, data sheets, and hardware.  Participants will get hands-on experience and tools to determine the amount of water loss (evaporation) from irrigated surfaces. For example, using a simple pan set up outside the classroom, your students can collect data about evaporation. Students can then relate evaporation rates to the average temperature. This activity can also be used to relate evaporation to wind speed, relative humidity, and biome type using local weather observations by the students. In another activity, students design an irrigation system and compare the performance of different strategies.

The workshop will briefly describe the theory behind evaporation and rainfall. Then selected activities from the teaching kit will be demonstrated inside and outside of the workshop classroom.

The teaching kit is available in English and Spanish.

Please join us for an exciting and informative session of hands-on learning presented by Dr. Jan Kleissl, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California, San Diego.

Registration is free. Space is limited. Please contact Ange Mason at 858-534-5064 or amason@ucsd.edu to reserve your space.

For more information on upcoming workshops, please see http://education.sdsc.edu/teachertech