These resources are available for your school to recruit parents, faculty, and alumni to help win the Schools for Clean Water Contest. They include informational handouts, text for emails and newsletters, social media posts, extra credit activities, and classroom lesson plans. You can use these materials as is, or you can use them as inspiration to create something unique for your school. Good luck!
2024 School Resources
Informational Handouts
Use these sample handouts at your school.
Flyer for Educators and PTA
Brief your principal, PTA chairs, or other school VIPs with this short and snappy handout.
Tips for Successful Outreach
Wondering how to get your school to the top of the leaderboard? Download this flyer for seven tips on how to run a successful outreach campaign.
Backpack Flyer
Print and send this home with your kids to their parents. Or, use this as inspiration to create something unique for your school!
Outreach Toolkit
Promote the contest in your print or electronic newsletter, or post something to your social media, website or Learning Management System. These samples include text and images to help you get started. Feel free to edit the text however you see fit!
Extra Credit Activities
Students have the chance to help their school earn extra credit pledges! Schools can earn extra credit by submitting a Student Pledge Poster (worth 50 pledges) and for holding a Blue Shirt Day (worth 100 pledges). Schools can only receive credit for each activity once, for a maximum of 150 pledges.
How to submit:
Any eligible school that participates in an extra credit activity and submits the name of the school and a photo of students participating before 9:00 AM ET on Monday October 28, 2024 can earn the equivalent of 50 pledges maximum for a “student pledge poster” activity and/or a 100 pledges maximum for a “blue shirt day” activity.
By submitting photos, the participating school grants the Alliance of Downriver Watersheds permission to use them for marketing and outreach purposes related to the Schools for Clean Water Contest and the ADW’s work.
Classroom Lessons
Help your class learn about stormwater and how it moves through our landscape and schools with these two engaging classroom lesson plans!
Take your class on a Stormwater Walk!
Students will practice their observation skills to study and grade their school’s stormwater infrastructure. In the first activity, Stormwater Tally, students will walk around their school, identifying and recording features that can affect the amount of stormwater runoff. In the second activity, Downspout Survey, students will take a closer look at how their school’s downspouts can affect the amount of stormwater runoff. A detailed lesson plan is provided.
Model a watershed with your class!
In this lesson, students will create a watershed model to observe how water runs through a landscape and how pollutants can get from our homes, streets, and schools into our rivers and lakes. A detailed lesson plan is provided.