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Joined
the Team WET Schools team: August
2005
Team
WET Schools Campus Coordinator:
Billie Rinaldi, Thalia Stearnes
Number
of WET in the City Teachers:
24
Student
Water Stewardship Project: Water-themed
Festival and Afterschool Programming
   
During
an on-site August 2005 WET in the City Educator Training Workshop,
Rosenberg teachers worked together in groups to develop a
piece of waterfront property. Without prior guidance, they
incorporated all sorts of land-use facilities into their plans
without regard for potential pollution and who is up or downstream
from their lots.
During
a follow-up demonstration and discussion, teachers realized
that pollution in a waterway is always a "Sum of the
Parts." How land adjacent
to waterways and in a watershed is used directly impacts the
water quality
experienced by those downstream...and we all live downstream.
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Rosenberg
Elementary School's Team WET Schools Water Festival was held
on Thursday, May 25, 2006 |
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During
Rosenberg's Team WET Schools dedication ceremony, Capt. Michael
Raymo
of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (U.S.A.C.E.) presented CEE
with a Memorandum of Understanding detailing guidelines for
a national partnership between U.S.A.C.E. and CEE. |
U.S.A.C.E.
representatives pose with Rosenberg Elementary School students
as they proclaim their pride at becoming the first Team WET
School in Galveston, TX. |
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Josetta
Hawthorne, CEE, Jennifer Paschke, CEE, and Kristine Brown, U.S.A.C.E.
pose with Principal Billie Rinaldi and Rosenberg students following
Rosenberg Elementary School's dedication as a Team WET School.. |
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Jackie
Cole, Galveston City Councilwoman, District 6, shared her kayak
handling and safety expertise with Rosenberg students. |
Rosenberg
student experts helped festival visitors discover the different
components
of habitat. |
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Students
demonstrate the capacity of wetlands to store water and mitigate
flooding in "Capture, Store, and Release." |
A
young student checks to see if her catch is legal at a fishing
demonstration station. |
A
student sets up for another round of "Are You Me?,"
a matching game where participants match up animal mothers with
their young. |
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A
student expert helps a younger schoolmate discover the cohesive
and adhesive properties of water in "H2Olympics." |
Rosenberg
preschoolers learn what portion
of the human body is composed of water in
a playground adaptation of "Aqua Bodies." |
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Students
wait for a chance to cool off on one of two water slides. Cadets
from the U.S. National Guard Seaborne ChalleNGe program volunteered
to chaperone this popular station. |
Kristine
Brown, Park Ranger with U.S.A.C.E., helped teach students about
life jacket safety and proper fit in a Life Jacket Relay race. |
Staff
from Moody Gardens,
a popular Galveston education attraction, helped festival visitors
experience
the peril to seabirds and aquatic wildlife posed by discarded
fishing line and plastic debris.. |
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CEE
staff present Enviroscape, a non-point source pollution demonstration
model. |
Rosenberg's
"H2Olympics" crew take a break to pose for the camera. |
