Teachers participate in a miniworkshop that helps them understand the program and assist in accomplishing its goals. As the final project of the program, participating students design an experiment for the Children s Water Festival. They also learn how to use the equipment necessary for the project. After the first workshop, teachers design their own activities using the information they have acquired. The second two-hour session provides the teachers with the opportunity to present and discuss their proposed activity for peer review.
Teachers then return to their schools and implement their projects.
A final workshop will be held at the end of the school year to evaluate the success of the modules. On the fifth day of the workshop, teachers design a plan of action for disseminating the curriculum throughout their school districts. At the conclusion of the workshop, participants receive three of the modules to take to their respective districts for use in training others. Follow-up with participants will be conducted in the spring of 1999. The Watershed Education Project seeks to educate more than 200 students, primarily African American, enrolled in a local underserved school district.