About the School Program
The need for educating our children about the importance of water conservation — and, just as important, showing them specific ways to conserve — is a critical component to ensuring our future water supply. Our school program provides teachers with educational materials to help educate students about Texas water, while empowering them through hands-on activities that save water and help prevent land subsidence.
Formerly known as the WaterWise program, our new and improved water conservation school program, now called H2O LAB!, provides locally-based water education to 3rd through 6th-grade classrooms in Fort Bend, Galveston, and Harris counties at no cost to the teachers or students. The TEKS-aligned lessons allow teachers to easily integrate the program into their classroom. Material and resources are available through the program’s secure, online web application where teachers have access to on-demand tutorials, can download digital lesson plans in multiple languages, as well as can track student activities and assessment data submitted through the online portal. Both teachers and students have exciting opportunities to win cool prizes as they complete activities and also receive a free take-home water conservation kit filled with products that can be used to save water at home.
The goal of the program is to educate students to value water in our region, provide tools and resources to help families practice water-saving habits, as well as raise awareness about subsidence and ways to prevent it. This program is made available through sponsorships from local water providers and businesses.
Sponsors
If you’re an individual, business, City, Municipal Utility District (MUD), industry, or water industry professional interested in ensuring the availability of our current and future freshwater supply… you’re in the right place. Partnering with HGSD and the award-winning school program will not only provide students and teachers with the educational materials they need but also allow your organization to directly impact the preservation of freshwater sources in our area while earning you groundwater credits.
Please contact our Water Conservation Program if you are a water provider, such as a city or MUD, and would like to establish an interlocal agreement for participation in the school program or learn more by reading our general information letter.
For individuals or businesses interested in sponsoring, please submit a sponsorship form.
Teachers
In our school program, now called H2O LAB!, 3rd-6th grade students learn about the exciting world of water as well as valuable ways to save water and money through in-class education and a take-home kit full of water-efficient products.
The program is not only fun, results-driven, and streamlined, but it is also flexible — a program that has, over the years, evolved to incorporate teacher-requested elements and TEKS alignments.
- Contains hands-on laboratory STEM components
- FREE water conservation kits filled with tools to save water at home for teachers and students
- Teacher guides and student workbooks available in printed and digital versions
- Lessons built for a 30-45 minute instructional time with engaging assignments, activities, and labs
- Easily accessible online web application with on-demand teaching tutorials, downloadable lessons in multiple languages, and the ability to track student work and assessment data
- Rewards and recognition, including teacher mini-grants, a “Top Classroom Performer” prize, and student artwork and video contests!
If you are an educator in Harris, Galveston, or Fort Bend County, sign up today to start taking advantage of this important and FREE program.