Activity Books Understanding Water Activity Book | Page 4

Educator, We are pleased to provide your Understanding Water Activity Book. Please feel free to make copies of activities for use with your students. Water is an important topic for students to understand. This volume introduces basic water concepts, supply, uses, water treatment (cleaning), pollution, conservation and wastewater treatment. The intent of this activity book is to help you prepare knowledgeable decision-makers. Vocabulary, reading, writing, geography, math, science and art are reinforced. We’ve included a page that shows the Colorado Academic Standards and Core Curriculum State Standards this book helps you and your students achieve. You will see that learning about water, like learning about agriculture, incorporates many academic subject areas. Each book contains the answers. An evaluation sheet is also included. Please take the time to answer the questions and drop it in the mail to us. Your thoughts and suggestions are helpful to us in our efforts to produce and supply additional educational materials. We hope you and your students enjoy and benefit from this resource. ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE: Wool and Sheep Activity Book (limited quantity) Cattle in Colorado History Colorado Reader subscription includes 30 readers and one teacher’s guide in packets mailed monthly during the school year. The readers address different agriculture, food system and natural resource topics. CFA Comics ~ Watershed Defender is a 16-page publication for middle school students to learn about polluted runoff and how they can work to prevent it. Need a quick lesson? Go to our website: www.growingyourfuture.com and check out the Curriculum Matrix and E-lessons. You can also learn about new resources by signing up for our E-newsletter distributed three times during the school year. ON-GOING PROGRAMS: Food, Fiber & More Agri-CULTURE in the Classroom Summer Institute. Earn 3 continuing education credits while learning about agriculture and innovative ways to incorporate agriculture topics with academic curricula. This is a one week course in June and takes you out of the classroom for hands-on learning. Colorado Literacy Project brings someone involved in agriculture into your classroom to read a book about agriculture to your students. You will learn what they do to help provide you with food, fiber and much more. Learn more about these programs at www.growingyourfuture.com. Colorado Foundation for Agriculture PO Box 10 Livermore, CO 80536 970-818-3308 2 www.growingyourfuture.com