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Spring -Summer 1995 WATER TALK Page 7 ater duca#ion History ade education and WET activities at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Office in Morris. by Tara Biumer DNR Volunteer "Aprll showers bring May flowers", the springtime saying goes. However, although the workshop was WET, the weather the day before Earth Day was sunny and dry! April 21 was the historic day of the very first Project WET (Water Education for Teachers) workshop implemented in Minnesota. Twenty participants. including K-12 teachers, SWCD managers. and Environmental Learning Center (ELC) staff dove into six hours of water Where will the water you drink. this morning be tomorrow? This is one of the questions addressed in the activity The Incredible Journey where students identify different states of water and act out its movement through the water cycle. This was one of the most popular activities of the day where everyone took on the role of a water molecule and, with the role of a die, traversed through the many areas water can move, including clouds, plants, animals. rivers, oceans, lakes, ground water, soil and glaciers. Players then wrote short stories on water's incredible journey. Some of the activities included Idea Pools, a sharing of ideas, interests, feelings and experiences related to water, Dilemma Derby, an activity to identify and debate the pros and cons of different solutions to water management issues; A Grave Mistake, a mystery game where students analyze data to trace the flow of arsenic in groundwater and identify the culprit polluter, and Salt Marsh Players, arole-play activity where students physically enact the behavioral strategies of marine salt marsh organisms with the changing tides. Workshop participants also viewed the Groundwater Flow Model to see how water and contaminants move beneath the earth's surface anal how water is affected by pumping wells anal storage tanks. All in all, the first Minnesota Project WET workshop was a tidal wave of fun. If you would like information on. attending a Project WET workshop or helping establish a facilitation site for future workshops, please contact: Peder Otterson, Coordinator DNR Project Wet Division of Waters 500 Lafayette Road St. Paul., MN 55155-4032 The Project. 4VET workshops help simplify water resource education. "The Incredible Journey" teaches a basic understanding of the Hydrologic t:ycls.