The last couple of weeks the staff of the NSRWA have teaching 4th and 5th graders in Hull and Cohasset (all 226 of them!) about their watersheds, rivers, and water conservation. In both communities we took the kids to visit their water treatment plants, waste water treatment plants and to visit a rain garden as well as view their local rivers. The kids were fantastic! They really appreciated learning about where their water comes from, how we can conserve and protect it, and where it ends up.
Connecting these kids (and the chaperones!) to their local watershed and rivers gives them a real world understanding of the water cycle they learn about in school. And we provide them with some of the environmental issues that they need to understand in order to become the next generation of river stewards!
We will be continuing these field trips in the fall thoughout the South Shore as part of our Greenscapes education program. If you have a young person in your life interested in the environment (or you would like them to be) please consider having them join our Watershed Explorer's Club online!
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