{"id":19411,"date":"2023-08-07T12:14:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T16:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/news\/?p=15224"},"modified":"2023-08-07T12:14:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T16:14:55","slug":"keeping-water-renewable-lesson-plan-receives-national-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/keeping-water-renewable-lesson-plan-receives-national-award\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cKeeping Water Renewable\u201d Lesson Plan Receives National Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apexawards.com\/winners-2023\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">APEX Awards for Publication Excellence<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> have honored <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pbsnc.pbslearningmedia.org\/resource\/keeping-water-renewable-lesson-plan\/pbs-nc-science-ncdcr-educational-resources\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keeping Water Renewable: 5E Lesson<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a free, standards-aligned lesson on renewable water for middle and high school students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 35th annual APEX national awards program cited the Keeping Water Renewable lesson as one of three recipients in the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Campaigns, Programs &amp; Plans &#8211; Education &amp; Training<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> category.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Keeping Water Renewable lesson was developed by Christy Perrin of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wrri.ncsu.edu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">North Carolina Water Resources Research Institute<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">North Carolina Sea Grant<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Paula Edelson of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbsnc.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">PBS North Carolina<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Lauren Daniel of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deq.nc.gov\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and Beth Snoke Harris of NC Inquiry Collaborative Network, with funding from the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources and the Pulitzer Center.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cA <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41561-019-0374-y\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">recent study<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> showed that 85% of water cycle depictions leave out human interaction completely! We created this lesson plan to provide activities that educators could use to refresh their teaching about water, and to prepare middle or high school students to think critically about how our water is used and managed in a changing climate,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d explains Christy Perrin, sustainable waters and communities coordinator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Through multiple interactive components, the blended lesson provides a thorough explanation of the water cycle, including how climate change and human interference affect water quality and availability. It contains enough material for 10 to 12 class periods and includes an animation, \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pbsnc.pbslearningmedia.org\/resource\/what-makes-water-renewable-video\/keeping-water-renewable-animation-pbs-nc-science-ncdcr-educational-resources\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keeping Water Renewable<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u201d an interactive depiction of \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pbsnc.pbslearningmedia.org\/resource\/the-real-water-cycle-interactive-lesson\/pbs-nc-science-ncdcr-educational-resources\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The REAL Water Cycle<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u201d and a short documentary from PBS Learning Media, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pbsnc.pbslearningmedia.org\/resource\/resisting-the-flood-video\/teach-sci-nc\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Resisting The Flood<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, featuring Princesville, North Carolina\u2019s approach to combating flooding. The lesson is available at no cost on the <a href=\"https:\/\/pbsnc.pbslearningmedia.org\/resource\/keeping-water-renewable-lesson-plan\/pbs-nc-science-ncdcr-educational-resources\/\">PBS Learning Media website<\/a>. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2021, the team <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wrri.ncsu.edu\/watershed-wisdom-lesson-plan-receives-national-award\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">received an APEX Grand Award<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pbsnc.pbslearningmedia.org\/resource\/watershed-wisdom\/lesson-plan-unc-tv-science\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Watershed Wisdom 5E Lesson<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for grades 3-5.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">##<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s APEX Awards for Publication Excellence have honored Keeping Water Renewable: 5E Lesson, a free, standards-aligned lesson on renewable water for middle and high school students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":19412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1396,1407],"tags":[],"_ncst_magazine_issue":[],"displayCategory":null,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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