What has not changed is that the South Dakota Discovery Center will supply educators, out of school time staff, and youth program leaders with kits to monitor a local water body. To receive a classroom set of kits complete the online training which will take approximately 20 minutes. At the end of the training, you will be taken to a request form for kits. By filling out and submitting the form, you ascertain you have completed the training and agree to submit your data to the Challenge database as well as complete a short annual report about monitoring activities.
And that's it!
Request your kits soon in order to receive them by April 1. A limited number of kits are available; first come, first served.
Don't need kits? We still invite you to participate in the World Water Monitoring Challenge with your students. As long as you collect one of the following parameters - Dissolved Oxygen, pH, water clarity/turbidity or temperature - you can enter your data into the World Water Monitoring Challenge Database.
The World Water Monitoring Challenge is an excellent way to enrich technology use in your classroom. Some methods are:
- Use Google Earth or GPS to find the latitude/longitude of the monitoring site.
- Have students enter their data into the online database.
- Create online photo documentation of the monitoring site for comparison in future years.
- Invite a water quality professional to participate with your students, demonstrating probes and meters.
If you would like a little more training in bringing the World Water Monitoring Challenge to your site, you may wish to attend one of our summer professional development classes. We will be reviewing the World Water Monitoring Challenge in Earth Systems K-5, 21st Century Skills for Environmental Literacy and WET Roundup. Monitoring will also be included in Lake & Stream Ecology.
