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Participation

• Sign up
• Pledge card
• Certificate

Challenge highlights

• 2012–2013 Challenge
• Previous Challenge

Activities

• Reading materials and list
• Make a water cycle wristband
• Create a bountiful butterfly garden
• Make an origami water cup
• Make a water conservation catcher
• Make an edible aquifer
• Water cycle in a bag
• Inflatable globe toss
• How much water are you eating?
• What if
• Conservation posters
• Rap it up
• Water songs
• Where’s the water going
• Water conservation log

Other helpful information

• Florida-Friendly Landscaping™
• Waterwise landscaping
• Plant database
• Interactive home water use survey
• Home water use survey booklet
• Tips for saving water
• Water conservation publications

Take the
Water Conservation Challenge

An entire school can participate, or individual classrooms.
Earn recognition as a guardian of Florida’s water resources.

Accept the challenge.

The challenge:

1. Teachers and students decide which water conservation behaviors they want to adopt, and sign a conservation pledge card.
2. Schools or classrooms conduct at least one in-school activity and one outreach activity of their choosing to explore water conservation.
   For example:
   • Create water conservation posters, and display them around the school.
   • Decorate conservation messages on local grocery store bags, return them for customers to use and/or display in local libraries and businesses.
   • Hold a water walk for students who ask others to sign the water conservation pledge.
   • Conduct a reading and writing exercise around water conservation.
   • Provide water conservation tips in the school’s newsletter or morning announcements.
   • Have each student complete the interactive home water use survey. Then complete the survey again after 30 days of applying conservation changes.
   • Establish in-school conservation goals and conduct water audits. Make necessary repairs to leaks, drips, faucets, restrooms, and document repairs.
   • Create posters, placemats or signs for a local restaurant to display.
   • Plant a waterwise landscape at school or a local business using the waterwise plant database.
   • Ask a local radio station to interview students about water conservation.
   • Explore and implement The Great Water Odyssey^SM program.

Support provided:

1. Pledge card templates online (some stock available on a first-come first-served basis).
2. Certificates of participation recognizing the school or classroom.
3. Online activity ideas.
4. Recognition on the St. Johns River Water Management District’s website.