Wastewater education: additional resources

Wastewater field trip materials
Class resources, programs, & curriculum
Recommended films & books
Other field trips
Interships, service learning, & technical training
How to help -- individual responsibility
Environmental education resources
Related environmental topics

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Wastewater field trip materials

• Pre-field trip questions grades 4-8 -- student worksheet, teacher guide
• Pre-field trip questions grades 7-college -- student worksheet, teacher guide
• South Plant and West Point treatment process worksheet -- all grades, student worksheet and teacher guide
• Map of local water systems, wastewater/drinking water/aquifers/WRIA watershed basins
• Wastewater treatment processes
  • South Plant
    • Treatment process handout
  • West Point 
    • Treatment process handout
  • Brightwater 
    • Treatment process handout
  • Technical fact sheets
    • South Plant (to be provided)
    • West Point (to be provided)
    • Brightwater
• Wastewater Treatment in King County overview -- presentation with photos (to be provided)
• Thirst -- power point presentation on water scarcity
• Watercycle poster
• Wastewater; Lott Activities Book
• Biosolids -- 'the ultimate in recycling'
  • Poster
  • Curriculum (3.1 MB)
• Duwamish poster (7.3 MB)
  • Front side: From your house to the river—how the Duwamish gets “dirty”
  • Back side: HELP MAKE IT CLEAN... you decide how dirty...

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Classroom resources, programs, & curriculum

• King County Hazardous Waste school programs
• King County Green Schools Program -- water conservation
• Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust Biosolids Curriculum
• National Environmental Education Week -- K-12
• Project WET Curriculum and Activity Guide -- K-12
• Science, Water, and Civics Curriculum -- grades 6-8
• WaterAid America Curriculum -- K-12
• Water.org Curriculum -- K-12
• Water on the Web -- highschool and first year college students

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Recommended films & books

Note: the following book titles are avalible from the King County Library System.

• The Big Necessity: the Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why it Matters by Rose George, New York: Metropolitan Books, 2008.
• Blue Covenant: the Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water by Maude Barlow, New York: New Press, 2008.
• Everyone Poops by Gomi Taro Brooklyn, N.Y.: Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 1993.
• Frontline: Poisoned Waters (Documentary, 2009)
• Invisible Allies: Microbes that Shape Our Lives by Jeanette Farrell, New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005.
• Liquid Assets: The Story of Our Water Infrastructure (Documentary, 2008)
• Toilets of the World by Morna Gregory & Sian James, London: Merrell, 2006.
• Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It by Robert Glennon, Washington, DC: Island Press, 2009.
• Water: A Special Issue by National Geographic 2010.

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Other field trips & public tours

• Cedar Hills Landfill -- learn about what happens to garbage after it leaves your home and what happens to all the trash collected at the treatment plant
• Cedar Grove Composting -- see where yard waste and foodscraps end up
• Cedar River Watershed -- find out where most of King County gets their drinking water
• Islandwood Environmental Center -- check out their "Living Machine" and composting toilets
• Mountains to Sound Greenway -- check out their 'Greening up the Greenway" program, using Biosolids to help with reforestation

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Internships, service learning & technical training

• Wastewater Treatment Division Career Opportunities
• Educational resources for wastewater jobs
• AWWA (American Water Works Association)
• WEF (Water Environment Federation)

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How to help -- individual responsibility

• What can I do?
  • Source control
  • Water conservation

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Environmental education resources

• City of Seattle education resources
• E3 Washington
• Northwest Environmental Education Council
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Education Resources (EPA)
• Washington Environmental Counsel
• Washington State Department of Ecology for teachers

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Related environmental topics

• Climate change and energy
• Common water measurements (USGS)
• Drinking water sources and supply
• King County environmental resources
• Marine environments
• Nonpoint source pollution (EPA)
• Physical, biological and chemical water treatment techniques
• Resource recovery
• Water-related public health (CDC)
• Wetlands

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