H20 in New Mexico
Experiential EE, LLC oversees the planning, implementation and evaluation of Children’s Water Festivals in the Albuquerque and Rio Rancho areas of New Mexico. Both are two day, off site, water education events that target fourth grade students and their teachers. Our mission is to improve water education at the elementary level by providing local teachers with educational outreach opportunities, resources and materials. The festival goal is to lay the foundation so that students can successfully answer Big Water Questions by the time they finish elementary school. Each year, about 1000 students and 50 teachers from Albuquerque schools, and approximately 650 students and 35 teachers from Rio Rancho schools, participate in five hands-on activities that draw on a wide range of core curriculum areas to address water quality and water conservation issues, especially relating to their community. Our program is unique among Children’s Water Festivals nationwide in that we use comprehensive student and teacher evaluations to improve our program. The results are published each year in the Annual Report.
2007 Water Festival photo galleries: The Importance of H2O Education
The Children’s Water Festival program seeks to provide high quality, effective water education so that participants come to understand that water is an essential and limited resource for all living things. Students have fun while they learn what they can do to protect and conserve water. Our program encourages participants to take action to conserve and protect water!
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The fact is, New Mexico is a desert with an increasing population. The many water demands may soon threaten our quality of life. In only eight years, all fourth graders will become decision makers and voters. They need to be well educated and informed about water and water issues to understand the trade-offs that will face them. 
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 Students learn about erosion in The Rolling River. |
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