Highlights of the 2003 Southern Maine Children's Water Festival
More About The Day
The festival could not have happened without the generous donation of time by the many natural resource professionals that acted as presenters and exhibitors. These professionals work as: biologists, geologists, paper company engineers, entomologists, water suppliers, computer scientists, foresters, and people from conservation and community groups.
The organizations that donated their talented staff members include:
The Maine Departments of Environmental Protection, Human Services Drinking Water Program, Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, Conservation, Bureau of Parks and Lands, Maine Forest Service, and the State Planning Office. Other groups include: Harding Lawson Associates, Poland Spring Bottling Company, the Pulp and Paperworkers Resource Council, Maine Audubon, The Chewonki Foundation, Bigelow Laboratory, The Da Vinci Experience, the Maine Stewardship Alliance, Portland Water District, the Maine Water Utilities Associaltion, the Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program, Friends of Casco Bay, Lakes Conservancy Institute, Stanton Bird Club, Project Learning Tree, Americorps, Mead Westraco, Regional Waste Systems, University of Southern Maine, and the University of Maine Cooperative Extension.
Not Just a One-Day Experience
The goal of the festival is to emphasize the importance of water to human and ecosystem health, as animal habitat, and its role in weather and other earth processes. Although this day is educational and fun for the students, we also hope to encourage further exploration of the many aspects of water. To this end, teachers are provided with classroom materials- donated books, lesson plans, curricula, posters and other items that come from our many sponsors. Teachers receive these as quiz show prizes and can select additional materials from the teacher resource area in the exhibit hall; prior to the festival teachers are sent lesson plans to help prepare their students for the upcoming festival.
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Aquatic Bird Adaptations Stage Show Entertainer, Jon Gailmor
Students Explore a Touch Tank Students Try Their Hand at
Containing Marine Creatures Making Fish Prints
Students Don Hazardous Material Suits Aquatic Bugs are Found In Streams, What
with Harding Lawson Associates do They Tell Us About Water Quality?
Who Came to the Festival This Year?
- Fairview School, Auburn
- Webster Intermediate School, Auburn
- Benton Elementary School, Benton
- Stevens Brook Elementary, Bridgton
- Drowne Road School, Cumberland
- Dayton Consolidated School, Dayton
- Falmouth Middle School, Falmouth
- P.W. Sugg Middle School, Lisbon Falls
- Phillips Elementary School, Phillips
- Southport Central School, Southport
- Waterford Memorial School, Waterford
- Winthrop Middle School, Winthrop
