Water Cycle Poster – Water makes many stops as it travels in a great circle called The Water Cycle. Help your students learn how this precious resource travels and transforms within our atmosphere. To order posters for your classroom, please contact your local service center.
Satellite Image of South Florida – "Journey Through the K-O-E Watershed"
A two-sided poster with Kissimmee-Okeechobee-Everglades ecosystem information on back. satellite view [PDF] and text & graphics [PDF] (Download only – currently out of print)
Managing Every Drop – This poster illustrates how water is managed throughout the year, to minimize flooding and maximize storage while preserving water quality and natural environments.
Know the Flow [PDF] Conozca el Sistema de Drenaje [PDF]
A two-sided brochure/poster that describes the three levels of flood control – neighborhood, secondary and regional – and offers residents tips for checking/maintaining their neighborhood drainage system. Available in English and Spanish.
Videos
NOTE: All videos are not in stock. Many will require time for duplication.
Cost of the videos is $20 each. Before sending your check, please make your request here in writing, and specify the title/s you want and your postal mailing address.
We Are the SFWMD (12:40 min.) – Features the people in the many jobs that support the District's mission. (1998) Also available in Spanish.
Kissimmee River of Dreams (26:46 min.) – An overview of the historic, once wild river, channelized into the C-38 canal in the 1960s, and current efforts to restore it. (1997) View video online (get RealPlayer plug in)
Run River Run (28:09 min.) – An earlier view of efforts to restore Central Florida's Kissimmee River. (1989)
Shingle Creek: In Search of its True Character (5:40 min) – How citizens and public agencies are working together to return a historic waterway in Orange and Osceola Counties to a more natural-like state. (2000)
Storm of '28 – Recounts events surrounding the 1928 hurricane in Palm Beach County as told by survivors of the storm. (2002)
Hurricane Andrew: After the Storm (12:30 min) – The impact of the storm on the water control systems of the region, and how the District worked to clean up and restore damaged systems. (1992)
WH20 TV News Break (Twenty 2-3 minute "shorts") – Developed to show in schools during morning announcements. Treat 20 topics on south Florida water issues such as conservation, the Everglades, water supply ASR, etc.
Clear Waters: Managing South Florida's Aquatic Plants (23:00 min.) – Profiles efforts to control exotic plants from other regions of the world that clog waterways and choke out native plants and animals.
Lake Worth Lagoon: Saving Natures Nursery (29:30 min.) – A history of the formation of the Lake Worth Lagoon, settlement around the inlet, and the impact that modern development has had on its ecological productivity. (1998)
Youth Educational Resources
The Everglades: An American Treasure – Developed for middle schools and high schools designed to increase awareness and understanding of the Everglades. Developed in conjunction with the Newspapers In Education (NIE) program, Everglades: An American Treasure will bring to the interconnected Kissimmee-Okeechobee-Everglades watershed and the unprecedented state/federal efforts now under way to restore and revitalize this extraordinary ecosystem. (Complete lesson includes student booklet, FCAT ready teacher guide, poster and a special companion video.) View page for workshop dates and locations.
Web Sites
Teaching/Learning About The Everglades – A special educational section on the web site for the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan/CERP (a joint SFWMD and Army Corps of Engineers, and other state, federal and local government partners).
NOTE: most of the sites listed below are technical, and best suited to advanced/high school/college level educators and students
Brochures, Videos & More
Educational Resources
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