With their 2022 project – “Know Your H2O” – our students promoted water awareness and conservation through various learning and community outreach activities.

Spend some time here – there are plenty of resources below for you to enjoy and learn from.

Thanks to the following sponsors for their support:

The Jane Goodall Institute’s Roots and Shoots Program

& Pirates Cove in Englewood, CO

Enjoy a few of the entries from our Know Your H2O Student Contest:

Sammy – Painting, Bear Creek Lake Park
Gabriel – Origami/Mixed Media, Chatfield State Park
Josie – Fashion, Water
Matthew – Photography, Bear Creek Lake Park
Colin – Sculpture, Bear Creek Lake Park
Micah – Drawing, Soda Lake at Bear Creek Lake Park
Tommy – Painting, Lake Michigan
Erin – Drawing, Bear Creek Lake Park
Wyatt – Fly Tying, Fly Fishing

Contest Deadlines:

Oct 10 for Know Your H2O and Oct 14 for Water ’22

We invite all students to create a work for Water ’22 that reflects a place, thing, or activity connected to water that they cherish within their watershed or river basin. Students may choose to enter any of ten different categories, from writing to photography and engineering to music.

With one entry, students may enter the Water ’22 Contest AND GMAH’s own contest.

Participants in the GMAH Know Your H2O contest will all:

  • Receive a gift certificate to Colorado State Parks OR Bear Creek Lake Park (student’s choice) – good for park passes, gift shop merchandise, fishing licenses, etc.
  • Be entered in a drawing for Four Day Passes to Pirates Cove for the 2023 season.

Click here for official entry rules and Water ’22 prize list.

Learning

Where Our Water Comes From
(Student-Led Art Tutorial)
(Student-Led Art Tutorial)

Below: Photos from tour of Golden Water Treatment Plant

Community Service and Outreach

Above: Orientation with Jeffco Open Space for our trash and fishing line pickup at Crown Hill Park.

How You Can Help

Protect animals and clean up our waterways by picking up discarded fishing line. You can take it to a Bass Pro Shops or Cabela’s. They will ship is to Berkley Fishing in Iowa. Berkley Fishing melts the line down into raw plastic pellets that can be made into other plastic products including tackle boxes, spools for line, fish habitats, and toys.

Know Your H2O Art Display

At Belmar Library in Lakewood, Colorado

In this collaborative student art display, our students invited the community to think of all the ways we use water, the wildlife that relies on it, and how you might help conserve and protect this valuable resource.

Background

Each year, Green Mountain Area Homeschoolers work together on a service-learning project through the Jane Goodall Institute’s Roots and Shoots program. Our students choose their project, learn, and then share knowledge and opportunities to help in our community.