Paige Perry Presents to Hemphill Co. UWCD

Paige Perry (Hemphill Co.) recently presented to sponsor Hemphill County Underground Water Conservation District about her summer 4-H2O Leadership Academy experience, and how she has been serving as ambassador since then. Thank Paige!

Carson Manning Continues Testing Water at Woman Hollering Creek

Carson Manning (Guadalupe Co.) continued monitoring water quality at Woman Hollering Creek near Seguin. Carson reported "It had a pH of 7, conductivity of 1290, and the DO titrations were 6.9 and 7.1. The depth was at it's normal of 10 centimeters, water temperature was 15°C, and the air temperature was 13°C. It was flowing at its normal rate, little algae cover, had a light green color, with no objects on the water surface. The water was calm and clear, with no odor. It's been about 2 weeks since the last significant rainfall, with just 0.05 inches of rain within 3 days." Excellent work Carson!

Pipe Game Activity Instructions Now Available on Shared Google Drive

The Pipe Game is a hands-on activity that helps teach students how water gets from its source to our homes, and the importance of conservation. This activity is recommended for grades 2-5 and is best suited for outdoors. In this activity, students work together to construct a PVC pipeline to carry water from a well to a home. The entire activity can be done in 15 minutes, so it is a great activity for rotating groups of students during a water fair or ag. day event.

The complete instructions can be downloaded from the shared Google Drive folder, https://drive.google.com/open?id=1yxRSriWrRzYShcvjJUXNn6xA48DmvX3u '2019 4-H Water Ambassadors' > 'Games & Activities'.

Madeline Brown Presents at 4-H Club Meeting

Madeline Brown (Wilbarger Co.) presented a slideshow highlighting her experiences as a Water Ambassador to her county's 4-H members at their November meeting. Madeline also shared what she has learned about water during her ambassadorship, and encouraged youth to apply to the program. Thanks Madeline!

Franklin ISD STEAM Night a Success

Each year, Franklin ISD has a STEAM Night for elementary students where they get to do many science and art activities. For the third year, 4-H Water Ambassadors set up a booth to teach about water. This year, Kendal Workman and Annika Stevens (Leon Co.), Bailey Halbert (Brazos Co.) and Gabriel Ramthun (Milam Co.) volunteered. They did a great job leading activities, including 'water drop on a penny' and creating beaded bracelets with colors representing a different part of the water cycle. It can be a real challenge to make learning fun for the little ones, but the ambassadors pulled it off! Great job guys!

Engage Audiences with On-line Water Jeopardy

If you have ever seen Jeopardy on television, you know it can be both fun, competitive and educational. Through jeopardylabs.com, we have designed a couple of on-line Jeopardy games that you can now use for youth audiences. This game requires an internet connection and a way to project the game on a screen or monitor and is best suited for a school classroom or club meeting.

To get started, go to https://jeopardylabs.com/118825 . You will see the following screen listing two game options: Water Jeopardy - Level 1 and Water Jeopardy - Level 2. Level 1 questions are primarily designed for grades 3-6, while Level 2 questions are more suited for older audiences.

After you have selected a game appropriate for your audience, you will see the following screen. Here you are able to select from 1 to 16 teams. For groups of 20 or fewer students, I suggestion dividing the group into two teams. On this screen you can also Print off the questions and answers to prepare. Please DO NOT Edit. When ready press Start to begin.

The Jeopardy board is shown below. There are five categories and five questions for each category. Ask one team to select a category and point value to get a question. Note that as the point value gets higher, the questions become more challenging. Click on the point value box to reveal the question. The question is actually a statement that the student or team must answer in the form of a question.

For example, if the statement is "In this process, water travels in a sequence from the air to the earth, and then returns to the atmosphere", the student must answer in the form of a question, "What is the water cycle?".

If the answer is correct, you can award points by clicking on the Team 1 "+" sign. If incorrect, then you can either leave the score the same, or click on the "-" sign to deduct points. Alternate back and forth among teams to prompt for category and point value choices.

I strongly recommend practicing beforehand to get comfortable with navigating the controls (Esc button), (Spacebar), etc.

David Smith

Water Ambassadors Lead at Nueces County Ag Awareness Days

Nueces County 4-H Water Ambassadors Reagan Fox, Grant Miller, Jaxon Grove and Andy Vela assisted staff from the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and gave presentation at the local Ag Awareness Days. Approximately 1,500 students in the county participated! Way to go ambassadors!

Gabriel Ramthun Presents at Milam County Extension Continuing Education Meeting

This summer, Tier II Ambassador Gabriel Ramthun shared his summer academy experience at the Milam County Extension Continuing Education Meeting. Gabriel put together a PowerPoint presentation with pictures of the academy and talked about what he saw, did and learned during the trip.

4-H Water Ambassadors Exhibit at Bell County Water Symposium

For the past three years, the 4-H Water Ambassadors Program has been invited to exhibit at the Bell County Water Symposium in Killeen. The one day symposium is hosted and organized by our sponsor - Clearwater Underground Water Conservation District. This year we had five water ambassadors participate, including Seth Jones (McLennan Co.), Leigha Adair (Hill Co.), Luke Read (Bell Co.), Sarah Wood (Bell Co.) and Ava Snelson (Williamson Co.). Thanks to all who were able to participate!

Lily Ford Presents at Bess Knapp Daycare

Lily Ford (Hidalgo Co.) presented to pre-K children and adults at Bess Knapp Daycare. She talked about aquifers, where our water comes from, how much water we use, and how to conserve water in our everyday lives. Great job Lily!

William Wright Presents to Inez 4-H Club

William Wright (Victoria Co.) recently presented to Inez 4-H about the importance of water, where it originates, and how it gets from source to tap. William also led a discussion on what things we can do to conserve water. Participants offered many suggestions such as installing water faucets that turn off automatically and cutting back on shower time.

Workman & Stevens Serve at Leon County Ag Fair

Kendal Workman and Annika Stevens (Leon Co.) assisted Mr. David Bailey - General Manger with sponsor Mid-East Texas Groundwater Conservation District at the Leon County Ag Fair. They taught 4th grade students about home water conservation, and assisted Mr. Bailey teach about aquifers, how groundwater flows, and about contamination using Mr. Bailey's aquifer model.

William Wright Teaches Youth at South Texas Farm & Ranch Show

William Wright (Victoria Co.) taught 3rd and 4th grade students about erosion and stream flow processes at the South Texas Farm and Ranch Show. William used the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension stream trailer, which simulates erosion, deposition and formation of deltas. He also talked to the students about his experience as 4-H Water Ambassador. Way to serve William!

Leigha Adair Assist Clearwater UWCD at North Belton High School

Leigha Adair (McLennan Co.) recently teamed with staff from sponsor Clearwater Underground Water Conservation District at North Belton High School. Leigha helped teach 7th graders about aquifers, water use, and runoff from different surfaces. Nice work Leigha!

New Resources Available on How to Report Education/Service Hours

During last weekend’s 4-H Water Ambassadors Fall Retreat, we spent some time discussing how to properly log your service/education hours, and the importance of providing complete and comprehensive information so that your activities can be promoted more widely.



There a couple new resources now available on the shared Google Drive folder (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1yxRSriWrRzYShcvjJUXNn6xA48DmvX3u) in the ‘Service Hours Summary’ subfolder. These are: 1) How to Properly Log Service and Education Hours PowerPoint, and 2) How to Properly Log Service/Education Hours on Qualtrics Word document.



Please review both as these include the detail we are looking for in your activity reports.

Paige Perry Presents at Wheeler County Ag Day

Paige Perry (Hemphill Co.) taught 4th and 5th graders about the water cycle at Wheeler County Ag Day. Students from Wheeler, Shamrock, Fort Elliot, and Kelton attended the event. Paige led an interactive labeling activity and had students create a beaded bracelet representing different processes in the water cycle. Very creative Paige!