MT Project WET

Project WET (Water Education for Teachers) is a non-profit, interdisciplinary water education program. Every state in the US has a coordinator to enable educators around the country to have access to this program. Project WET is expanding internationally every day! Visit the USA and International web sites to learn more.

Project WET materials and activities are an outstanding resource to supplement your existing curricula and help teachers meet the Montana Standards for Education. The program facilitates and promotes awareness, appreciation, knowledge, and stewardship of water resources through educators’ workshops, water education materials, watershed tours, and youth water festivals.

About WET workshops

WET Activity Guide Project WET Workshops are fun, interactive workshops that train educators in activities that cut across many disciplines in the study of water and water resources- chemistry and physics, life science, earth systems, natural resources management, language arts, history, culture and art. The core of the workshop is centered around the Project WET Curriculum and Activity Guide.

Workshops are fun, hands-on, minds-on and designed for formal and non-formal educators grades K-12. Workshops are presented by trained facilitators- highly experienced classroom teachers and resource professionals with a diverse knowledge of water in Montana and beyond. Workshops are a minimum of 6 hours long and can take place over one or multiple days. The cost of a workshop depends on the length and degree of sponsorship but is typically $25 and includes the curriculum guides, posters, resource materials and training in using the guides. See our brochure on why we use water for educator professional development.

OPI renewal units are available for most workshops and university credits may be available for workshops lasting 2 or more days.

MT WET Facilitators

The Montana Project WET program is successful due in great part to the network of facilitators around the state that work hard to make it that way. Facilitators are classroom teachers, non-formal educators and resource professionals trained to present informational workshops about Project WET and Montana's water resources. Facilitators attend refresher and advanced trainings each year to expand and sharpen their workshop skills.

WET and MT Content Standards
Yellowstone Workshop
The Project WET Curriculum and Activity guide and the WOW! Wonders of Wetlands guide have been correlated to the Montana Science Content standards. Workshop participants are trained in using these guides to help meet state content standards.

Project WET Core Beliefs:

Water moves through living and nonliving systems and binds them together in a complex web of life.
Water of sufficient quality and quantity is important for all water users (energy producers, farmers and ranchers, fish and wildlife, manufacturers, recreationists, rural and urban dwellers).
Wise water management is crucial for providing tomorrow's children with social and economic stability in a healthy environment.
Awareness of and respect for water resources can encourage a personal, lifelong commitment of responsibility and positive community participation

Workshop Participant Quotes:

Excellent resource materials to further develop units. I love the energetic instructors.
- Teacher, Bonner, MT
I will never look at rivers, streams and creeks the same way again...This is truly the best course I have ever taken. - Teacher, Gifted and Talented Program, Missoula Public Schools
I know my time spent with Project WET will be beneficial for my students, this workshop could have easily been extended to two days!
- Teacher, Billings, MT