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Water You Doing CD-ROM

Water quality education goes high tech with an interactive and educational CD-ROM that helps students build a sense of respect for our Seattle and Puget Sound natural water resources and develop clean water ethics within their school, families, communities, and neighborhoods.


To order
The CD-ROM is available for use at the Seattle Public Library, and to teachers within Seattle Public Utilities’ service area free of charge and to others for a nominal fee.

For copies of "Water You Doing?" the CD, contact Billie Fisher at (206) 615-1282, billie.fisher@seattle.gov or :

Seattle Public Utilities
700 5th Avenue
P.O. Box 34018
Seattle, Washington 98104-4018





The CD-ROM includes

  • • the award-winning "Water You Doing?" video (© McKenna/Gottlieb Producers Inc. 1991), a fun and fast-paced 35 minutes featuring Bill Nye, Seattle TV weather forecasters, the Flying Karamozov Brothers, John Keister, and others;
  • • games and interactive activities; and
  • • career profiles associated with video topics.

Critics are raving
Beatrice Cox, Secondary Schools Science Curriculum Coordinator for the Seattle School District: "I’m pleased to offer our teachers a new learning tool for their students that focuses on Seattle and Puget Sound water resource issues using multi-media computer technology. Teachers are responding enthusiastically."


Credits
"Water You Doing?" The CD was developed by SPU and Good Northwest Corporation, with funding assistance provided by the Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team’s Public Involvement and Education (PIE) Fund.


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