Education

Learn more and explore! Engage with ReNUWIt-themed content at home or in the classroom using these resources developed and compiled by ReNUWIt researchers and program participants.

ReNUWIt modules and lesson plans

Audience: K-12

• Biomagnification
• Follow the River
• Revegetation
• Stormwater
• Taste Test – What’s in Your Water
• Water Cycle
• Water Quality
• Water Reuse
• Water Use

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Media created by ReNUWIt students

Podcast

Water You Talking About podcast

Audience: General public

Joe Charbonnet, Skuyler Herzog, Scott Miller, and Zach Stoll (alum) discuss water issues and interview experts in the field.

Documentary video

Tapped Out: A documentary about water

Audience: General public

Part of ReNUWIt alum Dave Vuono’s PhD dissertation, Tapped Out examines water issues in the American West.

Engineering Streambeds: Naturalizing the Urban Landscape

Audience: General public

Produced by Joe DelNero

Colorado School of Mines researchers Dr. Chris Higgins, PhD students Brittany Halpin and Andrea Portmann are looking at integrating natural alternatives to the built environment to help purify and clean groundwater supplies (BEST Testbed). 

Animated videos

Natural Water Treatment in the Hyporheic Zone

Audience: General public

Produced by Brittnee Halpin
First place in 2020 ReNUWIt video competition

The World without Environmental Engineers

Audience: Grades 5-7

Produced by Jordy Wolfand, Kim Quesnel, Patricia Gonzales, and Jon Bradshaw.
Honorable Mention in the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) 2015 Student Video Competition

Reclaiming drinking water from urban stormwater

Audience: Grades 6-8

Produced by Jordy Wolfand
First Place in “Reclaim is…” 2015 video competition
Go Behind the Scenes of the video on reclaim’s blog

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Materials created by ReNUWIt RETs

Video

Stormwater: Friend or Foe?

Audience: Grades 9-12

Produced by Monique de Brito Guedes (Berkeley High School)
For ideas on how to incorporate the video into a lesson, see Monique’s Lesson Plan Got Stormwater?

iBooks

Learn Advanced Chemistry: Liquid Chromatography
Learn Advanced Chemistry: Spectrophotometry

Audience: Grades 9-12

Produced by Aaron Glimme (Berkeley High School)