Outreach & Programs

Outreach & Programs

Our education team strives to educate student’s understanding about water through engaging and informative programs, supplemental materials, workshops, field trips, teacher in-services and classroom presentations geared from pre-K to college level.

“We need to educate, inform and inspire young people to accept the challenge of making water solutions that are all around us work.”

—Metropolitan Board Chair Adàn Ortega, Jr.

What We Offer

School Presentations

The education team offers a custom water-education presentation or “H2O Show” for students from pre-K to college. These unique, interdisciplinary, hands-on learning opportunities cover California’s water sources, supply, distribution, quality, uses, conservation, and current water challenges. Concepts are taught through experiments, group activities, discussions, videos, games and songs.

Scout Programs Grades K-12

Workshops are offered for the Boy Scouts of America Soil and Water Conservation Merit Badge. The workshop mixes of discussion and hands-on learning to satisfy the seven required badge elements. For scouts who have not yet earned merit badges, our Education Team can create an in-person or online presentation about water conservation or other water topics. Our Girl Scout Protector Patch Program is currently paused.

Field Trips

Unique field trip opportunities are available for teachers and students within Metropolitan’s Southern California service area. field trips are offered at no cost and correlate to various California Content Standards, including Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards.

Teacher Workshops

Our education team is available to come to your faculty meeting to present grade-appropriate programs and materials. We will create an effective presentation with unique interdisciplinary, hands-on learning activities appropriate for all grade levels. Presentations include an overview of Metropolitan and our curriculum offerings and program activities. The amount of time required for in-service, workshop and staff development sessions vary, but will generally range from 30 minutes to about two hours.

Being Waterwise Is:
Annual Student Art Calendar

This program curate’s student art submitted from grades K through 12 that illustrates a conservation message. Dozens of entries from Metropolitan’s member agencies across our six-country service area are judged and featured in the annual calendar, which is distributed to about 13,000 recipients.

Click here to see our 2025 Student Art Calendar.

Calendar Art Contest Rules for 2026