Posted by From the Dallas South Newswire (KERA)
With a new school year just around the corner, KERA is offering online curriculum and interactive materials designed for fifth grade science teachers and students who are learning about the importance of water! The downloadable curriculum and interactive modules at TrinityRiverTexas.org/education are designed to teach students about water quality, water cycles and watersheds through classroom experiments and activities. The educational materials are made available free of charge as part of KERA’s Living with the Trinity multimedia project.
Visitors to TrinityRiverTexas.org can also explore the geography, ecology and cultural history of the Trinity River through multimedia stories featured on the website. Photographs, archival film footage and videos tell the story of the river’s history, flood prevention efforts and the latest developments regarding the environmental quality of the river.
The documentary Living with the Trinity is also posted on the website. Produced and directed by KERA’s Rob Tranchin, this one-hour program chronicles an important environmental battle of the early 1970s over plans to transform the Trinity River into a barge canal from North Texas to the Gulf of Mexico. The program features interviews with former Fort Worth Congressman, U.S. Speaker of the House and canal proponent, Jim Wright, and former Dallas Congressman and canal opponent, Alan Steelman. Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist Bob Ray Sanders and Lee Cullum, host of KERA’s business program CEO, offer insight from their perspectives as reporters who covered these issues for KERA-TV.
Living with the Trinity is funded by a leadership grant from The Meadows Foundation with additional support provided by The Dixon Water Foundation
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