4-H2O Replenish Project - Water Conservation
The 4-H2O Replenish project is supported by the Coca-Cola Foundation and the National 4-H Council. Wisconsin is one of four states whose 4-H program received funding to implement water conservation projects.
4-H’ers will learn how to implement water conservation techniques in their homes and yards, share their knowledge with their communities, and become stewards of Wisconsin’s water resources. This is the Wisconsin website for the project.
The 2010 4-H National Youth Science Day focused on water quality. In the experiment, 4-H2O, youth learned about carbon dioxide and discovered how we as a nation can reduce our environmental impact. This site, 2010 4-H National Youth Science Day, has more information and highlights the activities that were part of the experiment,
Water Conservation in Your Home Challenge – For all youth in grades 3–8
Download and complete the activities in the Water Conservation in Your Home booklet (
 1 MB, 23 pages). Fill out the questions and mail in the last page to receive a Water Conservation Challenge certificate and a cool tool to help you continue to conserve water in your home! (while supplies last)
Service-Learning Projects
Rain Barrel Projects
Youth in the following counties are taking part in building and using rain barrels:
| Bayfield |
Burnett |
| Crawford |
Dunn |
| Jackson |
Juneau |
| Marquette |
Monroe |
| Price |
Sawyer |
Rain Garden Projects
Youth in the following counties are building demonstration rain gardens:
| Ashland |
Monroe |
| Burnett |
Sawyer |
| Dunn |
Walworth |
See the 2010 Evaluation Results ( 261 KB, 2 pages)
Information for County Project Directors
Project Leader Materials
 Conducting a Service-Learning Project (432 KB, 6 pages) - This guide will help you conduct a service-learning project for Wisconsin 4-H2O Replenish. Includes information on the project, a project leader job description, learning objectives for youth, components of environmental service-learning, reflection activities, and how to recognize youth for their accomplishments.
 Youth Certificate Template (954 KB, powerpoint slide) - Use to make certificates for youth working on rain barrel or rain garden projects.
 Youth Evaluation (11 KB, 1 page, Word document) - Sample questions
Final Project Evaluation (33 KB, 1 page, Word document) - Information each county needs to turn in at the end of their project.
Links to Curriculum Resources
Rain Gardens Curriculum from UW-Arboretum’s Earth Partnership for Schools - This great curriculum will help you to teach about rain gardens and use best practices for building one.
Stormwater Curriculum from Dane County Office of Lakes & Watersheds - Use this curriculum to teach about why we are focusing on catching rain water with rain barrels and rain gardens.
Science Inquiry Process - Links to a different page on this STEM website; see bottom of the page for Science Inquiry information.
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