Now in its second year, GSWA's Environmental Education and Outreach program has increased the number of teachers and students it reaches through its teacher-training workshops and classroom presentations. In 1999-2000, GSWA offered four Project WET (Water Education for Teachers) workshops to area teachers, and visited over 15 area classrooms to teach about sources of water pollution.

Project WET (Water Education for Teachers) is a nationally distributed collection of innovative, water-related K-12 activities that are interactive, hands-on, easy to use – and fun for both students and teachers.

By attending a Project WET workshop, teachers receive a Curriculum and Activity Guide, specific information about the Great Swamp watershed, and the Project WET Matrix showing which NJ Core Curriculum Content Standards are covered in each activity. Over 40 teachers or informal educators (Girl or Boy Scout leaders, naturalists and 4-H leaders) attended GSWA-sponsored workshops this year, and are now sharing the ideas and activities they learned with their students.

In addition to teaching teachers, GSWA has reached over 150 students directly. GSWA staff and volunteers bring GSWA’s "watershed model" to area classrooms to demonstrate how a watershed works, and show the difference between point and non-point source pollution.