7th Grade Students Increase Awareness of Water Quality

EPA Region 7 Administrator Karl Brooks will be at Brody Middle School this Friday, Oct. 3, to visit with seventh-grade students about EPA’s role in protecting water quality. Brooks’ visit will include a role-play exercise featuring six groups of students representing the EPA, scientists, farmers, concerned citizens, the Des Moines Water Works and non-profits. Afterwards, a group of students will participate in a water-quality testing exercise at Water Works Park.

Approximately 120 seventh graders at Brody have been studying about water quality, learning about Iowans’ water pollution reduction efforts, Iowa’s nutrient reduction strategy and best management agricultural practices to improve water quality. Because Brody is an International Baccalaureate candidate school, learning is incorporated with an understanding of how individuals fit into the world and how their actions affect others.