Introduction
Portland Headlight, Fort Williams, Cape Elizabeth, Maine
Discovering Water, a collaborative effort between Windham High School students, the Portland Water District, and other support staff, was written to share information about water in Maine and the world. This book is one tool for you to use to understand some scientific principles about Earth’s water, watersheds, and the connection water has to all locations on, in, and around our Earth’s surface.
Students from Mr. Riddle’s Honors Earth Science class researched information about water in Maine and around the world to publish this book. Those students, Julia Rand, Haley Stedt, Dakota Ennis, Emily Algeo, Sam Shoberg, and Reine (Gareth) Frechette, worked together to make this book beneficial to all. Other contributing student authors, illustrators, designers, and photographers were Bailey Card, Olivia Verrill, and Austin Verrill.
To publish this book, a small group of dedicated 9th, 10th, and 11th graders required a detailed plan and the support of many professionals. This team of professionals, Amy Denecker (WHS Librarian), Sarah Plummer (Environmental Education Coordinator at PWD), Dorothy Hall-Riddle (consulting librarian), Deborah Debiegun (Educator at Cumberland County Soil and Water Conservation District), Stacy Smith (Art Director), and a few others supported Jeff Riddle’s (Honors Earth Science teacher) team of students to publish this book that will be used by many. Our special thanks goes to J.S. McCarthy Printing for their generous support of this project and their belief in our mission, which will ensure that this book finds its way into the hands of even more children than it otherwise might have.
By reading this book, we hope you learn about the incredible chemical compound that makes up water and all it does for life on Earth. And, most important, we hope you take the knowledge and put it to use in your daily lives so that Earth’s water, which comes around and goes around, stays available, clean, and safe so all may bene t for generations to come.
Jeff Riddle & the Discovering Water Publishing Team
May 2015
Students from Mr. Riddle’s Honors Earth Science class researched information about water in Maine and around the world to publish this book. Those students, Julia Rand, Haley Stedt, Dakota Ennis, Emily Algeo, Sam Shoberg, and Reine (Gareth) Frechette, worked together to make this book beneficial to all. Other contributing student authors, illustrators, designers, and photographers were Bailey Card, Olivia Verrill, and Austin Verrill.
To publish this book, a small group of dedicated 9th, 10th, and 11th graders required a detailed plan and the support of many professionals. This team of professionals, Amy Denecker (WHS Librarian), Sarah Plummer (Environmental Education Coordinator at PWD), Dorothy Hall-Riddle (consulting librarian), Deborah Debiegun (Educator at Cumberland County Soil and Water Conservation District), Stacy Smith (Art Director), and a few others supported Jeff Riddle’s (Honors Earth Science teacher) team of students to publish this book that will be used by many. Our special thanks goes to J.S. McCarthy Printing for their generous support of this project and their belief in our mission, which will ensure that this book finds its way into the hands of even more children than it otherwise might have.
By reading this book, we hope you learn about the incredible chemical compound that makes up water and all it does for life on Earth. And, most important, we hope you take the knowledge and put it to use in your daily lives so that Earth’s water, which comes around and goes around, stays available, clean, and safe so all may bene t for generations to come.
Jeff Riddle & the Discovering Water Publishing Team
May 2015
