Water Learning Lab

康涅狄格州中南部地区水务局、伊莱·惠特尼博物馆和卡尔文·希尔日托中心将合作创建一个水学习实验室。这些来自16个城镇的合作伙伴和教师将设计和开发该中心，以满足一年级到五年级教室的课程需求。户外设施将提供在水的运动、动力、测量、净化和分配方面的“动手”和“动手”体验。它将为团队建设项目提供机会：运河，渡槽和介绍由伊莱·惠特尼在这个网站上开始的工程传统。该项目每年将集中培训30名教师。培训将鼓励以经验为导向的课堂学习。该项目将找出那些在传统课堂作业中可能无法充分展示其才能的天才自然力学家。

The South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority, the Eli Whitney Museum, and the Calvin Hill Day Care Center will collaborate to create a Water Learning Lab. These partners and teachers from 16 towns will design and develop the center to met the curriculum needs of 1st through 5th grade classrooms. The outdoor facility will offer "hands on" and "hands in" experiences in the movement, power, measurement, purification,and distribution of water. It will offer opportunities for group building projects: canals, aqueducts and an introduction to the tradition of engineering begun by Eli Whitney on this site. The project will train 30 teachers each year intensively. The training will encourage experience-directed learning in the classroom. The project will identify gifted natural mechanics who may not show their full talents in conventional classroom work.