Water Promotion Toolkit
Welcome!
At OUSD, students have access to drinking water to stay healthy and hydrated at school. These resources can help you promote drinking water in your schools and communities.
Rethink Your Drink!
May is Rethink Your Drink Month, but we can encourage our communities to Rethink Your Drink all year! This is a time to celebrate drinking water and encourage our communities to reduce their sugary drink consumption.
Follow along and join the conversation with these hashtags: #acnswater #CalFreshHealthyLiving #healthylivingforlife #ousdhotm
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Re-Think Your Drink encourages creating fun and engaging lessons to help students learn how to choose healthy beverages. Students learn about nutrient-dense and empty-calorie beverages, how to read nutrition labels, and the benefits of drinking water. More lessons available on this page!
Tools to Plan Your Water Bottle & Water Station Management
Getting water bottles for your school? Consider starting here!
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Memo: Water Bottles for Middle, High, PreK Students to honor Supervisor Wilma Chan
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Water Bottle Management Guide
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OUSD Water Stations + PBIS
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PBIS Water Stations Expectations Poster Examples
Honoring Wilma Chan
Supervisor Wilma Chan was a champion for the health and well-being of children and families in Alameda County throughout her life, including through her financial support of the project to install water filling stations in all OUSD schools. In spring 2023, bottles were distributed for all OUSD TK-5 elementary students thanks to funds from the Supervisor Wilma Chan Legacy Fund through Vision Alameda County (VAC), the Chan family, and Alameda County Public Health Department Nutrition Services Program. Additional bottles were distributed for middle, high school, and PreK students continue this effort, with thanks to other grant funds provided to OUSD Health & Wellness programs from the City of Oakland Sugar Sweetened Beverage Tax Fund.
Water Videos Playlist
Flavored "Spa" Water Ideas
Adding natural flavors to water can add interest, variety and excitement to drinking water! When getting creative with your flavored water recipes, use fruits, vegetables, & herbs, and avoid sugar or other artificial sweeteners.
Water Posters & Photos
Post, share, show the water love!
Many of these posters are translated into Spanish. Find posters celebrating the benefits of drinking water, an editable poster directing students towards the school water fountain with room for student art, posters educating about the amount of sugar in some sugary drinks, and more. See the whole folder here.
Alameda County Public Health Department’s Nutrition Services Program partnered with East Oakland resident photographer Britt Sense to capture these beautiful images of community residents drinking water for the 8 week Water is Life messaging campaign. Many images were featured on billboards along the E14th St corridor. Images are in this folder and available for respectful use for the community.
Activities, Lessons, Books
Potter the Otter: Available in Spanish!
[For Pre-K to 2nd] Potter the Healthy Otter (La Nutria Saludable) has stories about different healthy activities.
For Free: Find PDFs online - "It's Picnic Day Potter" is a fun place to start.
Physical books are also available.
Water Curriculum Example From San Francisco
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Even More Resources! (Fact sheets, Infographics, Policy Info, and more)
BANPAC - Drinking Water + Sugary Drinks Pages
Research in Child Health: Resources Page // Water First Page