The links below contain self-directed educational resources about different water topics – ranging from global to personal perspectives, which together reflect many of the complex and important roles of water in our lives.
Links, Materials, and Resources
Discover Water
Interactive activities about water topics including the water cycle, oceans, fresh water, watersheds, water conservation and protection, and water use.
Getting Little Feet Wet Education Guide
Getting Little Feet Wet is designed to help educators of young children teach about water in fun, age-appropriate ways. For a free copy of this guide please email the Coordinator.
Wash Resources
For online training in a water, sanitation, and hygiene module, view the Project WET WASH resources.
Water for You And Me
Water for You and Me is designed for use by early childhood educators, parents, grandparents and anyone else who wants to help young children understand the importance of water to life as well as water's use in keeping people healthy.
Clean And Conserve
Fun and hands on activities, for all ages, that promote water conservation and hygiene to make your world a cleaner and healthier place. Clean and Conserve education materials will give the participants access to the WaterStar recognition program.
Discover Water
Interactive activities about water topics including the water cycle, oceans, fresh water, watersheds, water conservation and protection, and water use.
Water Cycle
The water cycle is the endless movement of water around the earth. This fun and interactive online game allows students to understand how water moves through earth's natural systems.
Incredible Journey
This activity allows students to simulate the movement of water within the water cycle and understand the states of water as it moves through the cycle.
Clean And Conserve
Fun and hands on activities, for all ages, that promote water conservation and hygiene to make your world a cleaner and healthier place. Clean and Conserve education materials will give the participants access to the WaterStar recognition program.
Long Haul
You plan to go out, but first need to complete your daily tasks: wash dishes, do laundry, bathe, haul 200 gallons (760 l) of water to the house...Hmmm, maybe it will be a while before you can leave.
Discover Water
Interactive activities about water topics including the water cycle, oceans, fresh water, watersheds, water conservation and protection, and water use.
Materials For H2O Olympics
Students compete in a Water Olympics to investigate two properties of water, adhesion and cohesion.
H2O Olympics (Video Instructional)
Blue River
Students participate in a whole-body exercise to simulate the movement of water through a river.
8-4-1
Representing eight different water users, students must safely carry one water container “downstream” and must navigate through four simulated water management challenges to reach the next community of water users on the same “river.”
A Drop in the Bucket
By estimating and calculating the percentage of available fresh water on earth, students understand that this resource must be used and managed carefully.
Invaders
Students will learn what aquatic invasive species are and then participate in a full-body movement game that simulates competition for habitat and resources. Students will also create graphs and find out about prevention and management of aquatic invasive species.
My Water Address
Students determine their water address and identify unique characteristics (e.g. spring floods along rivers or thunderstorms with hail). They then assess their risk and create an Action (Emergency) Pack and Family Action Plan to be prepared in case of a flood or other natural disaster.
To Flood or Not to Flood
By calculating economic loss that results from flooding in a specific area, students investigate how people are affected by floods and other weather events.
Color Me a Watershed
Through interpretation of maps, students observe how development can affect a watershed.
A Drop in the Bucket
By estimating and calculating the percentage of available fresh water on earth, students understand that this resource must be used and managed carefully.
Get the Groundwater Picture
Students learn about basic groundwater principles as they create their own geologic cross section or earth window.
Money Down the Drain
Through observation and simple calculations, students learn that a dripping faucet wastes a valuable resource.