Youth Activities: Water Resources
These activities were developed to make learning and demonstrating
water resource
concepts exciting and fun! They can be adapted for elementary and secondary
students,
both in and out of the classroom. All the activities are hands-on and most
are low cost or no cost. Each activity has a one-sentence purpose, background
for the
educator, list of materials, step-by-step procedure, and extensions. The individual
activities below have also been compiled into a booklet in PDF format.
Introductory Activities
Drinking Water Activities
Groundwater Activities
Watershed Activities
Glossary
Introductory Activities
- Water Tasting
- Acting Out the Water
Cycle
- Water Cycle Relay Race
- How Small is a PPM?
Drinking Water Activities
- Sources of Drinking Water
- How Drinking Water
is Cleaned
Groundwater Activities
- Mini-Groundwater Models
- Contamination of an Aquifer
Watershed Activities
- What is a Watershed?
- Use Your Head, Protect
Your Watershed!
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