These Classroom or Home Activities provide educational curricula that teach about water and its role in the environment.
Activity 1 - Weird Water This activity has four experiments that demonstrate the unique properties of water in plants, including cohesion, capillary action, and evapotranspiration. Click here to get started
Activity 2 - Red-winged Blackbird: At Home in the Cattails How do birds that live in the wetlands build their nests? This activity shows you how wildlife use special methods with wetland plants to build their homes. Click here to get started
Activity 3 - Nature’s Answer to the Sewage Treatment Plant This experiment shows how plants and microorganisms work together to clean up water through the process of biological filtration. Click here to get started
Activity 4 - Shoebox Watersheds This activity involves making and testing a model to show how water moves through a watershed and what happens to it along the way. Click here to get started
