Inspire young conservationists to protect the environment with a short activity on water quality and watersheds. Participants discover the importance of watershed management, learn about water quality problems, and discover possible...

What makes a watershed? What are the natural and human features of a watershed? How do human features affect watersheds? Where can I find my local watershed? These questions are thoroughly explained in an informative watershed interactive.

In this learning about watersheds learning exercise, students answer 15 questions using links to web resources about water use in their community.  This page includes numerous links to helpful websites.

Examine how pollution makes its way into an ocean with help from a model watershed. Scholars use household items to recreate a mini-watershed, equipped with pollutants, that when mixed with rain drain into a model's body of...

A project based scenario where students research problems and come up with answers to a local water board's concerns over water quality in the watershed. Background information is accessible for the following topics: importance of water,...

In this self-directed lesson, students use graphs and maps of water quality to investigate relationships between variables to answer questions. A handout with everything the student needs to complete this lesson is available as a PDF or...

NOAA Smart Buoys collect and transmit real-time weather, water conditions, and water quality data. Chesapeake Exploration gives teachers and their students unprecedented access to lessons designed around real-time observational data from...

This U.S. Geological Survey website features a fictious town, Dryville, and uses it to illustrate every aspect of water management that you might encounter. Click Home to access the site in Spanish.

This website offers three activity centers: Questionnaires, Opinion Surveys, and Challenge Questions. Take a look at these interesting water research activities from the US Geological Survey. Click Home to access the site in Spanish.

This resource provides information on watersheds, maps, activities, and links to local watershed information.

Find out why wetlands provide natural water quality, flood protection, erosion control, recreation and aesthetic appreciation, and natural products.

A massive amount of information about groundwater. Topics covered include groundwater basics, humans and groundwater, groundwater quality, and its place in the water cycle. Includes true-and-false quiz and a Q&A section, as well as a...

Students examine available data of water in the Colorado River Basin, study the possible consequences of changes to various user groups, and suggest solutions to adapt to these changes.

Protecting Shorelines & Streambanks - Naturally explains the critical importance of healthy shorelines for preventing soil erosion and filtering out pollutants. It looks specifically at riparian areas, such as those in Alberta, which...

The U.S. Geological Survey reports on the latest news affecting the earth today, as well as providing a wealth of data, reports, and information.