Background Information
No matter where you are right now, you are in a watershed. A watershed is an area of land that drains to a common point such as a creek, stream, river, or lake. We often refer to watersheds interchangeably as ‘basins.’ Our homes, schools, grocery stores, shopping malls, soccer fields, baseball diamonds, where we grow our food, and where we play all exist in watersheds.
Vocabulary
Watershed: An area of land that drains to a common point
Natural Resources: Materials found in nature that are used by humans and other living things
Filter: To remove or keep out unwanted substances
Pollution: Presence of contaminants that can harm the environment
Bacteria: Microscopic single-celled organisms
Organisms: Living things
Nutrients: Substances in food that are essential for growth and life
Conserve: Protect from harm or destruction
Disposable: Something used once and thrown away
Books
The Water Cycle: Evaporation, Condensation and Erosion by Rebecca Harman
Letting Swift River Go by Jane Yolan
Videos
We All Live in a Watershed (Music Video/Follow with one or more enhanced learning activities: Watershed Walk, New Word Wall, Paper Watersheds, Delineating Clay Watersheds)
What’s In Your Water?
Fishing (Video and The Clean Water Game)
The Farm (Video and Activity)
The Mudfight (Video and Worksheet)
The Shower (Video and Activity)
The Walk (Video and Worksheet)
Tubing (Video and Worksheet)
Adventures of the Conservation Pack
Episode 3 (Video and Worksheet)
Episode 6 (Video and Worksheet)
Episode 8 (Video and Worksheet)