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Interactive Games
- Interactive water cycle diagram (USGS): an illustration of the water cycle with interactive elements
- Water Footprint Calculator: Discover your water footprint and tips on how to save water.
- The Role of Water in Our Lives: Project WET's interactive game about the water cycle, saving water, and more.
- Tip Tank: Water conservation starts with you – so go have some fun and learn new tips in the Tip Tank matching game!
- EPA Test Your WaterSense: Move the water-efficiency hero Flo through water pipes and answer water-efficiency questions while avoiding water-wasting monsters.
- EPA Thirstin' Interactive Water Cycle: Fun activities to explore the water cycle and learn about water filtration.
Activities
- Groundwater Foundation: Find tools, resources, ideas, and ready-to-go activities to learn ways to preserve and protect groundwater.
- National Environmental Education Foundation:
- Watershed Sleuth Challenge: In this Watershed Sleuth Challenge, you will learn more about your watershed—what it is, why it's important, and what you can do to help protect it, as you earn badges at each level of this three-part course.
- Water Quality Backyard Activity Guide: Use this activity guide to learn more and explore the topic of water quality, including building your own mini water cycle!
- What is Stormwater? Activity Guide: With this activity guide, you can learn more about stormwater and how to reduce its impact on the environment. The guide also has instructions for building your own rain gauge and rain garden!
- Wetlands Activity Guide: These fun projects will teach you about wetlands—including how to make your own origami lotus!
- Modeling the Water Budget Activity: In this activity, students will use California precipitation totals and evapotranspiration data to calculate and graph water deficits and surpluses. These spreadsheet models will help students understand droughts and the movement of water in the water cycle.
- Water Filtration Challege: In this activity, students are challenged to design and build a water filtration device using commonly available materials. Students will use an iterative process as they build, test and measure the performance of the filtration device, analyze the data collected, and use this information to work toward an improved filtration design.
Resources
- Department of Water Resources K-12 Education Materials: Free educational materials including worksheets, activity books, posters, videos, and curriculum guides.
- Free EEI Webinars: California Education and the Environment Initiative Training Recordings: free, state-sponsored K-12 curriculum through an environmental lens. EEI helps students understand their relationship to the environment.
- Project WET: Water Education Foundation Project WET (Water Education for Teachers), an award-winning education program to facilitate stewardship of water resources through classroom-ready teaching aids.
- Water Science School: The U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Water Science School offers information on many aspects of water, along with pictures, data, maps, and an interactive center where you can give opinions and test your water knowledge.