Educational Resources for Students & World Water Day Activities
This post contains educational activities for elementary and post-secondary students to learn about water conservation, sustainability and promoting healthy environments.
Visit our online library’s main webpage to find more resources on topics related to drinking water.
World Water Day Activities (March 22nd)
World Water Day Activities for Grades 4-8
One Well Story on YouTube to be used with World Water Day Activities
Water Footprint Activity – Educator Resource
General Educational Resources
All the Water in the World | Water Experiments for Kids video
Project WET Canada – Instructional Curriculum Resources
Rain Recipe | Water Experiments for Kids video
Solid, Liquid, Gas | Water Experiments for Kids video
The 3 Ps of Wastewater | Water Experiments for Kids video
Travelling Underground with Water | Water Experiments for Kids video
Where is Water? The human impact on water video
Video: Barry’s Wastewater Treatment Tour
Video: Barry’s Water Treatment Tour
Resources for Grades K-3
Grades K – 3: How People Get Their Water
Grades K – 3: Interactive Build Your Own Aquifer
Grades K – 3: Interactive Water Cycle
Grades K – 3: Thirstin Builds an Aquifer
Grades K – 3: Thirstin’s Groundwater Movement Activity
Grades K – 3: Thirstin’s Wacky Water Adventure
Grades K – 3: Thirstin’s Water Cycle
Grades K – 3: Thirstin’s Water Cycle Adventure
Resources for Grades 3-8
Grades 3+: Pipe Up game – Delivering safe clean water
Grades 3 – 5: Waste Not, Want Not
Grades 3 – 5: Water Goes Around and Comes Around
Grades 3 – 5: Water-Wise Landscaping
Grades 4 – 8: Fun Facts Matching Game
Grades 4 – 8: How People Get Their Water
Grades 4 – 8: Interactive Matching Game
Grades 4 – 8: Interactive Water Filtration
Grades 4 – 8: Interactive Word Scramble
Grades 4 – 8: Matching Water Terms
Grades 4 – 8: Non-Point Source Pollution
Grades 4-8: There’s No New Water activity
Grades 4 – 8: The Role of Plants in Water Filtration
Grades 4 – 8: Thirstin Builds an Aquifer
Grades 4 – 8: Water Filtration
Grades 4 – 8: Water Purification by Evaporation and Condensation
Grades 4 – 8: Where Does Water Come From?
Grades 4 – 8: Word Scramble Game
Grades 6 – 8: Aquifers and Recharge Areas
Grades 6 – 8: Indicating Insects
Grades 6 – 8: Water Meter Reader
Resources for Grades 9-12
Grades 9 – 12: Biography of a River
Grades 9 – 12: Building a Model Aquifer
Grades 9 – 12: Build Your Own Watershed
Grades 9 – 12: Decision Making – A Mock Town Meeting on a Proposed Tank Farm
Grades 9 – 12: Do You Drink It?
Grades 9 – 12: From Ground to Water
Grades 9 – 12: Groundwater Basics
Grades 9 – 12: Groundwater – Cleaning Up
Grades 9 – 12: Interactive Question and Answer Game
Grades 9 – 12: Landfills and the Potential for Groundwater Contamination
Grades 9 – 12: Leaking Underground Storage Tanks
Grades 9 – 12: Question and Answer Game
Grades 9 – 12: Question and Answer Game
Grades 9 – 12: Resource Management – Protecting Your Drinking Water
Grades 9 – 12: Tracking Pollution
Grades 9 – 12: Wastewater Treatment
Grades 9 – 12: Water Filtration
Grades 9 – 12: What Goes on Down Under?
Grades 9 – 12: What is Groundwater Pollution Doing to the Neighbourhood?
Grades 9 – 12: What’s the Level?
Comics, Colouring & Activity Sheets
Colouring Sheet – Water Journey of Surface Water Source
Colouring Sheet – Water Journey Well Source, Groundwater
Contamination Crossword – Groundwater Foundation
Crossword Puzzle – Value of Water Canada
Groundwater Word Search – Groundwater Foundation
How Much Water Do You Use – Groundwater Foundation
How Much Water? – Matching Game
Ontario E-Zone – Colouring Zone
Ontario E-Zone – Mayas Spot the Differences
Ontario E-Zone – Protecting Our Water Comic
Ontario E-Zone – Save Our Water Comic
Ontario E-Zone – The Planet Needs Our Help Comic
Ontario E-Zone – We Are All Connected to Water Comic
Pipe Dreams Comic – The Adventures of Danny Droplet
Recycle Maze – Groundwater Foundation
There’s No New Water – Groundwater Foundation
Thirstin’s Wacky Water Activity Book – Grades k-3
Water Crossword – Groundwater Foundation
Water Cycle Crossword – Groundwater Foundation
Wet Word Search – Groundwater Foundation
Word Search – Value of Water Canada