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.
World Water Day Activities – World Water Day is held annually March 22nd
World Water Day Activities for Grades 4-8
One Well Story on YouTube to be used with World Water Day Activities
Educator Guides
Hands-On Activities from the Groundwater Foundation
Let’s learn about Earth’s secret stash of underground water
Project WET Canada – Instructional Curriculum Resources
Educational Videos
All the Water in the World | Water Experiments for Kids video
Celebrate – Blazer Fresh | Songs For Kids | Dance Along | GoNoodle – YouTube
Earth’s Water SONG | Science for Kids | Grades K-2 – YouTube
Good Morning Song for Kids (with lyrics) | The Singing Walrus – YouTube
How Plastic Hurts the World – YouTube
Keeping Our Water Clean! – YouTube
Mission: Save Earth – A virtual Earth Day PE workout activity and Brain Break – YouTube
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
The Water Cycle | ESL Music for Kids – YouTube
The Water. Looking after our Planet | Educational Video for Kids. – YouTube
Travelling Underground with Water | Water Experiments for Kids video
Water Cycle | Songs For Kids | Sing Along | GoNoodle – YouTube
Water on the Earth Goes Round | Science Is A Snap | Jack Hartmann – YouTube
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
Water Footprint Activity – Educator Resource
Wet Word Search – Groundwater Foundation
Word Search – Value of Water Canada
Children’s Water Festivals
Annual children’s water festivals are held across Ontario. For more information, visit your local group’s website:
Grey Bruce Children’s Water Festival
Durham Children’s Watershed Festival
Eastern Ontario Water Festival
Haliburton-Muskoka-Kawartha Children’s Water Festival
Halton Children’s Water Festival
Perth Children’s Water Festival
Peterborough Children’s Water Festival
Greater Sudbury Children’s Water Festival
York Children’s Water Festival
Visit our online library’s main webpage to find more resources on topics related to drinking water.