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 (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