Educational Resources for Students & World Water Day Activities

Students World Water Day
Students learning about the water cycle on World Water Day

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 website

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

Eagle Survivor video

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

Three Forms of Water (STEM activity with movement) | Kids Yoga, Music and Mindfulness with Yo Re Mi – 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 – 2: Drink it Up!

Grades K – 2: Happy the Fish

Grades K – 2: Spongy Wetlands

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 3 – 5: Water Works

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: 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: Flow Nets

Grades 9 – 12: From Ground to Water

Grades 9 – 12: Groundwater Basics

Grades 9 – 12: Groundwater – Cleaning Up

Grades 9 – 12: Hydraulic Head

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 Careers

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

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

Eastern Ontario Water Festival

Haliburton-Muskoka-Kawartha 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