Watersheds/Non-point Source Pollution Lessons & Activities
“Respect the Beach” from the Surfrider Foundation
- Grades K-12
- A series of lessons, activities and videos that focus on watersheds and non-point source pollution
“Storm Drain Dan” by the City of Phoenix, Arizona
- Grades 4-6
- Comic book-style booklet about Storm Drain Dan and his battles against non-point source pollution.
- Lesson focuses on the health of our waterways by discouraging the dumping of any pollutant into storm drains.
Kids Page from the Environmental Protection Agency
- A variety of activities, games and lessons focusing on non-point source pollution
Surf Your Watershed from the Environmental Protection Agency
- Explore the watershed that your school or home are in
“Down the Hill” from the Children’s Water Education Council
- Grades 4-6
- Students learn about watersheds and construct their own model watershed
- Students learn how pollution moves through a watershed from point and non-point sources.
“Twenty Weeks of Non-point Source Pollution Fighting” from Assumption College
- Grades 9-12
- Series of activities about non-point source pollution to be taught individually or as a unit over a 20-week period
“Stormy’s Activity Book” by Broward County Dept of Planning & Environmental Protection
- Grades K-3
- Stormy the Fish tells students the story of how his home river became polluted.
- Lesson focuses on pollution created by people, and pollution cleaned up by people.
- Illustrated with opportunities for students to draw and/or color pages.
- All grades
- The EnviroScape is a physical model of a watershed that demonstrates point source and non-point source pollution as it travels through a watershed to the water body
- Many Soil Conservation Districts or County Extension offices will loan an EnviroScape to you for classroom use
“Sum of the Parts” from Project WET
- Grades 4-12
- Students learn how everyone contributes to the pollution of a river as it flows through its watershed and discuss how to reduce everyone’s individual impacts
“A-maze-ing Water” from Project WET
- Grades K-8
- Students guide a drop of water through a maze of potential pollutant sources to learn how actions in the home and yard affect water quality
“Color Me a Watershed” from Project WET
- Grades 9-12
- Students learn how to interpret maps in order to observe how development can affect a watershed