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.

“EnviroScape”

• 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