Classroom Lessons
Use these resources in the classroom to raise awareness of where our water comes from, how we get it and where it goes after we use it.
Lesson Plans: Cowichan Watershed Board
- Introduction: Save Water with Water Woman
- Unit overview
- Day 1: Nine litres not well spent
- Day 2: Two socks do not make a load
- Day 3: The longest shower
- Day 4: The invisible leaker
- Day 5: Less work, more chilling and Conclusion
- Water Woman: Video series
Lesson plans & activities: US EPA
Field Trips & Workshops
- A Day Without Water – Grades 1-3 (Langley, Abbotsford or Surrey school districts)
- Green Bricks H24 workshop on water and sustainability – Grade 4 (Lower Mainland and Okanagan school districts)
- Watershed Education Programs at the LSCR or Coquitlam Watershed – Grades 4-5
- Ground Water Gurus – Grades 4-7 (Langley, Abbotsford or Surrey school districts)
- Pond Peeking – Grades 6-7
- Investigating Stream Life – Grades 8-12
- Conservation Ecology – Grades 8-12
- Green B10cks workshop on sustainable building design – Grade 10 (Lower Mainland, Victoria and Okanagan school districts)
Additional Resources
- Water Cycle diagram
- Water Cycle diagram for Kids
- Water Cycle for Kids: A Placemat
- Water Sustainability Door Hangers
- Water Treatment Plant Virtual Tour
- WaterQuest – Human Impacts on Watersheds
- Discover Water Interactive website – Role of Water in Our Lives
- Water Conservation Around the House – Interactive Game
Books
- All the Water in the World by George Ella Lyon & Katherine Tillotson
- Big Earth, Little Me by Thom Wiley
- E is for Environment by Ian James Corlett
- The Magic School Bus: At the Water Works by Joanna Cole