Classroom Visit
Classroom Visit
Through classroom visits, we seek to create meaningful childhood experiences connected to water resources. Through hands-on and interactive activities, we hope to increase understanding and stewardship of water resources in children, their teachers, and families.
Example Activities
Choose an example activity or work with us to customize a lesson! For photos of each of these activities, visit our Educational Tools Library. Contact Eleanor at emahon@rpbcwd.org for questions about activities or lesson plans.
Lessons typically last a class period (45-55 min), but we can work with shorter time slots if needed.
A collection of rotating activities designed to show students the impacts of pollution and stormwater runoff.
We bring our sampling boat to your school. On it is hidden pictures of aquatic invasive species. The kids inspect the boat to find them and we talk about what they are, and why they are trouble. Requires access to an outdoor space to pull up our boat trailer.
We bring in live aquatic insects, let the students sort through them, and talk about their importance to healthy lakes and creeks. Students deduce the health of the waterbody based on what they find. For this one we can also have the kids go out and collect insects if there is an easy-to-access pond/creek/lake nearby. Seasonally available, spring-fall.
With a roll of a cube, students simulate the movement of water within the water cycle.
How does water move through a watershed? How does topography influence water? We'll explore by moving the sand in our interactive sandbox.
We have a dress-up trunk shaped like a canoe and filled with gear. Kids get to try on things and play, and learn about water safety and the work that the watershed does.
