Free Online Educational Resources
Hello Educators & Parents!
We've created an educational resource page featuring lessons you can use to teach your students about water. Lessons are formatted in videos and PDF's that can be easily shared with students. We're here to support and supplement learning about important water topics. We'll be updating and adding to this list so be sure to check back often.
Water Education Workshop
ACWD partners with the Water Education Foundation's Project WET (Water Education for Teachers) program to provide training on diverse water topics so that those educators can reach students with objective, experiential, science-based water education. Interested in attending? Sign up here! We'll notify you about the next workshop.
Videos - The Water Workshop
| The Water Workshop: The Water Cycle |
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| Recommended Grade Levels : 3 through 5 |
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| Content Format: YouTube Video |
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| Language: English |
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| Description: Learn about the various stages of The Water Cycle using just a few simple materials around the house. Compliments NGSS MS-ESS2.C-4. Explores continuous water cycle among land ocean and atmosphere via evaporation, condensation and precipation. |
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| Teacher Resource: Comprehensive Water Cycle Resource |
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| Source Link: https://bit.ly/acwdTheWaterCycle |
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| The Water Workshop: Your Water Footprint |
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| Recommended Grade Levels: 3 through 8 |
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| Content Format: YouTube Video |
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| Language: English |
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| Description: Measure water use in a single day and discover your water footprint. Compliments NGSS 5-ESS3-1: Human Impacts on Earth System This lesson is from the Project WET guidebook. Info about Project WET at www.projectwet.org |
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Activity: Students can calculate their water footprint with a Water Footprint Calculator. |
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Teacher Resource: Water Footprint Definition https://waterfootprint.org/en/water-footprint |
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Source Link: https://bit.ly/acwdWaterFootprint Addtl video: https://bit.ly/2CMoA54 |
| The Water Workshop: Groundwater Dessert |
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| Recommended Grade Levels; 3 through 12 |
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| Content Format: YouTube Video |
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| Language: English |
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| Description: Learn about groundwater and where it lives by making an edible mini groundwater model using a few simple ingredients: chocolate pudding, crushed graham crackers, chocolate chips and a pocky stick! |
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| Source Link: https://bit.ly/acwdDessert |
Free Educational Materials
Support water education learning in your classroom by ordering free activity booklets, coloring books, posters, maps, curriculum guides, pencils, rulers and California poppy seeds.
Link to the order from here.
| ACWD Virtual Tour: Fish Passage Projects in Alameda Creek |
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Catch a recording of the tour here and join Anna, the steelhead trout, with ACWD friends, for a fun and educational up-close look at our fish passage projects in Alameda Creek! Every attendee has the best seat in the house as we take you down into the creek bed and alongside the installation of a state-of-the-art fish ladder and give you a behind-the-scenes look at the operation of one of our inflatable rubber dams and first fish ladder, fish screens and water diversion pipelines. Tour-goers will get a near fish-eye-view of the journey Anna, the steelhead trout, will be able to take once our projects are complete. These projects have been decades in the making, with the help of our many partners, and are now nearing completion. We'll show the magnitude of these $78 million dollar projects (with partner support and grants) designed to allow threatened steelhead trout, like Anna and other fish species, to migrate easily and safely upstream and downstream. The project will also allow ACWD to maintain reliable water supplies for residents and businesses in Fremont, Newark and Union City. Following the 45-minute tour is a 15-minute Q&A session with ACWD staff. |
FREE Live Entertainment
School Assemblies: In-person & Virtual
Water education comes to life with innovative live entertainment featuring ZunZun, a musical theater performing group! Performances are offered in-person or virtually and are FREE to schools and teachers in Fremont, Newark and Union City. Students will incorporate movement, music and learning the science behind water.
To schedule a performance contact ZunZun at 831.426.0684 or zunzuntunes@gmail.com.
Live Stream or Pre-Recorded Options with ZunZun
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| Live Stream Assembly ZunZun will perform an exciting 30 minute water education themed assembly filled with music, movement, dance and science concepts. Contact us (info below)! |
Short Video Segments |
Google Form with Questions |
| Contact us to schedule a live stream assembly or for free delivery of CA poppy seed packets and/or water movement cards at 831.426.0684 or zunzuntunes@gmail.com |
Step 2: Choose an Activity |
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Poppy Seed Packet Delivery At home California poppy seed science experiment teaches plant life cycle and gets students outside. Tons of NGSS science learning. Video lesson here! Give seeds to students at school materials/lunch pick-up. |
WaterBeat Card (Free delivery to teachers!) Water needs to move and students can too! This colorful postcard filled with images and instructions will engage students in water themed movement! Connect water words and reinforce vocabulary with this fun activity. Give cards to students at school materials/lunch pick-up. |
| Matching Game (Online!) This online game is a lesson in water conservation easily played together online or at home. Play now - Spanish & English versions. |
| Waterbeat book PDF & Video (Online!) A story w/colorful pictures about water's journey, to share with students, along with videos to get them up and moving! Link here to the book & video! |
More Videos
Entertaining and educational videos about water supply, resources, conservation, science and much more!
- https://bit.ly/332WVrf The Water Workshop
- https://bit.ly/H20educationvideos CA Dept of Water Resources
- https://vimeo.com/user2100087 Project WET/Water Education TV
| Parks Online Resources for Teachers & Students (PORTS) |
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| Recommended Grade Levels: K-12 |
| Content Format: Website & YouTube |
| Language: English |
| Description: California State Parks is proud to present PORTS (Parks Online Resources for Teachers and Students) Program which provides K-12 students the opportunity to connect with the diverse cultural, natural, and historic resources of our state through virtual field trip experiences. The PORTS On-Demand Programs is for students learning in their digital or in-person classrooms and PORTS Home Learning Programs for K-12 students learning from home. |
| Source Link: Website & YouTube |
Virtual Learning Tools - Print or Share Online
| Water Conservation Pledge |
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| Recommended Grade Levels: Pre-K through 3rd |
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| Content Format: PDF |
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| Language: English |
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Description: A short pledge to use water wisely. Share this PDF with students to recite the water conservation pledge as a class to save water! |
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| Source Link: Water Conservation Pledge |
| Water, The First Ingredient in Every Pizza! |
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| Recommended Grade Levels: 3-12 |
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Content Format: PDF |
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| Language: English |
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| Description: Discover the water footprint of a pizza and its various parts - the flour, the cheese and the sauce. Share this PDF with students to find out how much water goes into making a pizza! |
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| Source Link: Pizza PDF |
| Water Conservation Checklist for Students |
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| Recommended Grade Levels: 4-8 |
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| Content Format: PDF |
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| Language: English |
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| Description:A checklist that students use at home to conduct a home water audit. Includes suggested actions and parent signature box. |
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| Source Link: Water Conservation Checklist |
| Get WET! Home Water Lesson: H2Olympics | ||
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| Recommended Grade Levels: 3-8 |
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| Content Format: PDF |
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| Language : English |
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| Description: A lesson that teaches cohesion, adhesion and surface tension |
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| Source Link: H2Olympics PDF |