Project WET Support Materials - Kids Books

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Kids In Discovery Series
Colourful, 16-page activity booklets for students ages 8 through 12 provide a fun, informative introduction to a water concepts. Creative and hands-on investigations, demonstrations, science experiments, educational games and stories stimulate understanding of each booklet’s topic. 30 copies 
 

The Water Story
Games and exercises introduce water artifacts and cultural celebrations, water friendly cleaning alternatives, and the maze from water source through treatment plant to homes and out again.

Celebrate Wetlands!
With everyday tools such as coffee filters, sponges, celery and food colouring, readers learn about the life of wetlands. A 27.5 cm x 40 cm poster reminds kids of the many spectacular plant and animal species of the wetlands.

Healthy Water, Healthy People
Through informative text, activities, investigations, and experiments, the booklet is designed to illustrate water quality topics and issues and make them intriguing, relevant, and fun for kids.

Fish & Fishing
From facts about fins to funny phrases, kids learn about the lives of fish and human-kind's long history of pursuing them. "A Fine Kettle of Fish" increases awareness of water pollution, whirling disease, drought, loss of habitat, and over-fishing.

Discover Ground Water and Springs
Interactive lessons such as filling glasses with sand, gravel, and clay show readers principles related to water flow. Watershed animals, hot and cold springs, and everyday ground water uses are vividly illustrated and demonstrated.

Conserve Water
Kids test their water IQ by matching familiar plants and animals with their water content, then get outdoors to learn "catchment," and think about their own neighbourhoods in the "Water Detective."

Water Works
Highlights Hoover Dam. Upper elementary and middle school aged students will discover how dams such as Hoover ensure that we have water to drink, to use for recreation, to provide power to our homes, to provide water for agriculture and business and to provide habitat for fish and wildlife.

Watershed Protection
What is a watershed? How can you protect a watershed using simple, everyday actions? Who manages a watershed? What watershed habitats support different plants and animals? Learn the answers to these questions and more through this interactive booklet. Kids can even become a certified Watershed Hero!

Big Rivers
Readers explore big rivers and watersheds in North America, meet famous river explorers, calculate a river's rate of flow, discover how the river environment is unique, investigate the many ways that rivers are important, and recognize the role of water managers.

Discovering Drought
How can there be a drought in a rain forest--or in the desert? What exactly is a drought? Learn these answers and more, such as the roles of snowpack and ground water, droughts around the world and throughout history, predicting and planning for drought, plant and animal adaptations, and dendrochronology. For students age 8-12.

Explore Sagebrush Prairie
Explore the Sagebrush Prairie ecosystem where a region of minimal rainfall yields a great diversity of life. Through mazes, math, and mapping, students will learn about a multitude of animals and plants as well as the importance of the ecosystem to human populations over time.

Native Waters - sharing the source
“Where is our river coming from Grandpa? Where does it go?” a child asks. Conversations between young people and elders thread through the booklet as readers discover key water concepts from a Native American perspective. Interactive reading, science, art, and culture activities reinforce concepts. Developed through the Native Waters Program, with emphasis placed on the Missouri River Watershed.

Discover Storm Water
Pull on your rain boots and try to imagine what your town would be like without storm drains. Readers can calculate runoff on permeable and impermeable surfaces, follow the maze of point and nonpoint source pollution, and apply best management practices.

Water Every Drop Counts
This 16 page activity booklet is packed with fun and engaging activities about where water comes from, where it goes, and how important it is to our lives. Students age 8––12 will explore the hydrologic cycle, worldwide water quantity, basic water quality issues, water and personal health and how water connects people worldwide. All activities reinforce the message that when it comes to water, every drop counts!

Explore Oceans
Have you been asked why the ocean is blue, or why is it salty? Maybe your students want to know how storms build. Explore Oceans teaches the answers along with navigation concepts and watershed principles

Contact Project WET Pauline Nystrom National Coordinator Project WET Canada c/o 135 Jordan Parkway Red Deer, AB. T4P 0A9 Phone:(403) 341-3465 Email: pauline.nystrom@ec.gc.ca