The Incredible Journey Game  

Water makes an incredible journey through the environment! This hands-on learning experience involves movement, interaction, and the creation of 'take-home' beaded bracelets. 

Drop in the Bucket Game  

Freshwater is a finite resource. How much freshwater is available on Planet Earth? Discover how precious our water resource really is in this hands-on lesson. 

Water Mystery Bag Game  

In what ways do we use water daily? The Mystery Bag contains items that symbolize the activities we do every day that use water, including brushing our teeth, cleaning our dishes, and watering our garden.  

Construct a Watershed Parachute Game  

How is a watershed shaped? Students are asked to work together to create mountains and valleys out a large parachute to construct a watershed. Wiffle balls represent precipitation and show how water moves from mountain peaks to collect in waterways within a valley. 

Water Cycle Race Game 

This relay style race game includes buckets of water and water squirters, students race to take water from one bucket to the next while demonstrating the water cycles stages of evaporation, condensation and precipitation.   

Macro-Invertebrate Mayhem Activity  

Small insects and critters within a stream can tell us a lot about water quality and stream health! Learn to collect and identify macro-invertebrate species. This in-field activity requires access to a waterway. 

Water Web Activity  

Water connects us all - individuals, communities, and the environment - in an intricate balance. Students weave the needs of communities and the environment to discover how we all depend on surface and groundwater.  

Tree Cookie – Water Connectedness Activity 

This activity explores the intricate ecological relationships between wildlife, insects and invertebrates, fungi, trees and plants, and water.  

Journey Though a Watershed Puzzle Activity  

Drinking water makes an incredible journey - through the water cycle, watersheds, and infrastructure - to get to your tap! Recreate the steps water takes from the environment to your home or school with this puzzle activity. 

Watershed Field Trip Kit – Teachers Guide, Map and Activities 

A complete teachers kit to accompany Team WaterSmart Watershed Field Trips or as a stand-alone educational suite. Includes a Teachers Manual with activity description and instructions, an activity kit with all necessary materials, and SD68 or SD69 full watershed map. Please indicate if you are applying from SD68 or SD69 upon requesting the loan. 

Project WET Educational Resource  

The Project WET Activity and Curriculum Guide is full of water-related games and activities! Activities such as The Incredible Journey, Drop in the Bucket, Macro-invertebrate Mayhem, Water Web and more are fully detailed within this comprehensive book.  

Solomon the Salmon Puppet 

Solomon the Salmon is an ambassador for clean and healthy watersheds! Who better to deliver water-related lessons to students in a fun and engaging way!   

Watershed Model  

What is a watershed? How does water move in a watershed? How do human activities impact healthy watersheds? Explore these concepts with an interactive watershed model! 

Watch Team WaterSmart's Capri demonstrate the Watershed Model. 

Ground Water Model  

How does freshwater infiltrate the layers rock, sand, and gravel deep below our feet? What do aquifers look like and how do wells work? This cross-sectional model shows how groundwater is stored and moves beneath the surface! 

Indigenous Stories:

The Water Walker - Joanne Robertson 

Nokomis walks to protect our water, and to protect all of us. Nokomis Josephine Mandamin, an Ojibwe grandmother, walks to raise awareness of our need to protect Nibi for future generations, and for all life on the planet. Nokomis, along with other women, men, and young people, has walked around all of the Great Lakes from the four salt waters - or oceans - all the way t lake superior. During one walk alone, Josephine put almost 4,500,000 footsteps on her sneakers! 

Orca Chief - Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd

Thousands of years ago in the village of Kitkatla, four hunters leave home in the spring to harvest seaweed and sockeye. When they arrive at their fishing grounds, exhaustion makes them lazy and they throw their anchor overboard without care for the damage it might do to marine life or the sea floor.

When Orca Chief discovers what the hunters have done, he sends his most powerful orca warriors to bring the men and their boat to his house. The men beg forgiveness for their ignorance and lack of respect, and Orca Chief compassionately sends them out with his pod to show them how to sustainably harvest the ocean's resources.

Kwulasulwut: Stories from the Coast Salish - Ellen White and David Neel

In this blend of original and traditional Salish Stories, the characters pass through many magical experiences and adventures, In each story, the young reader travels on a journey through both nature and the supernatural, and at the end discovers one of life's lessons, just as they were once revealed to Salish Children by their traditional Storyteller.

skɬp'lk'mitkw: Water Changeling - Harron Hall and Phyllis Issac

skɬp'lk'mitkw (The Water Changeling) is a story about the natural water cycle from a syilx traditional ecological knowledge perspective. The story features a water girl named skɬp'lk'mitkw who longs to visit with her grandparents and receives help from newfound friends. They help her change into rain, hail, and snow, so she can reach her grandparents.

i? siwɬkw nkwancinəm k'əl suli? / The Water Sings to Suli? - Harron Hall and Shianna Allison

iʔ siwɬkw nkwancinəm k̕əl suliʔ / The Water Sings to Suliʔ is an original story with a universal message, shedding light on the importance of water as a living entity. The story features a young girl named suliʔ, who hears the song of the water calling for her while playing outside. suliʔ ventures out of her yard and into the forest. Along the way she meets an unexpected magic water child. The water child entrusts suliʔ with an important message to share with the world.

The Kingfisher Camp: River Detectives - Diane Swanson

The Kingfisher Camp River Detectives shows how plants and animals interact and adapt themselves to the river. It shows how living things depend on non-living things, such as water, light, sand and gravel. Young children will take delight in discovering that; Black cottonwood trees thrive in damp riverbanks.Belted kingfishers dive into rivers after fish.Quartz in river sandstone is harder than a knife blade.Bears beat paths to waterfalls to catch salmon.The book also presents examples of river fossils, First Nations' uses of river life and the ways people harm and help the river.

How We Use Water - Amanda Sandland

We use water for a lot of things. This book describes the different ways people use water in the Arctic. This book is part of the Nunavummi Reading Series, a Nunavut-developed series that supports literacy learning while teaching readers about the people, traditions, and environment of the Canadian Arctic.

Gatherings XV: Youth - Water Anthology

The Gatherings-Water project reflects the cultural rejuvenation of Indigenous Youth in B.C. It is not only a revival of a respected anthology series, but also a new level of engagement between publishing house and community, between established writers and emerging voices, and finally a testament to the connection of Indigenous Youth with the life-sustaining power of water.

X̌e̕x̌e̕ Sq̓upa̓stul u tu T̓hewum Qa̕ ̓ i ̓ K̓wat̓lkwa: Sacred Gathering of the Freshwater and Saltwater - Eliot White-Hill, Kwulasultun

This booklet features White-Hill’s version of the Snuneymuxw stories his murals are based on, written especially for a young audience. The stories, including Origin of the K̓wal̓uxw (Dog Salmon) Run, and Story of the Q̓ullhánumucun (Killer Whale) Transformation, are accompanied by colouring pages based on the artwork. QR codes in the booklet link to audio recordings of White-Hill telling the stories and pronouncing the Hul’q’umi’num names of the beings in the artwork. 

Water-Based Learning Books:

The Great Big Water Cycle Adventure - Kay Barnham and Maddie Frost

Follow the journey of water around the world! From raindrops falling to the ground into rivers, flowing down to the sea and back up in the air to form clouds. Look and wonder is a fresh, bold and bright, narrative non-fiction series introducing children to the natural world.

Salmon Forest - David Suzuki, Sarah Ellis, and Sheena Lott

Take a walk in the woods with Kate and her dad. You'll find out why the Pacific Rainforest is called the salmon forest and how the salmon and the trees need each other. You'll also meet fat slugs and squawking gulls and a bear that is hungry for some fish. And you'll get to know Brett and his family as they fish for salmon, clean it, cook it, and share a tasty meal with Kate and her dad. 

Lawrence and the Rain Garden - Cougar Creek Streamkeepers

Charming canine gardener Lawrence gives you the inside scoop in this 112-page book for the young and young-at-heart, featuring delightful and informative color photos of the rain garden project from start to finish (though as Lawrence says, a garden is never finished, because it’s always growing and changing).

Beneath the Bridge - Hazel Hutchins and Ruth Ohi

When a child launches a tiny paper boat downstream, the ship begins a journey towards the sea. There's so much to see, but the big river can be rough for such a small vessel. Help is found along the way with many other seafaring friends in this rhyming tale of drifting and dreams.

All the water in the World - George Ella Lyon and Katherine Tillotson

Faucet, well, rain cloud, sea ... from each of these comes water. But where does water go? To find out, honey, turn the page, dive in with tongue or toes, with eyes and ears and nose - and wonder at the flow of this great world's life story.

Explore the Wild Coast with Sam and Crystal - Gloria Snively and Karen Gillmore

Join eleven-year-old Crystal and her seven-year-old brother, Sam, as they travel by seine boat along the rugged Pacific coastline to visit their aunt Kate, a marine biologist, and uncle Charlie, a retired fisherman, at their home in a sheltered inlet called Eagle Cove. As Aunt Kate takes the children for walks along the beach and teaches them about marine life, tidal zones, and habitats, they meet a dazzling range of sea creatures and learn the importance of observing, respecting, and preserving nature. Colorful, engaging, and educational, Explore the Wild Coast with Sam and Crystal is both a delightful story and an indispensable learning tool for children ages eight to eleven.

One Well: The Story of Water on Earth - Rochelle Strauss and Rosemary Woods

Seen from space, our planet looks blue. This is because almost 70 percent of Earth's surface is covered with water. Earth is the only planet with liquid water -- and therefore the only planet that can support life. All water is connected. Every raindrop, lake, underground river and glacier is part of a single global well. Water has the power to change everything -- a single splash can sprout a seed, quench a thirst, provide a habitat, generate energy and sustain life. How we treat the water in the well will affect every species on the planet, now and for years to come. One Well shows how every one of us has the power to conserve and protect our global well. 

Anthology for Action - Kwalikum Secondary School Student Council

A collection of artwork and writing by Vancouver Island youth , focused on climate action and environmental issues.

Salmon: Swimming for Survival - Rowena Rae

These fish hatch in streams, swim extreme distances out to sea, and then migrate home to where they were born to produce the next generation. But today their habitats and very survival are threatened by human activity. This book looks at the unique biology of salmon, their importance to many Indigenous communities, their cultural and economic impact and the vital role they play in ecosystems. With profiles from scientists, educators, fishers and more, learn about the people who are working hard to change the uncertain future of salmon and improve the chance that these iconic fish can survive for generations to come.

Waterfowl ID: Pocket Guide - Ducks Unlimited Canada

Have fun watching waterfowl. Ducks Unlimited Canada is happy to provide you with this special pocket guide to help you identify and learn about your favourite species.