How does weather play a role in the lives of land and sea creatures? Find out with a instructional activity focused on habitats and the ways animals from different homes are connected. Here, learners explore how the life of a...

Work on your map skills with a packet of activities about the river basins in the Democratic Republic on Congo. Learners study the maps provided before answering the geography questions and writing an acrostic poem about the region.

See the water filtration system up close with a fun science experiment. Young scientists work for several class periods to design a water filter using household objects, and then decide which filter material would be most effective...

Learn all about watersheds in this text based article. What are they? Where are they found? What purpose do they serve?

Understand what watersheds are and the purpose of drainage basins. This is a resource designed to enrich classroom learning about the science of water.

This video describes what watersheds are and where they are located. View several different watersheds and learn how their flow is affected by the topography around them. [7:11]

Students examine the Biology topic of the biosphere. The tutorial includes definitions, examples, and pictures on biomes and watersheds.

The authors of this guide explain through pictures and clearly written text, what riparian areas are, why they are so important for an ecosystem's health, how to assess their health, and how to improve and preserve them.

The Evergreen Project profiles the natural history of rivers and streams. Topics include watersheds, how a stream becomes a river, erosion, water pollution, and the like.

Discusses how watersheds turn into a stream bed and where the water comes from. Follow the link "Life In the Mainstream" to get more detailed information about streams.

Provides color pictures and statistics on the biological and watershed characteristics of the Saint Lucia Lake on the east coast of South Africa.

This U.S. Geological Survey website features a fictious town, Dryville, and uses it to illustrate every aspect of water management that you might encounter. Click Home to access the site in Spanish.

This website offers three activity centers: Questionnaires, Opinion Surveys, and Challenge Questions. Take a look at these interesting water research activities from the US Geological Survey. Click Home to access the site in Spanish.

Find out why wetlands provide natural water quality, flood protection, erosion control, recreation and aesthetic appreciation, and natural products.

This site provides extensive information about streams. It gives an in-depth look at what a stream is, the kinds of wildlife that live by streams, and things we can do to protect and prevent pollution of streams.

A massive amount of information about groundwater. Topics covered include groundwater basics, humans and groundwater, groundwater quality, and its place in the water cycle. Includes true-and-false quiz and a Q&A section, as well as a...

Explains what a river basin is, and why it is important to take good care of it. Includes an activity where students build a simple 3-D paper model to illustrate how a watershed can become polluted.

Although this site talks about regions in Virginia, it offers excellent information on regions in general, for example, ways regions might be classified; e.g., by population density, geology, watershed, ecosystem, economy,...

The Lugbara people live on the plateau of the Nile -- Zaire watershed in northwestern Uganda and northeastern Zaire.

Learn more about Rivers and Streams through this educational resource. This site features photographs, a description, fun facts, and more about this type of freshwater ecosystem.

Protecting Shorelines & Streambanks - Naturally explains the critical importance of healthy shorelines for preventing soil erosion and filtering out pollutants. It looks specifically at riparian areas, such as those in Alberta, which...

This site has everything you might want to know about surface water and things you probably didn't even imagine! Click Home to access the site in Spanish.

This concise site discusses the fact that wetlands are among the most productive ecosystems in the world, play an integral part in the ecology of the watershed, and also have a role in atmospheric maintenance.

This resource provides information regarding what private citizens can do to slow the rate of wetland loss and to improve the quality of our remaining wetlands.