North Carolina Department of Energy and Natural Resources: Water Puzzler

This natural resources worksheet includes discussion activities about natural resources, 2 word searches, and a list of related books and videos.

Lots of information about stormwater - what it is, how it can become polluted and impact on water resources, how to prevent this, and how to conserve and protect water resources.

What is your school doing to protect and conserve water? Use the following questions to find out. When you are done, make some suggestions for how your school could improve. What could you and your class do to help?

Try to find at least eight things in the picture that could cause litter, waste, or other pollutants to end up in the storm drain and eventually flow into nearby lakes and streams. Includes a link to an interactive page of this activity....

Fan the flames of inspiration by teaching energy conservation! The video's narrator explains the core ideas of PS3B, Conservation of Energy and Energy Transfer. Discover what pupils throughout the grade levels should know about...

Did you know that the #1 pollutant in North Carolina is dirt? When soil is washed into streams and river, it smothers small animals and fish by clogging their gills. Look for bare patches of ground around your home and around your school...

When it rains, some of the rainwater soaks into the ground, and part of it flows over the ground and directly into creeks, streams, or rivers. This water that runs off into the river is called runoff, or sometimes stormwater runoff....

Cut out the fact cards to make a river basin trivia game. Assign points to each of the facts and hold a class competition. Can also be downloaded from here as a PDF file that includes score cards.

Your river basin is just one part of your ecological address. Your ecological address can tell you a lot about your place in the natural world, whether your street address places you in the middle of a city, on a rural road in the...

Energy has many forms ... but very few sources! How do we present this to young scientists? Explore the Definitions of Energy, PS3A, in a video about the Next Generation Science Standards. The narrator keeps it simple by relating...