Educator Resources

Water Quality Testing

  1. Water Quality Station (PDF)
  2. Water Quality Prep (PDF)
  3. Water Wonders station posters, cube faces, English and Spanish (PDF)
  4. Water Quality Testing Instructions (PDF)
  5. Water Quality Testing Data Card (PDF)

Watersheds

  1. Caroline Middle School Watershed Maps (PDF)
  2. Liberty Middle School Watershed Maps (PDF)
  3. Oak Knoll Middle School Watershed Maps (PDF)
  4. Stonewall Middle School Watershed Maps (PDF)
  5. Chickahominy Middle School Watershed Maps (PDF)
  6. Virginia Watersheds (PDF)
  7. Virginia Watersheds-11 x 17 (PDF)
  8. Virginia Watersheds - Blank for Labeling (PDF)
  9. The Chesapeake Air Shed (GIF)
  10. Virginia watersheds with area (PDF)
  11. Wax paper Watershed Model Activity (PDF)
  12. What is a Watershed? (PDF)
  13. Blue Beads Activity Student Copy pages (PDF)
  14. Blue Planet Science Notebook (PDF)
  15. Virginia watersheds with area chart (Excel)
  16. Living in Your Watershed Patch Student Guide 2020 (PDF)
  17. Watershed Investigation Walk - Scavenger Hunt (PDF)
  18. As the River Flows Activity (PDF)
  19. Explore Watersheds Student Notebook (PDF)
  20. Educators Guide to Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience (PDF)
  21. Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement (PDF)
  22. Schoolyard Mesocosm Watershed Model (PowerPoint)

Water Resources

  1. A Waterproof Case Book (PDF)
  2. Healthy Water Healthy People Educator Guide (PDF)
  3. Science Fair Projects - Water Quality for Middle School (PDF)
  4. Water Quality Indicators (PDF)
  5. We All Use Water Science Notebook (PDF)
  6. Healthy Water Healthy People Science Notebook (PDF)
  7. Explore Watersheds Science Notebook (PDF)
  8. Investigate Freshwater Science Notebook (PDF)
  9. Water Cycle Educator Resources (PDF)
  10. Water Cycle Student Page (PDF)
  11. Water Wonders Student Page Water Cycle Score Card (PDF)
  12. Water Wonders Student Page Go to the Head of the Cloud (PDF)
  13. Water Wonders station posters, cube faces, English and Spanish (PDF)
  14. Blue Planet student page (PDF)

Dichotomous Key Activities

  1. How to Use a Dichotomous Key (PDF)
  2. Dichotomous Key Activity Cartoon Faces (PDF)
  3. Student Cartoon Faces without name labels (PDF)
  4. Visual Identification Key for Student Cartoon Faces (PDF)

Soils 

  1. Might Mini Microbes Tale (Soils) Story Coloring Book (PDF)
  2. Caring for the Land Lesson 3-5 (PDF)
  3. Dirt to Dinner (PDF)
  4. Soil Expert Patch Student Guide (PDF)
  5. Native Tree ID (PDF)

STEAM Projects

  1. Energy From Garbage Experiment (PDF)
  2. Science Fair Ideas (PDF)

Waste and Recycling

  1. 11 x 8.5 - Trash Poster (PDF)
  2. 11 x 8.5 - Compost Poster (PDF)
  3. 11 x 8.5 - Recycle Poster (PDF)
  4. Tools to Reduce Waste in Schools (PDF)

Wetlands

  1. Wetlands Scavenger Hunt (PDF)
  2. Wetlands Station (PDF)
  3. Wetlands Teachers Guide (PDF)

Wildlife

  1. Department of Game & Inland Fisheries - Virginia Wildlife Poster 8.5 x 14 (PDF)
  2. Peregrine Falcon Diary (PDF)

Templates

  1. Student Journal Page (Word)

Action projects

  1. GreenSchools Action Project Ideas pages (PDF)
  2. CurriculumIntro.pdf

Contests

MacroInvertebrates

  1. Macro Prep Lesson (PDF)
  2. Macro Station (PDF)
  3. Data Sheet WQT and Macros_202207051440419636 (17).xlsx
  4. Stream Insects & Crustaceans (PDF)
  5. River Key (PDF)
  6. Pond Key (PDF)
  7. Macroinvertebrate Organisms Data Card (PDF)
  8. Macroinvertebrate student data sheet (PDF)
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Riparian Buffers

  1. Lessons from the Bay (PDF)
  2. Riparian Buffer Tree ID Key (PDF)
  3. Riparian Forest Buffers The Link Between Land Water lesson to go with video (PDF)
  4. Native Tree ID (PDF)

Pollution

  1. Acid Rain Activities (PDF)
  2. Carl Gets Some Rest Coloring Book (PDF)
  3. Virginia Watersheds (PDF)

Classroom Kits/Lending Library

These resources are available at no cost to Hanover and Caroline public, private, homeschool, and non-formal educators. For more information or to request materials to support environmental literacy, please contact the District education specialist, Karen Fetty.

Enviroscape Model - Through hands-on interactive demonstrations, students explore point and non-point-source water pollution and discover our shared responsibility for the environment. 

Measuring Evaporation Kit - Designed for grades 3-5, this kit provides the tools, materials, lesson plan, and student data sheet for a hands-on Water Cycle lab, demonstrating absorption and evaporation. Four kits are available, each supplied with materials for ten sets of lab partners (classroom). 

Conservation Education Teacher of the Year  -- Each year the VASWCD recognizes an outstanding conservation education efforts by an elementary (Kindergarten -5th Grade) and  a secondary (6th-12th Grade) teacher with the VASWCD Teacher Award. All teachers in public, parochial and private schools in Virginia are eligible to participate in the program. One teacher in each category is selected at the local SWCD level. State winners will be recognized at the VASWCD Annual Meeting.  First Place Teacher in each category receives a plaque and $250.  Each SWCD may send one nominee in each category (K-5th, 6th-12th). For more information or to request an application, contact District education specialist, Karen Fetty.


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