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WATER RESOURCES
Listed below are selected teaching resources from BLM national, state, and field offices, listed alphabetically by title.
- To find items for more general audiences, see our Rivers and Riparian Areas listing under Students and Explorers.
- To find listings organized by states, visit Programs in Your Area.
- To search the full text of the Learning Landscapes website, visit the search page.
- To return to the Teaching Resources subject list, select this link.
A Great Basin Full of Activities
Science & Children, May 1995, 31 - 32
A dozen activities on Great Basin ecology and management, covering effects of salt on plants, water conservation and evaporation rates.
http://www.blm.gov/education/00_resources/articles/the_big_empty/classroom.html
BLM-Oregon's Glide School Partnership
1998 BLM Environmental Education feature
Describes middle school partnership for hands on learning re: water quality; 8th grade students collect water quality data used by field office.
http://www.blm.gov/education/feature/1998/or/index.html
Cascade Stream Watch
Outdoor Education
Describes outdoor education facilities at BLM s Wildwood Recreation Site near Salem, Oregon, that allow visitors to learn about stream habitat. Includes a virtual tour, list of partners, and contacts.
http://www.or.blm.gov/EE/EESites/cascade.htm
Exploring Ancient Waterways
Classroom Activities from Science & Children, May 1993 poster back
In these four activities, students model and test ancient technologies used in agriculture such as water diversion and
water retention, and explore how technology solved problems, then and now.
http://www.blm.gov/education/00_resources/articles/hupobi/poster.html
Groundwater Movement
Classroom Activity from Science & Children, September 1996 p. 47
In this activity, students predict how water will move through rock materials such as sand, gravel and clay and then they test their hypotheses.
http://www.blm.gov/education/high_plains/groundwater.html
Living in the Rain Shadow
1997 BLM Environmental Education feature.
Describes 3-day Sand Canyon Environmental Education Program (SEEP) where fifth graders visit a riparian area in California's Mojave desert and learn about the region's history. For more information, contact BLM field office,
Ridgecrest, CA.
http://www.blm.gov/education/feature/feature3.html
Riparian Activity
Classroom Activity from Science & Children, March 1999, p. 39
Students compare the water retention capabilities of both meandering and channelized streams through simulations in the classrooms.
http://www.blm.gov/education/colplateau/classroom/index.html - Riparian%20Activity
Watersheds All Around, Scavenger Hunt
Classroom Activity from Science & Children, March 1998, p. 39
In these two activities students explore what a watershed is and how it works by simulating a watershed in the classroom and then making observations outside.
http://www.blm.gov/education/00_resources/articles/Columbia_river_basin/classroom.html