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Center for Environmental Literacy

Watershed Explorer Curriculum

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Bringing Nature & Art into the Classroom - and getting Students and their Creations outside the Classroom.

Watershed Explorer Curriculum

The Watershed Explorer Curriculum incorporates language skills, art, science, history, and culture into activities and exercises for kindergarten through high-school students.

Email rowinfo@stmarys-ca.edu to receive a free PDF of the full curriculum copy.

Select activites from the Watershed Explorer Curriuclum are also available here on our website. See links below!

Activities

frog

What is a Watershed? Part 1

Watershed Explorer Curriculum Activity

Help students to learn the basics about their watersheds with this step-by-step video activity.

mira

What is a Watershed? Part 2 - Creating a Watershed in Your Hand!

Watershed Explorer Curriculum Activity

Help your students to learn how to create a miniature watershed model that demonstrates the basic geography of a watershed, how water flows through the system, and the impact people can have on the quality of our water.

Textures of Nature

Watershed Explorer Curriculum Activity

The world is full of a variety of textures. Learning how to sense textures in three-dimensional forms can help students learn how to represent textures two-dimensionally. In this fun activity, we’ll be investigating and describing our natural world by creating rubbings of different textures.

Mystery Item Activity

Watershed Explorer Curriculum Activity

This fun activity will help students to discover the interconnectedness of ecosystems, as they use observation and imagination to think about a Mystery Item in the natural world.

How to Make a Kite

Watershed Explorer Curriculum Activity

Build a kite, of course, and learn about them in the process!

2019 Earth Day, Postcard Activism, River of Words

Postcard Activism

Kids can be activists too! Check out this easy Postcard activity you can do at home! Perfect for artists and poets and gives you everything you need to make your voice heard.

The Nest Project, 2020 River of Words, Watershed Explorer Curriculum

The Nest Project

Fun and easy activity to explore your own backyard or neighborhood and think like a bird! Build your own nest out of natural and handy household items.