Introducing your students to the marvellous world of water through our creative lessons and activities will help them develop an early appreciation for this most precious resource and equip them to become water-wise citizens of the world.
Included in this section are activities and lessons appropriate for kindergarten through Grade 6 classrooms. Scroll over each lessons to learn more, click to view and print.
Squeeze and Count
A math activity in which students will learn about the finite nature of water resources while practising graph making skills and predicting the outcome of an experiment.
Sound of Water
A series of group activities in which students can visualize the benefits of regular hand washing through visualization and role-play.
Splish Splash
A counting activity in which the class will learn to use music and singing as a way of marking time, as well as monitoring their water use. Splish Splash Handout
Two Seasons
While learning about their own seasons, the children will get a glimpse of what seasons are like in other countries. They will use their predicting and visualizing skills to understand how rain can shape the world around them.
Water and Soil and Worms – Oh My!
The students will use listening skills, past experiences to understand and assemble knowledge about the importance of water and soil before reading Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin. They will make predictions about and identify things that rely on water and soil for their creation and / or well-being, and gain a basic understanding of worms and how they link to water and soil.
Flowing Downhill
Students learn how rivers are formed while practicing the use of new verbs and creating their own river drip art.
Rivers of Time
Students explore the setting of early Canadian life through problem-solving and reading. They will then demonstrate their understanding through a hands-on activity and a written response to an excerpt of the book.
Water Colours
A drawing activity in which students demonstrate awareness of the presence of water in both urban and rural environments. Water Colours Handout, Water Colours Rubric
Water Bingo
A discussion-based activity designed to challenge student’s existing knowledge about water both at home and overseas. Water Bingo Handout
Water Alive!
This is a research-based activity designed to help generate an understanding about universal dependence on water. The students are asked to create an advertisement from the perspective of an African animal, challenging humans to take action on a water issue – related to their animal of choice.
Create a Living Museum
This research-based activity is designed to help students identify and compare the ways in which people in various early civilizations interacted with and used the natural environment. Students are asked to create a poster or a play and make a group presentation to explore this question. Group discussions will identify how past inventions influence how we live today.
Collage – Our Health and Water
This research-based group activity is designed to help students identify the ways in which the human body depends on water for survival and health. Students will need to conduct individual research and then work together in a group to compile a common presentation.
Canada’s Link to the Global Community
A group activity designed to increase student’s knowledge of Canada’s participation in international efforts to address current, global issues. In groups, students will research and make a presentation about Canadian organizations addressing these issues.
Clean Water
An individual activity that uses microscopes to help student’s visualize the differences between clean and contaminated water. Students are then encouraged to think and write about the lives of people in developing countries without access to clean water.
Common Water Diseases
A group presentation on a water-borne disease, designed to encourage students to think about the importance of clean water for human health. Common Water Diseases Handout
Water-Related Book List
A variety of fiction, non-fiction and picture books appropriate for Primary through Intermediate students and teachers.
Seatwork Activity 1
Activity utilizing water-related magazine clippings.) Saved in H2Oh folder: Seatwork Activity 1
Seatwork Activity 2
A variety of worksheets testing noun-adjective matching and writing skills.
Seatwork Activity 3
A variety of matching, writing and critical thinking exercises.
Create a Water Centre
Ideas for setting up an educational Water Centre in your classroom.
