Classroom Visit
Classroom Visit
Through classroom visits, we seek to create meaningful childhood experiences connected to water resources. Through hands-on and interactive activities, we hope to increase understanding and stewardship of water resources in children, their teachers, and families.
2024-2025 School Year
Visits are scheduled on a seasonal basis (fall, winter, spring), with up to one visit per classroom per season. There are a limited number of slots, and we'll close scheduling once they are filled.
Example Activities
Choose an example activity or work with us to customize a lesson! For photos of each of these activities, visit our Educational Tools Library. Contact Eleanor at emahon@rpbcwd.org for questions about activities or lesson plans.
Lessons typically last a class period (45-55 min), but we can work with shorter time slots if needed.
We bring in live aquatic insects, let the kids sort through them, and talk about their importance to healthy lakes and creeks. For this one we can also have the kids go out and collect insects if there is an easy-to-access pond/creek/lake nearby.
We have a dress-up trunk shaped like a canoe and filled with gear. Kids get to try on things and play, and learn about water safety and the work that the watershed does.
A collection of rotating activities designed to show students the impacts of both point and nonpoint source pollution.
We bring our sampling boat to your school. On it is hidden pictures of aquatic invasive species. The kids inspect the boat to find them and we talk about what they are, and why they are trouble.
We'll use our groundwater model to Explore the hidden world of aquifers. See how groundwater and surface waters, like lakes and streams, can interact.
How does water move through a watershed? How does topography influence water? We'll explore by moving the sand in our interactive sandbox.
With a roll of a cube, students simulate the movement of water within the water cycle.
