Imagine a Day Without Water - October 16!

Water is a shared resource that powers our community—our homes 🏡, schools 🏫, businesses🏢, and our health and well-being❤️

On October 16, we're observing Imagine A Day Without Water to highlight how water powers us.

Click the link to get involved. 

Activities & Worksheets

Download the PDFs linked below and print them at home or through a local print shop.

• Printable Activity Sheets for Kids (Color + B&W)

• Printable Coloring Sheets

• Printable Home Water Worksheet

Looking for lesson plans, field trip opportunities, or teacher workshops?

Explore the curated resources included below to bring water education to life in your classroom.

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💧Water Festival Presentation Resources 

    📂Downloadable Guides:

• A Place for Rain - Educator Guide
• Bird Conservancy - A Guide to Backyard Birds of the Front Range

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🏫Classroom & Student Activities    

🎲Interactive lessons, games, and classroom-ready materials:

• Water Science School | U.S. Geological Survey 🧰
• Wyland Foundation 🧰
• Project Wet 🧰 
• DiscoverWater.org 🎮
• NOAA Boulder 💻💁
• Metro Water Recovery 💻 🚌 🧰 
• Colorado Climate Center 💻 🚌 🧰 
• Environmental Protection Agency 💻🎮
• Check out "WaterSense" and "Drinking Water & Groundwater"

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🚌Field Trips & Reverse Field Trips

    ✋Hands-on, local, and experiential learning opportunities:

• Bird Conservancy of the Rockies -🍃
• Environmental Learning Kids 
• Denver Audubon 
• PaintCare's Youth Outreach 
• South Platte Renew - 🧰
• Zoo to You - Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance 🧰
• Check out "Make it Bloom" about Native Plants + Animals
• Butterfly Pavilion -🍃💁
• Denver Botanic Gardens - 💻💁

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🎓Teacher Professional Development

• Colorado Project WET | Colorado Water Center at CSU
• Metro Water Recovery
• Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance
• Denver Botanic Gardens
• Metropolitan State University - Water Studies online certificate
• Keystone Science School

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Miscellaneous

   🔧Renew Our Schools - Resource Central

    💬Water Education Exemplars Project - Colorado Stormwater Council

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These icons indicate additional offerings: 

💻virtual, 🚌field trip, 🧰download, 🎮game, 💁resources, 🍃afterschool club

Create. Inspire. Protect. - Wyland Challenge

 

October Kicks off the Wyland National Art Challenge! A fantastic opportunity for classmates to learn about conservation through creativity. Read more about the Wyland National Art and Mural Challenge Skip right to the TeachersGuide.pdf

Youth Water Festival

Hands-on water science for 5th graders

Free to schools. Bus transportation is provided. Interactive stations on water chemistry, aquatic life, local water systems, and conservation.

Next event: May 14, 2026   Capacity: 800 students   Target: 5th grade

Teacher Resources

What to expect

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  Interactive stations: water chemistry, aquatic life, local water supply, and conservation.
• Standards-aligned: activities mapped to NGSS/Colorado Academic Standards.
• Chaperone resources: pre-event teacher packet, station rotations, and assessment ideas.

How selection works

We receive many requests and can accommodate up to 800 students. Submit the registration form — schools will be selected and notified by email in December.

FAQs

• Can more than one class from a school attend?
• Typically, we can host one grade level per school. If you have a special request, please note it on the form, and we'll do our best to accommodate it where possible.
• What happens after I submit the form?
• You will receive a confirmation email. If selected, we'll send a packet with logistics, bus scheduling details, and teacher materials in the Spring.
• What should students bring?
• Bring a sack lunch, water bottle, and comfortable shoes for moving between stations.
• What time will the festival be?
• The Festival runs from 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Buses will arrive at schools around 8:45 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. and will drop you off before 2:00 p.m.

*To be added to the announcement list, please complete the contact form.

Free for schools • Buses provided