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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