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Bullfrog Life Cycle Choose Your Own Adventure
Bullfrog Life Cycle Choose Your Own Adventure

How do bullfrogs grow and survive in the wild? Discover their lifecycle and learn what makes them special!

WildlifeOnline Activitieswildlife educationonline-activities
Charlottesville Stream Health
Charlottesville Stream Health

Discover the Rivanna River Watershed in this ArcGIS Story Map.

WatershedsResourceswatersheds educationresources
Dipnetting at Camp Albemarle
Dipnetting at Camp Albemarle

Let’s get in the Moorman’s River to find out what lives beneath the surface. Watch the video, then use the field guide and assessment to help us determine the health of the river.

WatershedsCrafts and Activities, Videoswatersheds educationcrafts-and-activities videos
Earth Day Quiz
Earth Day Quiz

Celebrated annually on April 22, Earth Day demonstrates global support for environmental protection. Test your knowledge with this Earth Day quiz, then check your answers.

OtherWorksheetsother educationworksheets
Fireworks in a Jar
Fireworks in a Jar

This easy science project mimics colorful fireworks explosions and is a perfect craft for your Independence Day celebrations. You can work together to re-create the bursts of cascading color we see with fireworks displays by using a few basic ingredients you likely already have in your cabinets.

Click here to watch a video demonstration of Fireworks in a Jar.

OtherCrafts and Activitiesother educationcrafts-and-activities
How Leaves Change Color
How Leaves Change Color

Fall is the time of year to watch a “tree-mendous” magic show!

PlantsColoring Pagesplants educationcoloring-pages
K-12 Soil Science Teacher Resource
K-12 Soil Science Teacher Resource

Teachers, here it is! A bank of many lessons and hands-on activities all about soils and topics related to soils. You can search for materials by grade level, subject, and/or type of lesson.

SoilCrafts and Activitiessoil educationcrafts-and-activities
Leaves of Three, Leave It Be
Leaves of Three, Leave It Be

Click on the link to identify Poison Ivy or you may need an ocean of calamine lotion.

PlantsCrafts and Activities, Gamesplants educationcrafts-and-activities games
Make a Rain Barrel with TJSWCD
Make a Rain Barrel with TJSWCD

Demonstration video of assembling a rain barrel kit.

ConservationVideosconservation educationvideos
Muskrat Mission Choose Your Own Adventure
Muskrat Mission Choose Your Own Adventure

Learn about one of our native mammals that depends on healthy water in this fun game.

Watersheds, WildlifeOnline Activitieswatersheds wildlife educationonline-activities
Soil Health Fundamentals
Soil Health Fundamentals

While every farm is different, there are several basic principles that farmers use to build healthy soil. Kiss the Ground provides this visual chart that represents 6 fundamental farming principles and practices that increase biodiversity, enrich soils, restore watersheds, and enhance ecosystem services.

SoilResourcessoil educationresources
Stormwater Run, Run, Runoff
Stormwater Run, Run, Runoff

Stormwater is water that originates from rain, including snow and ice melt. Stormwater can soak into the soil, be stored on the land surface in ponds and puddles, evaporate, or contribute to surface runoff. This Stormwater Activity Book is filled with matching games, mazes, and crossword puzzles to help better understand stormwater.

WatershedsColoring Pages, Crafts and Activities, Games, Worksheetswatersheds educationcoloring-pages crafts-and-activities games worksheets
Virtual Climate Camp with the Community Climate Collaborative
Virtual Climate Camp with the Community Climate Collaborative

Virtual and interactive activities presented by the Community Climate Collaborative (C3) for Earth Month.

ConservationCrafts and Activities, Videosconservation educationcrafts-and-activities videos
Water Filtration DIY Activity
Water Filtration DIY Activity

97% of all water on Earth’s surface is found in the oceans. This water is salty. The remaining 3% is freshwater, which is distributed into varying amounts. Specifically, 68% of that freshwater is trapped in glaciers and icecaps. 30% of this freshwater is trapped below you as groundwater. This means no matter where you are standing on Earth, it is a possibility that, at a given depth, the ground below you contains water. The remaining percent of freshwater is surface water such as rivers, lakes, and swamps. Unfortunately, most of the water, which comes from oceans, is not available for use. Much of the water that people use comes from rivers or groundwater. Therefore, a lot of the water used is transported to a water treatment plant, where it is cleaned so that it can be reused.

This DIY Water Filtration activity will demonstrate how muddy water goes through three different stages of filtration becoming more clear right before your very eyes. Attention! Do not drink the water in this activity.

OtherCrafts and Activitiesother educationcrafts-and-activities
Watershed Kahoot
Watershed Kahoot

Test your watershed knowledge in this trivia game.

WatershedsOnline Activitieswatersheds educationonline-activities
Ways to Take the Sting out of Nature
Ways to Take the Sting out of Nature

While the honey bee gets most of the credit for providing pollination, there are actually about 4000 species of bees in North America. Check out the Bee Identification Guide to “safely” learn more. Or visit www.pollinator.org.

WildlifeResourceswildlife educationresources
What's Your Carbon Footprint?
What’s Your Carbon Footprint?

Nature can provide at least 30% of the mitigation action needed to prevent the most harmful impacts of climate change. Currently, the world’s forests store more carbon than is in the entire atmosphere. Yet, deforestation contributes 11% of global greenhouse gas emissions — more than all passenger cars combined. Protecting forests and other natural ecosystems is one of the fastest and most effective ways to curb global climate change. Solving climate change requires reducing carbon emissions. When you offset your footprint, you neutralize your emissions by protecting forests that absorb carbon from the atmosphere. What’s your carbon footprint? Check out the Carbon Footprint Calculator.

ConservationOnline Activitiesconservation educationonline-activities