Exploring Your Watershed

This module incorporates an outdoor lesson, a hands-on lesson, and a web-based tool developed by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). All of the files below are part of EPA Report #EPA/600/R-18/203. 

This K-6 interactive lesson-plan module is now available in Spanish!

• Teacher Handout (pdf) (2.32 MB)
  Teacher Guide for use with entire 5E interactive, hands-on, and outdoors lesson module. Contains instructions for preparation, procedure, and alignment with standards.
• Watershed Modeling with Wax Paper, student-led, English (pdf) (210.35 KB)
  Student handout with step-by-step instructions and answer key for use with hands-on, wax-paper watershed modeling lesson in elementary and middle school classrooms.
• Watershed Modeling with Wax Paper, teacher-led, English (pdf) (151.91 KB)
  Student assessment handout that contains questions only and an answer key for use with hands-on, wax-paper watershed modeling lesson in elementary and middle school classrooms.
• Watershed Modeling with Wax Paper, K-3 Resources (pdf) (1.05 MB)
  A suite of resources, including a K-3 teacher script, a coloring page, a word search, and a comic strip for students to fill in after completing the Watershed Modeling with Wax Paper lesson plan.
• Watershed Modeling with Wax Paper, ESL Handout (pdf) (160.3 KB)
  ESL student assessment handout that contains sentence frames and an answer key for use with hands-on, wax-paper watershed modeling lesson in elementary and middle school ESL classrooms.
• Watershed Mapping with EnviroAtlas, Student Instruction Page (pdf) (392.11 KB)
  Printable student instruction sheet to be used during lesson that investigates national and local environmental data in watersheds using maps from www.epa.gov/enviroatlas
• Watershed Mapping with EnviroAtlas, student-led, English (pdf) (213.57 KB)
  Student handout with step-by-step instructions and answer key for use with exploring local watersheds lesson in elementary and middle school classrooms.
• Watershed Mapping with EnviroAtlas, teacher-led, English (pdf) (154.97 KB)
  Student assessment handout that contains questions only and an answer key for use with exploring local watersheds lesson in elementary and middle school classrooms.