Check out our list of interactive and fun sites for kids and teenagers to learn about water and other environmental topics!
Clean Water
Stream to Sea
K to 12 education to understand, respect, and protect freshwater, estuarine, and marine ecosystems, and to recognize how all humans are linked to these complex environments.
Earth Force
Earth Force engages young people as active citizens who improve the environment and their communities now and in the future. Earth Force works with communities to support young people in finding their voice while assuming leadership roles in solving local environmental problems.
The Water Page
You’re just a kid, what could you possibly do as one person that might make a difference when it comes to saving water? Visit this site for some ideas to get you started!
Discover Water
An interactive water education website—Choose Your Own Adventure style—complete with games, videos, facts, and more to help you learn about the role of water in our lives. From Project WET.
The Water Brothers
Award-winning Canadian TV series about two eco-adventurer brothers who travel the world to explore humans’ relationship with water. Watch episodes online, download teacher’s guides, or check out their interactive learning portal, Dive Deeper.
Fresh Water
The Groundwater Foundation
Educational information, games, and activities for students and educators on groundwater.
World Water Day
March 22 is the international observance of World Water Day, an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro.
Water Conservation Fun and Games for Kids
Discover water-saving tips and games.
Wetlands (Ducks Unlimited Canada)
Parents: learn about wetland conservation with your family. Educators: action projects, lesson plans, and more for your classrooms.
Story of Bottled Water
Watch this video highlighting the story of bottled water, the comparisons with tap water, and the media/marketing role in bottled water.
A science experiment on soil erosion
This experiment, which has a tremendous visual impact due to its simplicity, will demonstrate the relationship between precipitation, soil erosion, and protection of watercourses and vegetation.
All the Water on Planet Earth
How much of planet Earth is made of water? See for yourself!
Storm and Waste Water
Yellow Fish Road Program
Freshwater Conservation Canada has proven to be a huge success in getting Canada’s youth involved in coldwater conservation. Yellow Fish Road™ volunteers paint yellow fish symbols next to storm drains and distribute fish-shaped brochures to nearby households, to remind people that anything that enters the storm drain system ends up in the local waterbody, affecting fish and fish habitat.
City of Edmonton
Offers curriculum-connected Grade 4, 5, and 8 programs that will help teach students about stormwater and wastewater drainage systems.
Other Resources
Activism
NRDC: Get Involved
Got a few minutes? Write a letter to help protect the environment. This site focuses on environmental issues around the world, and includes all the background information you'll need to write a great letter.
Animals
Bug Bytes
This site features audio recordings of insect sounds, many of which are recorded using subterranean microphones. Where else can you hear a fruit fly's song or listen in as a mole cricket burrows through the soil?
Environmental Library
We often hear that a species is threatened or endangered. Isn’t that the same thing? Some people do use these terms interchangeably, but there is a significant difference. Visit this site to learn what the difference is and to see what species are threatened and endangered.
Gaming for Good: Resource List
There are plenty of mobile games that help instil wildlife empathy and environmental action in kids—check out this list courtesy of the North American Association for Environmental Education.
Going Buggy
The question and answer section of this Scholastic website offers "facts and fun about insects." Read up on spiders, bees, and butterflies, and then try the Build Your Own Caterpillar game—it invites players to choose physical attributes that might help a caterpillar face particular threats and analyzes their choices at the end.
Journey North
Track the migrations of birds and mammals at this website, which maps wildlife sightings across North America. If you'd like to add your own data, click the owl icon on any wildlife page to report a sighting.
Climate Change
Climate Change in Your Garden
Learn all about the role of woodlands and trees in the fight against climate change, courtesy of the UK's Woodland Trust.
Environment
Alberta Tomorrow
A free, web-based resource for teachers that involves students in making decisions about how to manage Alberta's ecosystems. Lesson plans are available for Biology 20, Science 20, Science 7, Social Studies 9, Social Studies 10, and Outdoor Ed for the Alberta curriculum.
Campsite 24
This website is for both students and teachers and brings Ontario’s parks and protected areas to your home, classroom, or library. Have fun while you explore the site and learn about environmental protection, plants and wildlife, and Ontario's magnificent provincial parks.
Electronic Recycling Association
ERA reduces electronic waste through computer recycling, laptop recycling, and computer donating services and has depots throughout Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, and BC. ERA provides a great way to recycle electronic equipment safely and securely.
Inside Education
Inside Education is a registered charity that provides natural resources and environmental education focused on forests, water, energy, and related topics.
David Suzuki Foundation
The Suzuki Superhero Challenge has all kinds of fun activities and resources that offer first-hand experience with the natural world. You can also learn how to get kids into nature.
Circular Economy Month
School is the perfect place to practice waste reduction. Students who learn about waste in their classrooms gain good lifetime habits. And they teach their families how to minimize waste. Schools are encouraged to plan Circular Economy Month activities by using the resources listed here.
Habitat
Theatre Acoustic Ecology
A musician named R. Murray Schafer developed the concept of acoustic ecology. He proposed that we should attempt to hear the natural acoustics around us as a composition of music. It is a major concern that our acoustic ecology is deteriorating. Human-created sounds are drowning out the sounds of nature and are affecting wildlife both on land and in the ocean. Whales are being displaced by the sounds of oil drilling, ship traffic is affecting fish, and off-road vehicles are changing the natural habits of many wildlife animals.
oceans
MarineCareers.net
So you want to be a marine biologist, an oceanographer or an underwater filmmaker? Make a splash in your chosen career with the help of this site, part of the National Sea Grant College Program. You'll find job descriptions and salaries, detailed profiles of marine professionals, and tips to help you earn the necessary qualifications and get hired.
Rock and Reef Homes
This Monterey Bay Aquarium feature offers a fun introduction to the sea creatures that live on rocky shores and coral reefs. Short rhymes, songs, games, and video clips describe the two ocean habitats, and the site is packed with colorful photos.
Kids Cove Ocean Futures Society
Welcome to Kids’ Cove, where kids (of all ages) can explore the wonders of the sea while learning about our vital connection to the ocean.
Cities Under the Sea: Coral Reefs
Did your family like the movie Finding Nemo? On this Ocean Future Society website, Jean-Michel Cousteau invites kids to visit Nemo's home and learn what real coral reefs are like. The site explains what corals are, describes the importance of reef biodiversity, and lists the environmental threats reefs face. Each section includes photos, video clips, and audio narration.
Plants
Biology of Plants
This Missouri Botanical Garden website uses simple explanations, animations, and time-lapse videos to teach kids in grades K-3 about plants and how they grow. Sidebars offer definitions of plant vocabulary words, answer common questions and suggest plant-themed song lyrics.
My First Garden
Visit this website for help planning a kid-friendly garden. The University of Illinois Extension site uses simple, fun language to explain each step, from choosing a location to deciding what to plant. Don't forget to come back in a few months to submit a photo to the garden gallery!
Treetures
Websites don't get much cuter than this! The "Treetures" are tiny guardians of the forest who'd love to teach you about trees and how important they are to the environment. Visit the adorably illustrated website to try out tree-themed activities, listen to the Treeture theme song, or send a TreeMail message to your favorite character.
