Water Related Teaching Resources:

We have a couple of activities you can download right here:

Grade 3 - A craft and story about the food web in an ecosystem: Click to Download

(PDF 2779Kb)



Junior Level - Fish and their habitats, a lesson and work sheets: Click to Download Part 1 (PDF 2539Kb) & Part 2 (PDF 1692Kb)

But there are a lot more out there for you to use:

• from Environment Canada



• from the Canadian National Water Research Institute



• from the Official Atlas of Canada



• from Ohio State University



• from the US Environmental Protection Agency

Games, Puzzles and Lessons
For Children and Youth:

We've got a few games you can download right here, but there is so much on the web we thought we would let you go and see all of them too.

• Word Search
(PDF 49Kb)


• Crossword Puzzle (PDF 89Kb)



• Solutions for Word Search and Crossword Puzzle (PDF 342Kb)



• "Name that Fish" Picto Game (solution included) (PDF 1133Kb)



• Colouring Puzzle Page
(PDF 77Kb)


• Can You Find the Difference? (PDF 352Kb) (solution) (PDF 325Kb)








• Fisheries and Ocean's Canada Funzone - Puzzles, Games and great information.



• You can also go to the Big Blue Bus, a great site for games, contests and the chance to become a Planet Protector, from Fisheries and Oceans Canada.



• Find out how a Salmon grows from an egg at the bottom of a stream into an adult who can swim for hundreds of miles into the ocean (or less to a Great Lake), then returns to the very stream it was born in to lay eggs of its own by clicking here.



• To learn all about the tiny animals that live everywhere in the streams that are called invertebrates, click here.



• The Watershed Game is an interactive watershed planning and management game. Make decisions about water use in national parks, agricultural lands, cities or neighbourhoods. It was developed by the Bell LIVE! program at the Bell Museum of Natural History at the University of Minnesota. Bell LIVE! provides science-based learning adventures for students and teacher grades 4-8 throughout the U.S. and Canada.



• Great Lakes Kids - Tons of games, activities and quizzes from Environment Canada.



• US EPA Student Centre - lots of great resources and information geared to youth.