waterconservation

Online Activities	Printout Activities	Virtual Field Trips
Amazing and Fun Facts	Water You Up To (pdf)	Sites to Visit
Water Festival	Down the Drain	Home

	Watershed Game		Water Concentration
	Water Saving Adventure Game		Water Quiz
	Fix Water Problems: Waterhogs		Evaporation Challenge
	Ground Water Quiz		Water Challenge
	Waste No Words		Water Flashcard
	Wetlands Quiz		Water Matching Game
	Water Quality Trivia Quiz		Another Water quiz
	Water Word Scramble		Wrong with this Picture
	Water Questionaire		Demo of Splash Game

	Crossword Puzzle		Water Cycle Coloring Page
	Word Scramble 1		Word Scramble 2
	Word Search 1		Word Search 2
	Buster Backflow Comic		Mr. Leaky Activity Pages
	Willie's Uncle Coloring Book		Help Save Water Coloring Page

Have you ever taken a virtual field trip? If not, you're missing a great opportunity. You can visit outside your room without ever opening the door! Like regular field trips, virtual field trips are designed to be entertaining and you will learn too!

	WATER CYCLE TOUR		SURFACE WATER TREATMENT TOUR
	GROUNDWATER TOUR		VIRTUAL HOUSE TOUR
	HOW MUCH CAN YOU SAVE WATER-TOUR		WATER TREATMENT PLANT
	BUILD A VIRTUAL POND		OUR WATER PLANET

	Design your own Word Search using "water words"
	The many adventures of "DRIPPY THE RAINDROP"
	BRAINPOP - Look for the movie on water and the water cycle!
	Follow a drop of water from the moment it falls to the earth as rain.
	Our Blackstone River Watershed
	Our Charles River Watershed
	Careers in Water Conservation
	Remarkable Women in Water Careers
	Brochure on Water Careers

Deepest Spot in the Ocean
The deepest spot in the ocean is called the Mariana Trench and is 35,979 feet deep in the Pacific Ocean. That's deeper than the height of the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest, which is 29,002 feet high.

Highest Lake
Lake Titicaca in Peru is the highest lake in the world. It is about 12,500 feet (3,810 meters) above sea level. This lake is also South America's second largest freshwater

Lowest Lake
The lowest lake is the Dead Sea (it's considered a lake but called a sea) which is in Jordan, Israel. The surface of the water is 1,302 feet below sea level. The Dead Sea is also the saltiest lake in the world. Almost nothing can survive in it besides some special green algae.

Largest Ocean
Pacific Ocean also goes home with the award for being the largest ocean. It covers a third of the Earth's surface and goes from the Bering Sea in the Arctic north to the icy waters of Antarctica's Ross Sea in the south.

Smallest Ocean
The smallest ocean is the Arctic Ocean which is about 10 times smaller than the Pacific Ocean.

Longest River
The Nile River in Egypt, Africa is the longest river. It's 4,145 miles long and flows into the Mediterranean Sea

Largest Waterfall
Angel Falls (Salto Angel) in Canaima National Park, Venezuela is the largest waterfall at 3212 feet (979 meters.)

97 % of earth’s water is in the oceans. Only 3 % of the earth’s water can be used as drinking water. 75 % of the world’s fresh water is frozen in the polar ice caps.

Although a person can live without food for more than a month, a person can only live without water for approximately one week.

The average person in the United States uses 80 to 100 gallons of water each day. During medieval times a person used only 5 gallons per day.

It takes 2 gallons to brush your teeth, 2 to 7 gallons to flush a toilet, and 25 to 50 gallons to take a shower.

For more information on Water, view our "WATER YOU UP TO" NEWSLETTER . (click the drop to go to the PDF file).

This Internet-based collaborative project allowed students in the Bellingham Summer Enrichment Program to share information about water usage with other students from around the country and the world. Based on data collected by their household members and their friends, we determined the average amount of water used by one person in a day. We compared this to the average amount of water used per person per day in other parts of the world and posted the results online, our pictures online and our student newsletter.

The students in the Bellingham Summer Enrichment Program that participated in this project received a water bottle and water saver kit from the DPW and Ms. Fafard.

This webpage was made by Liz Wernig, 2002 The Bellingham Summer Enrichment Program sponsored by the DPW along with Ms. Fafard, grant coordinator

Jump on in and don't worry about making a splash!