Do your students have great ideas on how to reduce water pollution? New England’s EPA has a poetry and poster contest. http://www.epa.gov/region01/students/poem.html
Bear Loves Water. (Preschool) By Ellen Weiss.
Brother Eagle, Sister Sky: A Message from Chief Seattle. (4-8 years)
Common Ground: The Water, Earth, and Air We Share. By Molly Garrett Bang.
The Drop in My Drink. (9-12 years) By Meredity Hooper and Chris Coady.
A Drop Of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder. By Walter Wick.
The Earth and I. (4-8 years) By Frank Asch.
Follow the Water from the Brook to the Ocean. By Arthur DorrorsThe Four Elements: Water. (Preschool) By Carme Solé Vendrell and J.M. Parramón
Gullywasher. (4-8 years) By Joyce Rossi. In English and Spanish
I Am Water (4-8 years) By Jean Marzollo.
Magic School Bus: At the Waterwork.s By Joanna Cole. (available in Spanish)
One Small Square: Cactus Desert. (6-10 years) By Donald M. Silver. T
River Ran Wild: An Environmental History. By Lynne Cherry. A history of New Hampshire's Nashua River starting 7,000 years ago until its recent reclamation.
Snail Girl Brings Water. (6-10 years) By Geri Reams. A retelling of a traditional Navaho creation myth which explains how water came to earth.
Splish, Splash, Splosh. (4-8 years) By Mick Manning and Brita Granström. Join the adventures of a young boy and his dog and ride the waves, float on rain-filled clouds, shoot down fast-flowing rivers, and splash through sewers until you get where all water ends…and begins.
This Place is Dry. By Vicki Cobb, Barbara Lavallee (Illustrator).
Water. By Frank Asch.
Water Science, Water Fun: Great Things to Do with H2O. (9-12 years) By Noel Fiarotta and Phyllis Fiarotta. Lessons and experiments teach about floating, refraction, teaching temperature gravity, buoyancy, flow and other water properties.
Water, Water Everywhere (Discovery Readers). By Melvin Berger, Gilda Berger, Bobbi Tull (Illustrator). A book about the water cycle, treatment, distribution, and wastewater treatment.
Where Do Puddles Go? (4-8 years) By Fay Robinson. An early book to explain water cycles and water in all its forms.
Where Does Water Come From? (6-10 years) By C. Vance Cast. Clever Clavin shows how much water there is on earth, how wells are dug to bring it out of the ground, and how water treatment plants work.
Lily Pad Pond, Bianca Lavies
Make Way for Ducklings, Robert McCloskey
Puddles and Ponds, Rose Wyler Rain Drop Splash, Alvin Tresselt A River Dream, Allen Say River Parade, Alexandria Day
The Ugly Duckling, Hans Christian Anderson Willa in Wetlands, Peyton Lewis and Rory Chalcraft
Wheeler, J. Every Drop Counts: A Book About Water (Target Earth).
Squish! A Wetland Walk, Nancy Luenn A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder. Scholastic Trade. 1997. Explore a Spooky Swamp, Wendy W. Cortesi
From Pond to Prairie, Laurence Pringle
In the Middle of the Puddle, Mike Thaler
The Mystery of the Great Swamp, Marjorie A. Sapf Pond and River, Steve Parker The Pond Book, Albro Gaal Wetlands, Linda M. Stone Wetlands: Bogs, Marshes and Swamps, Lewis Buck Wild and Scenic Rivers, National Geographic Society
Jefferies, David. Water: Thematic Unit. Westminster: Teacher Created Materials, Inc., 2000.
Malnor, Bruce & Carol. A Teacher's Guide to Drop Around the World: Lesson Plans for the book A Drop Around the World. Nevada City: Dawn Publications, 1998.