Talking Water Gardens Scavenger Hunt

How many plants and animals can you find and identify? Share your results on social media using the hashtag #talkingwatergardens

Click here to download the scavenger hunt PDF

Classroom Presentations

After the Flush

Grade: 3-8; Time: 45 minutes

What happens after the flush?  This program uses kitchen wizardry and hands-on activities to understand the fascinating trip our wastewater takes to come clean. Other topics include the water cycle, watersheds, stormwater management, and water conservation.

Stormwater Overview

Grade: All; Time: 45 minutes

What is stormwater and where does it go? This program is designed to introduce students to stormwater and our City’s storm system. Hands-on activities provided.

Resources

Albany’s Watershed Illustration (pdf)

Interactive Resources: 

• Learning and Teaching the Environment, EPA
• USGS Water Science School
• USGS Interactive Water Cycle Diagram (three age levels available)

Videos: 

• Upstream (part 1) & Downstream (part 2)
  4-H Filmmaking
• "Whaddya Know about H2O" series of 29 one-minute videos

Service Project Ideas & Lesson Plans: 

• "Surf Your Watershed"
• Oregon State University Streamwebs, local hands-on watershed stewardship projects

Links:

• Albany ReUse Directory
• For those unusual recyclable items not covered in the ReUse directory, check out this site.
• Linn Benton Salmon Watch, field trip for 4th-6th grades 

Tours

• Albany-Millersburg Water Treatment Plant (drinking water), minimum age group for this tour is 4th grade
• Albany-Millersburg Water Reclamation Facility (waste water),  minimum age group for this tour is 4th grade
• Albany-Millersburg Talking Water Gardens, 778 Waverly Drive NE

Transportation assistance available by submitting a EE funding application when you register for a tour. 

For more information

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