Watershed Festival season runs from February through March. We have educated 1,985 5th graders on several different water quality concerns. Macro Mayhem is an activity that teaches the kids about the water quality indicators in streams and what they tell us about the stream when they are missing. I like to ask the kids if they know what Maroinvertebrate are. Often they think it has something to do with macaroni. We get a good chuckle out of that. They learn what a watershed is during the presentation with the Enviroscape and marbles table. I have them imagine that they are giants and Watersheds are where puddles form. Build your Watershed really gets the kids excited about what they would construct on their land. They pretend to be gifted with 100 acres of land. I love to see the kids build huge castles. They rarely remember that with huge castles come many bathrooms. We ask them what they are going to do with all that waste. In the Ground Water Flow Model, kids learn how water can actually pollute upstream. Lastly, with Drop in the Bucket we teach the children how it could be that we only have about .03% of all water to drink on the planet. We have two more Watershed Fests to go!
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