Stormwater Sentries
https://www.facebook.com/stormwatersentriesgame
Stormwater Sentries is an online stormwater game that promotes awareness of the environmental impact from stormwater runoff into the Chesapeake Bay. Players take on challenges, complete missions, earn money and work to create a sustainable town designed to reduce stormwater runoff.
Stormwater Sentries was designed to demonstrate the impact our decisions have on our private property to local stream health. The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay wanted to create a fun and engaging experience to educate the community on how to make wiser environmental decisions that improve water quality in nearby streams, rivers, and the Chesapeake Bay. The game went live on April 10, 2014 and is available on Facebook: Stormwater Sentries.
Georgetown County, South Carolina
http://www.georgetowncountycleanwater.com/kids/
The area you are in is part of a watershed and the water is flowing somewhere. Every raindrop from a storm falls into a watershed. Where does the stormwater from your yard go? It flows to the nearest lake, river or stream, and eventually to the ocean. Everyone lives in a watershed (except the astronauts in the Space Station)! How about the stormwater from your school, where does it go? Is it in the same watershed as your yard? All of the water in Georgetown County ultimately ends up in the Atlantic Ocean where you swim and play.
Boardgames as a Tool for Teaching Basic Sustainability Concepts to Design Students
One aspect of sustainability that often baffles design students is the need to balance concepts such as the triple bottom line (environment, economy and social issue) with the product’s life cycle in their design process. In some cases, this is a result of a lack of understanding of interactions between these aspects since the theoretical part of them is often removed from the student’s daily life experience. One proposal to solve this barrier and allow for a better understanding and integration is the use of board games. Board games have shown to be a useful tool to teach conflict resolution, strategy development, forward and lateral thinking, either through cooperation or competition. Therefore they can be used to teach basic sustainability concepts (i.e. the tragedy of the commons, population bomb) and their participation in the triple bottom line.
Nonpoint Source Educational Materials for Students
https://www.epa.gov/nps/nonpoint-source-educational-materials-students
Become an Aquatic Crusader and join Darby Duck in the fight against water pollution! What is the Crusaders’ weapon?
Understanding! Understanding the characteristics of water, that precious resource we are trying to protect. And understanding how it interacts with other elements in the environment, some of which pollute it and cause problems for people and animals.
How do kids become Aquatic Crusaders? There are seven experiments for to try that teach the characteristics of water. When kids complete all seven of the Aquatic Crusader tasks, they join Darby’s Crusaders too!
Stormwater Education for Kids: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
https://water.unl.edu/article/stormwater-management/stormwater-education-kids
Stormwater Activity Sheets can be downloaded and used with the Stormwater Sleuth comic book or on their own. They are designed for students from 4th – 6th grades but may be appropriate for other ages as well.
The Sustainability Games
As a part of the Princeton Art Museum’s Late Thursday program, The Art of Sustainability class held a participatory art event entitled the Sustainability Games. Watch as Professor Jenny Price and her students prepare and create various fun and educating games that engage the public in sustainable activities.
Runoff
This video game was conceived and created in Burlington, Vermont, on the shores of Lake Champlain. Every year, thousands of gallons of stormwater runoff surge into the lake. This warms and pollutes the water, and hurts native plants and animals.
Runoff the game demonstrates how rain barrels and rain gardens stop stormwater runoff and filter it before it reaches the lake.
And playing the game will actually help improve Lake Champlain’s water quality — Runoff is free to play, but for each of the first 1000 games played, Seven Days, Vermont’s independent newsweekly, and Kids VT, the state’s parenting publication, will donate a quarter to the Let It Rain stormwater program. Let It Rain provides financial incentives to property owners in Vermont’s Lake Champlain basin, helping them to install rain barrels and implement other stormwater-reduction strategies.
Freddy the Fish Teaches About Stormwater
Freddy the Fish teaches kids about what happens to rain after it hits the ground, where storm drains lead to, and what we can do to help prevent water pollution. Produced by the North Central Texas Council of Governments Environment & Devlopment Department.
Stormwater Quiz Game Show
http://www.nctcog.org/envir/seeclean/stormwater/program-areas/public_education/stormwatergame.asp
The Stormwater Quiz Show Game is an interactive teaching tool for educators to use to teach students about various topics involving Stormwater. The game was developed at NCTCOG under the guidance of the Stormwater Public Education Task Force. It comes pre-loaded with three levels of questions targeted towards K-12 grade levels. The game also comes with an easy to use companion program that allows teachers to modify the questions and create their own custom games.
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“Know Where it Goes” Stormwater Game
https://web.uri.edu/riss/files/EducatorsKids.SWGame. pdf
Play this game to teach children about the different pollutants that water “picks up” as it travels through the environment, and reinforce the steps that people can take to remove pollutants from the environment and thereby keep water clean. Developed for use with the University of Rhode Island Learning Landscapes Program in conjunction with RI Stormwater Solutions
Cleanwater Kids Games and School Programs
http://www.cleanwaterways.org/kids/
Ever see someone pour motor oil into a storm sewer? Use the nearest ditch to dispose of grass clippings with the leaf blower? Did you ever wonder where it all ends up? Galveston Bay. Substances that make their way into the City of Houston and Harris County storm water drainage system flow directly into our bayous, rivers and ultimately, into the Bay. If storm water is contaminated by contact with pollutants, then that’s how it stays. Storm water receives no treatment. This Web site will help you learn what you can do to keep our water clean for generations to come.
Resources for Educators:
UNC-Charlotte Resources for Educators
https://ideas.uncc.edu/regional-stormwater-partnership/stormwater-educators
Extensive educational resources for Kindergarten through 6th grade, 6th grade through college, homeowners and adults, and for professionals
Pinterest: Stormwater Education Ideas
https://www.pinterest.com/purpleeann/stormwater-education-ideas/
Ideas, crafts, tools and other educational materials for the education of stormwater pollution.