Lesson Resources
Explore ready‑to‑use lessons, videos, activities, and workshops that bring local water and climate science to life in your classroom or homeschool.
Burning Questions: Exploring Changing Wildfire in Idaho
In this hands-on lesson, students investigate how wildfire behaves in three different Idaho ecosystems—and how those patterns are shifting due to climate change. Working in small groups, they explore photos and plant materials, build a model of their ecosystem, and simulate how fire spreads.
Grade level: 4-12
Duration: 90 minutes
IdEEA Climate Cohort Unit
This unit is designed to help students explore their community’s connection to the global phenomena of climate change. Students will employ several methods of investigation including models, examining charts, a documentary, and a Socratic seminar, and will design a research poster to share what they've learned.
Grade level: 6
Duration: 90 minutes
Aquatic Macroinvertebrates Lesson
Using a local body of water, collect aquatic macroinvertebrates with your students to learn what they indicate about water quality. Nets and some supplies available to borrow from the WaterShed. See the Lending Library Page.
Grade level: K-12
Duration: 90 minutes or more, location dependent
Water Conservation
In this lesson, students learn how little fresh water exists on our planet and how precious of a resource it is. By thinking about our daily and yearly water use in our homes, schools and communities, students will think about how we can conserve water in the Treasure Valley.
Grade level: 4-12
Duration: 90 minutes
