Water Explorers Programs
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Water Wiggles
Get ready to wiggle and giggle as we turn on the music and act out ways we use clean water every day! Quacky the Duck will come along for the fun and help us recognize how to care for and save water every day.
TEKS (paraphrased):
- PK4.VI.C.4 Child understands the importance of caring for our environment and our planet
- PK4.VII.A.3 Child connects his life to events, time, and routines.
- PK4.VIII.B.1 Child participates in classroom music activities including singing and moving to rhythms.
- PK4.VIII.C.1 Child creates or recreates stories or experiences through dramatic representations.
Activities: Observe pictures and recognize ways we use water; suggest actions to pantomime ways we use water and repeat them in patterns while playing a musical game; compare ways we use water and choose options that saves water; color a water-themed activity page.
It’s a Waterful World
TEKS (paraphrased):
CONTENT COMING SOONActivities:
CONTENT COMING SOON
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Water Wiggles
Get ready to wiggle and giggle as we turn on the music and act out ways we use clean water every day! Quacky the Duck will come along for the fun and help us recognize how to care for and save water every day.
TEKS (paraphrased):
- PK4.VI.C.4 Child understands the importance of caring for our environment and our planet
- PK4.VII.A.3 Child connects his life to events, time, and routines.
- PK4.VIII.B.1 Child participates in classroom music activities including singing and moving to rhythms.
- PK4.VIII.C.1 Child creates or recreates stories or experiences through dramatic representations.
Activities: Observe pictures and recognize ways we use water; suggest actions to pantomime ways we use water and repeat them in patterns while playing a musical game; compare ways we use water and choose options that saves water; color a water-themed activity page.
It’s a Waterful World
TEKS (paraphrased):
CONTENT COMING SOONActivities:
CONTENT COMING SOON
Where’s That Water?
Listen closely to water as it bubbles, swishes, and flows. Can you guess where water is being used in a home? Learn where this pre-cious water comes from, create a display of home water uses, and model ways to use water wisely. (Indoors)
TEKS (paraphrased):
- S.K.1B: Demonstrate how to conserve water
- S.K.4.B Use senses as tool of observation to identify properties and patterns of objects and events in the environment
- S.K.7.B: Observe and describe physical properties of natural sources of water
- S.K.7.C: Give examples of ways water is useful
Activities: Listen and identify sounds; pour water for different uses; label uses, answer critical-thinking questions; act out ways to conserve water.
Ride a Raindrop
What happens to rain when it falls on the ground? Play raindrop games to learn about their journey, conduct experiments to explore how water moves on the earth, and pick up litter to keep our waterways clean. (Outdoors)
TEKS (paraphrased):
- S.K.1/K.1.A: Conduct outdoor investigations following safety procedures, using materials appropriately, and using environmentally responsible practices
- S. K.1.B: Demonstrate how to use and conserve water
- S.K.2.E: Communicate observations about simple descriptive investigations
- S.K.3.A: Identify and explain a problem such as littering and propose solution
- S.K.3.B: Make predictions based on patterns in nature;
- S.K.4.B Use senses as a tool of observation to identify properties and patterns of events in the natural world
Activities: Play active role-play games; pour water on different surfaces and observe effects; explore outdoors to identify elevation changes and locate drainage pattern; use hand-grabbers to pick up litter.
Aquatic Friends
Get up close with local, water-loving animals! Discover the unique features that help them survive, try to match these ani-mals’ athletic skills, and learn how to protect these important wild neighbors. (Indoors -Gym)
TEKS (paraphrased):
- S.1.2.A: Ask questions about organisms in the natural world
- S.1.7.B. Identify and describe a variety of natural sources of water bodies
- S.1.9.B Analyze examples of interdependence found in various situations (terrariums with caregivers)
- S.1.10: Know that organisms resemble parents and have structures and processes that help them survive
- S.1.10.A: Investigate how characteristics of animals are related to where it lives, how it moves and what it eats
- S.1.10.D observe and record life cycle of animals such as a frog
Activities: Make educated guesses; observe live animals; identify and label structures and processes; move like frogs and compare athletic abilities; draw habitat and life cycle stages; answer critical-thinking questions.
Growing Time
How do plants sense the world and grow? Act out the life of Texas wildflower, illustrate the plant’s life cycle, explore outdoors to collect and sort specimens OR plant water-wise flower seeds to beautify your home or school. (Outdoors)
TEKS (paraphrased):
- S.1.2.A: Ask questions about organisms observed in the natural world
- S.1.5.A: Classify objects by observable properties such as size, weight, shape, color, and texture
- S.1.10: Know that organisms resemble their parents and have structures and processes that help them survive
- S.1.10.B: Identify and compare the parts of plants
Activities: Listen to a story and act out the life of a plant; draw the plant’s life cycle while identifying key structures and proc-
esses; examine real plant parts; collect and classify plant samples outdoors OR plant Texas wildflower seeds in pots.
Water Works
Where does our clean water come from? Become a water engineer and construct a life-size model of our water supply system to provide the clean water our community needs! (Indoors)
TEKS (paraphrased):
- S.2.1.B: identify and demonstrate how to use and conserve water
- S. 2.7.C: distinguish between natural and manmade resources
- SS.6.3.C: identify and local major physical and human geographic features such as water bodies and urban centers
Activities: Listen to a story about our water supply system; work in teams to construct and label components of the water supply system using various building materials; assess how well the model works and make repairs; identify workers
who help bring us water.
Monarch Buddies
Monarch Butterflies face many challenges – can we help Monarchs and save water too? Learn how we can help by recognizing Monarch’s special features, their habitat, and life cycle, and then take turns flying like Monarchs, collecting nectar
and searching for milkweed plants to lay your eggs!
TEKS (paraphrased):
CONTENT COMING SOONActivities:
CONTENT COMING SOON
H2O Engineering
Supplying clean drinking water to people takes talent, technology, and teamwork. Work together to create models of our water sup-
ply system, predict and model changes from population growth and drought, and brainstorm ways to provide enough water to meet
our needs.
TEKS (paraphrased):
CONTENT COMING SOONActivities: Identify ways we use water daily; construct lego models of the local water supply system; model changes from population
growth and drought; propose strategies to meet local water demand.
Keeping it Cool
How do people, plants, and animals stav cool in the summer? Get spritzed to feel water’s cooling power first-hand, conduct your own
evaporation experiment, make a magnetic water-cycle masterpiece, and ponder clues to reveal water-saving strategies. (Outdoors)
TEKS (paraphrased):
- S.3.2 B collect and record observed data
- S.3.2.C construct simple tables using tools to organize and evaluate measured data
- 5.3.2.D analyze and interpret patterns in data to construct explanations based on evidence from investigations
- S.3.2.F communicate valid conclusions supported by data through verbal discussion
- S.3.5.C predict, observe, and record changes in the state of matter caused by heating or cooling such as..liquid water being
heated to the point of becoming water vapor - S.3.8.A observe, measure, record, and compare weather changes in different locations at the same time including air tempera-
ture
Activities: Describe the sensation of evaporation; conduct an evaporation experiment; observe, record, and interpret data; create and label a water cvcle diagram: use clues to identifv wavs to save water.
Water Ninjas
Take an imaginary journey as a water droplet traveling from a cloud all the way to your faucet at home. Use your new knowledge to design and test a high-energy obstacle course for water drops that mirrors part of the urban water cycle! (Indoors)
TEKS (paraphrased):
- S.4.1.B – Make informed choices in the use and conservation of natural resources
- S.4.8.B – Describe the continuous movement of water above and on the surface of Earth through the water cycle
- and explain the role of the Sun as a major source of energy in this process;
- SS.4.9.A – describe ways people have adapted to and modified their environment in Texas such as… construction of dams SS.4.9.B – identify reasons why people have adapted to and modified their environment in Texas such as the use of natural resources to meet basic needs
Activities: Listen to a story; design movements for an obstacle course using props and guidelines; teach movements to peers; test course design and suggest changes; run through the obstacle course multiple times.
Water Rangers
Where does our water come from and how can we save and protect it? Make it rain on a model earth, explore outside to discover how rainwater travels, create a busy cityscape to learn how water becomes polluted, and take action to protect our local waterways. (Outdoors)
TEKS (paraphrased):
CONTENT COMING SOONActivities:
CONTENT COMING SOON
Create a Critter
A wild world of aquatic insects can be found in our waterways! Take a closeup look at their life cycles and adaptations, learn how they are affected by human activities, and create an original macroinvertebrate using your new knowledge.
TEKS (paraphrased):
- S.5.1.B: Make informed choices in the conservation of materials
- S.5.9.A: Observe the way organisms survive in their ecosystem by interacting with living and nonliving components
- S.5.9.C: Predict the effects of changes in ecosystems caused by living organisms, including humans
- S.5.11.A: Compare the structures and functions of different species that help them live and survive in a specific environment
Activities: Observe and compare magnified pictures of a macroinvertebrates; discuss how the macroinvertebrate interacts with it’s world, discover what scientists learn from these organisms, present findings to the class, create a one-of-a-kind macro invertebrate.
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CONTENT COMING SOONTEKS (paraphrased):
CONTENT COMING SOONActivities:
CONTENT COMING SOONPre-Kindergarten
Get ready to wiggle and giggle as we turn on the music and act out ways we use clean water every day! Quacky the Duck will come along for the fun and help us recognize how to care for and save water every day.
TEKS (paraphrased):
- PK4.VI.C.4 Child understands the importance of caring for our environment and our planet
- PK4.VII.A.3 Child connects his life to events, time, and routines.
- PK4.VIII.B.1 Child participates in classroom music activities including singing and moving to rhythms.
- PK4.VIII.C.1 Child creates or recreates stories or experiences through dramatic representations.
Activities: Observe pictures and recognize ways we use water; suggest actions to pantomime ways we use water and repeat them in patterns while playing a musical game; compare ways we use water and choose options that saves water; color a water-themed activity page.
TEKS (paraphrased):
CONTENT COMING SOONActivities:
CONTENT COMING SOON
Kindergarten
Listen closely to water as it bubbles, swishes, and flows. Can you guess where water is being used in a home? Learn where this pre-cious water comes from, create a display of home water uses, and model ways to use water wisely. (Indoors)
TEKS (paraphrased):
- S.K.1B: Demonstrate how to conserve water
- S.K.4.B Use senses as tool of observation to identify properties and patterns of objects and events in the environment
- S.K.7.B: Observe and describe physical properties of natural sources of water
- S.K.7.C: Give examples of ways water is useful
Activities: Listen and identify sounds; pour water for different uses; label uses, answer critical-thinking questions; act out ways to conserve water.
What happens to rain when it falls on the ground? Play raindrop games to learn about their journey, conduct experiments to explore how water moves on the earth, and pick up litter to keep our waterways clean. (Outdoors)
TEKS (paraphrased):
- S.K.1/K.1.A: Conduct outdoor investigations following safety procedures, using materials appropriately, and using environmentally responsible practices
- S. K.1.B: Demonstrate how to use and conserve water
- S.K.2.E: Communicate observations about simple descriptive investigations
- S.K.3.A: Identify and explain a problem such as littering and propose solution
- S.K.3.B: Make predictions based on patterns in nature;
- S.K.4.B Use senses as a tool of observation to identify properties and patterns of events in the natural world
Activities: Play active role-play games; pour water on different surfaces and observe effects; explore outdoors to identify elevation changes and locate drainage pattern; use hand-grabbers to pick up litter.
1st Grade
Get up close with local, water-loving animals! Discover the unique features that help them survive, try to match these ani-mals’ athletic skills, and learn how to protect these important wild neighbors. (Indoors -Gym)
TEKS (paraphrased):
- S.1.2.A: Ask questions about organisms in the natural world
- S.1.7.B. Identify and describe a variety of natural sources of water bodies
- S.1.9.B Analyze examples of interdependence found in various situations (terrariums with caregivers)
- S.1.10: Know that organisms resemble parents and have structures and processes that help them survive
- S.1.10.A: Investigate how characteristics of animals are related to where it lives, how it moves and what it eats
- S.1.10.D observe and record life cycle of animals such as a frog
Activities: Make educated guesses; observe live animals; identify and label structures and processes; move like frogs and compare athletic abilities; draw habitat and life cycle stages; answer critical-thinking questions.
How do plants sense the world and grow? Act out the life of Texas wildflower, illustrate the plant’s life cycle, explore outdoors to collect and sort specimens OR plant water-wise flower seeds to beautify your home or school. (Outdoors)
TEKS (paraphrased):
- S.1.2.A: Ask questions about organisms observed in the natural world
- S.1.5.A: Classify objects by observable properties such as size, weight, shape, color, and texture
- S.1.10: Know that organisms resemble their parents and have structures and processes that help them survive
- S.1.10.B: Identify and compare the parts of plants
Activities: Listen to a story and act out the life of a plant; draw the plant’s life cycle while identifying key structures and proc-
esses; examine real plant parts; collect and classify plant samples outdoors OR plant Texas wildflower seeds in pots.
2nd Grade
Where does our clean water come from? Become a water engineer and construct a life-size model of our water supply
system to provide the clean water our community needs! (Indoors)
TEKS (paraphrased):
- S.2.1.B: identify and demonstrate how to use and conserve water
- S. 2.7.C: distinguish between natural and manmade resources
- SS.6.3.C: identify and local major physical and human geographic features such as water bodies and urban centers
Activities: Listen to a story about our water supply system; work in teams to construct and label components of the wa-
ter supply system using various building materials; assess how well the model works and make repairs; identify workers
who help bring us water.
Monarch Butterflies face many challenges – can we help Monarchs and save water too? Learn how we can help by recog-
nizing Monarch’s special features, their habitat, and life cycle, and then take turns flying like Monarchs, collecting nectar
and searching for milkweed plants to lay your eggs!
TEKS (paraphrased):
CONTENT COMING SOONActivities:
CONTENT COMING SOON3rd Grade
Supplying clean drinking water to people takes talent, technology, and teamwork. Work together to create models of our water sup-
ply system, predict and model changes from population growth and drought, and brainstorm ways to provide enough water to meet
our needs.
TEKS (paraphrased):
CONTENT COMING SOONActivities: Identify ways we use water daily; construct lego models of the local water supply system; model changes from population
growth and drought; propose strategies to meet local water demand.
How do people, plants, and animals stav cool in the summer? Get spritzed to feel water’s cooling power first-hand, conduct your own
evaporation experiment, make a magnetic water-cycle masterpiece, and ponder clues to reveal water-saving strategies. (Outdoors)
TEKS (paraphrased):
- S.3.2 B collect and record observed data
- S.3.2.C construct simple tables using tools to organize and evaluate measured data
- 5.3.2.D analyze and interpret patterns in data to construct explanations based on evidence from investigations
- S.3.2.F communicate valid conclusions supported by data through verbal discussion
- S.3.5.C predict, observe, and record changes in the state of matter caused by heating or cooling such as..liquid water being
heated to the point of becoming water vapor - S.3.8.A observe, measure, record, and compare weather changes in different locations at the same time including air tempera-
ture
Activities: Describe the sensation of evaporation; conduct an evaporation experiment; observe, record, and interpret data; create and label a water cvcle diagram: use clues to identifv wavs to save water.
4th Grade
Take an imaginary journey as a water droplet traveling from a cloud all the way to your faucet at home. Use your new knowledge to design and test a high-energy obstacle course for water drops that mirrors part of the urban water cycle! (Indoors)
TEKS (paraphrased):
- S.4.1.B – Make informed choices in the use and conservation of natural resources
- S.4.8.B – Describe the continuous movement of water above and on the surface of Earth through the water cycle
- and explain the role of the Sun as a major source of energy in this process;
- SS.4.9.A – describe ways people have adapted to and modified their environment in Texas such as… construction of dams SS.4.9.B – identify reasons why people have adapted to and modified their environment in Texas such as the use of natural resources to meet basic needs
Activities: Listen to a story; design movements for an obstacle course using props and guidelines; teach movements to peers; test course design and suggest changes; run through the obstacle course multiple times.
Where does our water come from and how can we save and protect it? Make it rain on a model earth, explore outside to discover how rainwater travels, create a busy cityscape to learn how water becomes polluted, and take action to protect our local waterways. (Outdoors)
TEKS (paraphrased):
CONTENT COMING SOONActivities:
CONTENT COMING SOON5th Grade
A wild world of aquatic insects can be found in our waterways! Take a closeup look at their life cycles and adaptations, learn how they are affected by human activities, and create an original macroinvertebrate using your new knowledge.
TEKS (paraphrased):
- S.5.1.B: Make informed choices in the conservation of materials
- S.5.9.A: Observe the way organisms survive in their ecosystem by interacting with living and nonliving components
- S.5.9.C: Predict the effects of changes in ecosystems caused by living organisms, including humans
- S.5.11.A: Compare the structures and functions of different species that help them live and survive in a specific environment
Activities: Observe and compare magnified pictures of a macroinvertebrates; discuss how the macroinvertebrate interacts with it’s world, discover what scientists learn from these organisms, present findings to the class, create a one-of-a-kind macro invertebrate.
CONTENT COMING SOONTEKS (paraphrased):
CONTENT COMING SOONActivities:
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