Creek Week Educational Resource Guide

Reading books or leading an educational activity related to water is a great way to participate in Creek Week!

For additional ideas visit the Durham Public Schools Outdoor Learning site.

PICTURE BOOKS

  • Where the River Begins by Thomas Locker

  • A Cool Drink of Water by Barbara Kerley

  • 10 Things I Can Do to Help My World by Melanie Walsh

  • The Water Princess by Susan Verde

  • The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry

  • The Adventures of a Plastic Bottle by Alison Inches

  • We Planted a Tree by Diane Muldrow

  • One Plastic Bag by Miranda Paul

  • One World by Michael Foreman

  • The Rhythm of the Rain by Grahame Baker-Smith

  • Penguins Don't Wear Sweaters! by Marikka Tamura and Daniel Rieley

  • A Bucket of Blessings by Surishtha Sehgal and Kabir Sehgal

  • We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom

  • Water Land by Christy Hale

  • Water Is Water: A Book About the Water Cycle by Miranda Paul

  • A River Ran Wild: An Environmental History by Lynne Cherry

  • Water Dance by Thomas Locker

  • All the Water in the World by George Ella Lyon

  • All the Way to the Ocean by Joel Harper

  • Green Darner by Robert M. McClung

  • The Little Raindrop by Joanna Gray

  • Song of the Water Boatman and other Pond Poems by Joyce Sidman

  • The Water Hole by Graeme Base

QUICK CHAPTER BOOKS

  • Wonders of the Fields and Ponds and Night by Jacquellyn Berrill

  • Too Much Rain by Fran Manushkin

  • Beaver Valley by Walter D. Edmonds

Teen and Adult Literature

  • A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

  • A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story by Linda Sue Park

  • They Came From Below by Blake Nelson

  • Flush by Carl Hiaasen 

  • Over and Under the Pond by Kate Messner

  • World Without Fish by Mark Kurlansky

  • One Well: The Story of Water on Earth by Rochelle Strauss

  • Fantastically Great Women who Saved the Planet by Kate Pankhurst

  • Running Dry: The Global Water Crisis by Stuart A. Kallen

  • The Light in the Lake by Sarah R Baughman

  • The Talking Earth by Jean Craighead George

  • Generation Green: The Ultimate Teen Guide to Living an Eco-Friendly Life by Linda Sivertsen

  • The Green Teen: The Eco-Friendly Teen's Guide to Saving the Planet by Jenn Savedge

CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES AND LESSON IDEAS

Watershed Wisdom

PBS-NC Lesson with Videos

Clean Water Education Partnership

CWEP Educator Resources

Watershed Adventure Game
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Watershed-Adventure-Game-3344944

Ferguson Foundation Resources
http://fergusonfoundation.org/teacher_resources/crumpled_paper.pdf

River Basin Educator Guide
https://files.nc.gov/deqee/documents/files/riverbasin-educator-guide-pdf.pdf

NC Forest Service: Where the Water Goes
https://www.ncforestservice.gov/publications/WQ0116.pdf

What is a Watershed
https://www.learningtogive.org/units/watershed-sos-saving-our-sources/what-watershed

The Water Project
https://thewaterproject.org/resources/lesson-plans/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAyKrxBRDHARIsAKCzn8wIydU6pVsAgOxn3sn82ONYBZr4VrSxH5BvEhpeKI-PRmmj2sVdyoUaAu-HEALw_wcB