Enhance your Cleanup with Education!

To help you educate your participants about nonpoint source pollution, Rivers Alive has compiled a list of activities you can use to reach different audiences. We want participants to understand how every individual has a role in protecting our waterways. Below are ideas for water quality education activities and displays that can be done in conjunction with or as a follow-up to a Rivers Alive event.

Activities and Information for School and Scout Groups
Hands-On Activity Stations

Activities from the Georgia Adopt-A-Stream's Educator Guide
Volunteering monitoring program

Activity from Project WET USA: The Incredible Journey water cycle activity
Project WET is Water Education for K-12 teachers. The goal is to facilitate and promote awareness, appreciation, knowledge, and stewardship of water resources.

Activities from the USA EPA: Test Your Water Smarts
Take this quiz to test your water smarts, then give the quiz to family and friends to test their knowledge on water quality

Enviroscape(R)- Watershed & Nonpoint Source Model

Nonpoint Source Kids Page

Turning the Tide on Trash: Marine Debris Curriculum

Activities from The Water Sourcebook

Suggested Activities:
  • A Salt Water-y World activity
  • Clean Up Activity
  • N, B, & T: Pollutants Three
  • Stop That Sediment

Play Water Jeopardy
Using this activity designed by the U.S. Geological Survey, students will review what they have learned about hydrology and its importance to all ecosystems.

Use Enviroscape Models
Non-point Source Pollution Enviroscape models allow learners to see pollution and runoff. These may be borrowed from the UGA Cooperative Extension Service 4-H District Offices and Project WET. When you visit the website, click on the map for the counties served by each district.

Girl Scout Water Drop Patch
The Water Drop Patch Project inspires Girl Scouts to learn about water quality and to take action in their communities to protect and restore local water resources.

Activities and Information for the General Public
Baldwin County 4-H Club- Way to go!
Water Facts
Handouts from US EPA

Streams in the City
Facts and information on water in an urban area

Stop Pointless Personal Pollution
Information on how everyday chores can harm the streams and lakes

Nonpoint Source Pointers Fact Sheets
Provides 11 pointers with background information on nonpoint source pollution and managing techniques

Water Resources Toolkit provided by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs
Storm Drain Stencils, Recycling, & Nonnative Plant Species Information
Storm drain stencils are excellent education tools to help combat water pollution.

Recycling Resources for All Ages
Recycling is an excellent way to help reduce unnecessary waste and to make the best of the earth's resources

Reduce, Reuse, & Recycle: Environmental Education Resources

Recycling Saves Money

Georgia Exotic Pest Plant Council
Bring awareness to nonnative plant species

Invite an Environmental Education Organization
To locate a directory of Georgia Environmental Education Providers and other environmental education material, visit Environmental Education in Georgia.
Adopt-A-Stream Program
Invite a coordinator from the Adopt-A-Stream program, Rivers Alive's parent program, to talk about nonpoint source pollution and their volunteer water-monitoring program. Georgia Adopt-A-Stream encourages individuals and communities to monitor and/or improve sections of streams, wetlands, lakes or estuaries. Manuals, training, and technical support are provided through Georgia EPD and more than 50 established local Adopt-A-Stream organizers. You can also request copies of the You're the Solution to Water Pollution brochure and poster to distribute
Further Education Opportunities for After Your Event
Wheeler County 4-H Club after cleaning up
School and Scout Groups
General Public
Training for Citizens: A rain garden receives stormwater runoff water from roofs or other hard surfaces such as driveways. The rain garden holds the water on the landscape so that it can soak into the ground instead of flowing into a street and down a storm drain.
Form A Partnership!

Contact an Environmental Organization Near You

A directory of Georgia Environmental Education Providers can be found at EEinGeorgia.org, whose goal is to build statewide capacity for environmental education by providing EE lesson plans based on Georgia's curriculum standards, a searchable directory of Georgia's EE organizations and the resources they offer, a statewide calendar of EE events, EE news, and easy-to-access facts about Georgia's environment.