Stormwater Education Kit
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A hands-on classroom kit for teaching students about stormwater runoff, pollution prevention and local waterways.
The askHRgreen.org Stormwater Education Kit helps bring water quality lessons to life in the classroom. Designed for third-grade teachers in Hampton Roads, the kit includes hands-on activities, visual aids, reading resources, worksheets and outdoor exploration tools that help students understand how stormwater runoff affects local waterways.
Teachers can check out a physical kit of supplies to use in the classroom and return when finished. The Teacher’s Guide is also available to download for lesson instructions, SOL connections and supporting materials.
About the Kit
Stormwater runoff is created when rainwater or snowmelt flows over hard surfaces like roofs, sidewalks, streets and parking lots. As it moves across the ground, runoff can pick up pollutants such as litter, pet waste, lawn chemicals, soil and other materials before flowing into storm drains and local waterways.
The Stormwater Education Kit helps students make the connection between everyday actions on land and the health of local rivers, streams and the Chesapeake Bay. Through classroom demonstrations, reading activities and schoolyard exploration, students learn how pollution reaches local waterways and what they can do to help prevent it.
What Students Will Learn
Using the activities and resources in the kit, students will learn how stormwater forms, where storm drains lead and how human activities can affect local water quality.
Learning topics include:
- How rainwater and snowmelt become stormwater runoff
- How storm drains and ditches carry runoff to local waterways
- Common sources of stormwater pollution
- How polluted runoff can harm ecosystems and habitats
- How Hampton Roads watersheds connect to local rivers, streams and the Chesapeake Bay
- Simple actions students and families can take to help protect water quality
What’s Included In The Kit
The Stormwater Education Kit includes a mix of classroom materials and activity supplies designed to make stormwater lessons more interactive and easy to teach. The physical kit is available as a loaner resource and should be returned after classroom use.
Kit resources include:
- A Teacher’s Guide with lesson information, activity instructions, worksheets and SOL connections
- Visual aids about the water cycle, urban stormwater systems and stormwater ponds
- Water-themed reading resources
- Fred the Fish activity supplies
- Schoolyard exploration tools such as clipboards, binoculars, magnifying glasses and a rain gauge
- Soil Shake Up activity supplies
View the Teacher’s Guide
The Stormwater Education Kit Teacher’s Guide includes background information, lesson details, activity instructions, worksheets, SOL connections and additional resources for classroom use.
Request a Stormwater Education Kit
Teachers and educators in Hampton Roads can request to check out a Stormwater Education Kit for classroom use. Complete the form below and a member of the askHRgreen team will follow up with availability, pickup or delivery details, and instructions for returning the kit when your class is finished using it.
