Welcome to Sask River Basin

Kit Refills

Water Watchdog Kit Refills

Water Watchdog Program Planner

Before Getting Your Feet Wet

Assembling Logbooks

Assembling the Logbooks

Aquatic Invertebrates

Supplementary Activities

Answers to Questions and Quizzes

a) Answers

Program Planner

Step 1: Concept-building

Introduction to Watershed Stewardship

Time required: 15 minutes to 3 hours

Please review the Leader's Evaluation Form and Children's Report Cards to ensure that you collect pertinent information as you work through the Water Watchdog Program.

Focus the participants for the field trip by introducing vocabulary and concepts. You and/or the participants may choose to read these pages out loud, and use the information and activities to generate discussion. Participants should understand the meaning of stewardship, ecological concepts and why they are surveying the monitoring site.

If you are working with older children try some of the water challenges and read all parts of the Information Files.

If you have less time, or are working with younger children, focus on sections in the Information Files that use a large type size or have light green screening behind the paragraphs.

The following activities provide participants and leaders with a baseline upon which to gauge future learning.

From Information Files

Concept	Page	Related Activity
Water cycle and watersheds	1 & 3	Be a Water Molecule in the Sask. River Basin
Connecting to water	2	Water Stories
Solutions and suspensions	4	Chunky Chemical Soup
Connecting to the	8	Collect Information on the Monitoring Site

From Information Files

Page	Time Required
10	20 min..
11	5 min. per child
12	20 min
6	1 hour – 3 hours