Free Weekly At-Home-Learning Lessons from Fox-Wolf

During the Safer at Home order, many parents and guardians are looking for ways to keep students engaged, active, and interested while learning at home.
To help with this, Fox-Wolf staff are working to develop educational tools for easy at-home learning lessons. Each week, for the past three weeks, we have been sharing these lessons with our Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance Facebook followers, and we will continue to post a weekly lesson or learning tool until the end of the 2019-20 school year.

Week 1: Watershed Alphabet

Kids can learn about different watershed terms, species, and functions by viewing the Watershed Alphabet PDF or by the watching the video.

Week 2: Teach Kids about Native Plants

Get outside and learn about native plants! This lesson explains the benefits these plants provide in our watershed, and the chalk activity teaches kids just how tall these plants grow, and how deep their roots grow into the soil.

Week 3: The Pond in a Jar Experiment

This watershed lesson for at-home learning has you creating a pond in a jar! Kids can learn about the interactions between living organisms in a pond ecosystem and will record their observations.
*At the end of your pond in a jar activity, make sure that you aren’t accidentally spreading aquatic invasive species to new lakes, ponds, or rivers! There are some invasive species we can’t see with our bare eyes but might be in the pond water. The plants in your jar might even be invasive plants! Make sure you properly dispose of your pond in a jar by dumping the water down the drain and throwing away all the plants and mud in the trash. You can wash your jar to use again! Thanks for protecting our waters from aquatic invasive species!*