Know Your Watershed online resources

Welcome to Know Your Watershed Online!

Know Your Watershed educators have developed an accessible online alternative to help you cover some of your Science 9 curriculum.

Follow the links below to access the Know Your Watershed Lessons, each of which includes a short video with one of our educators, and a short lesson that you can do to further explore some of the topics in the program that link to Grade 9 Science.

Remember, each community is unique, each watershed is unique, and every single learner is unique as well, so some of the given examples might differ slightly from the reality you see in your own watershed, but these videos and lessons will help you begin to Know Your Watershed.

Lesson 1 – Discovering Watersheds

Lesson 2 – Biogeochemical Nutrient Cycling

Lesson 3 – Climate Change and Our Watersheds

Lesson 4 – Physical Properties of a River

Lesson 5 – Chemical Properties of a River

Lesson 6 – Biological Properties of a River

Lesson 7 – Water Treatment

Lesson 8 – Wastewater Treatment

Lesson 9 – Student Action Projects

Lesson 10 – Predicting Stream flow

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