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

Education news

Scat, scrambles and stewardship

September 10, 2025

When students step outside the classroom walls and into the wild, something shifts. Learning becomes tactile. For Grade 4 students from Cranbrook's Gordon Terrace Elementary School, it wasn't…Read more

On the importance of a wild childhood — and the shift I've noticed in my 20 years of teaching

September 2, 2025

My eight-year-old daughter doesn’t go anywhere without her books. They’re her safety net — her escape from the world. But this summer, when we camped at Kootenay Lake, her pile of books sat untouched.Read more

What I learned on the river

August 26, 2025

"I never anticipated having as much fun as I did," says Maya, a student from Revelstoke, reflecting on a two-week journey along the Columbia River.Read more

From the creek to the classroom

July 10, 2025

A curious teen crouches beside a creek to collect a water sample in a vial from the creek's cool flow.Read more

Moving kids from climate despair to hope

June 4, 2025

Where does the seed of hope come from? In the face of our global climate crisis, one teacher in a British Columbia classroom is facing climate concerns head on by…Read more

Educator field course applications open

May 5, 2025

In an incredibly dynamic time for the Columbia River watershed, we would like to invite educators to join us for a three-day, two night adventure that immerses you in…Read more

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