Sea Level Change and Coastal Hazards in Washington
Many factors contribute to Sea Level Rise. Learn more here!
Activity Type: Website
The Pacific Northwest Fish Wars: What Kinds of Actions Can Lead to Justice?
This online lesson provides perspectives from Native American community members and their supporters, images, news footage, an interactive timeline, and other sources about an important campaign to secure the treaty rights and sovereignty of Native Nations of the Pacific Northwest. Explore the many actions Native Nations took to address injustices.
BRIDGE Ocean Education
The Bridge Ocean Science Education Resource Center is an ever-growing collection of the best marine education materials available online. The Bridge provides educators with a convenient source of accurate and useful information on global, national, and regional marine science topics, and gives research scientists a contact point for broader impacts […]
Hypoxia
Low or depleted oxygen in a water body often leads to ‘dead zones ‘— regions where life cannot be sustained. Visit this webpage to learn more about hypoxia!
What is Eutrophication?
Harmful algal blooms, dead zones, and fish kills are the results of a process called eutrophication—which begins with the increased load of nutrients to estuaries and coastal waters. Learn more about eutrophication by visiting this webpage!
Dungeness Crab Case Study
Dungeness crab is a valuable species throughout the national marine sanctuaries of the West Coast from Washington state to throughout California. This communication toolkit is designed for educators and communicators to use to teach others about the impact of ocean acidification on Dungeness crab. The toolkit includes: fact sheet; infographic; […]
PLT’s Sound Map
Nature provides us with many unforgettable sounds. Breezes whistling through the leaves, birds singing early in the morning, and streams gurgling over rocks are just some of the sounds children recognize. In this activity, students use their sense of sound to created a sound map.
Virtual Benthic Macroinvertebrate Lesson
Check out our materials for a virtual benthic macroinvertebrate lesson! Students identified bugs from this folder using this interactive key (printable version here) and recorded their findings with this interactive worksheet. The lesson included a pollution tolerance index that could be printed or used virtually with Google Slides.
Restoring the Nisqually StoryMap
This Story Map highlights 3 of the major salmon habitat restoration efforts in the Nisqually – the Nisqually estuary, Ohop Creek (one of our field visit sites) and the Nisqually Community Forest.
Project Wet Home Lesson Plans
Project WET has provided four different lessons related to water than can be done at home. Seeing Watersheds A Drop in the Bucket H2Olympics A Plume Problem
Virtual Water Quality Monitoring Resources
Water Quality Monitoring is going virtual! Click here to access the new Water Quality Monitoring Portal! Want to learn more about the portal and how to get the most out of it? Watch our video here! Interactive Journals/Data Sheets To supplement the portal, you can add this Google Slide Interactive […]
How’s My Waterway? Site
How’s My Waterway was designed to provide the general public with information about the condition of their local waters based on data that states, federal, tribal, local agencies and others have provided to EPA. Water quality information is displayed on 3 scales in How’s My Waterway; community, state and national. More recent or more detailed water information may exist […]
Discover Water Web Portal
Discover Water and The Role of Water in Our Lives on Project WET’s new web portal here.
Starflower Habitat Activities and Resources
Washington Native Plant Society’s Starflower Habitat Education Activities and Resources is amazing! “…includes hands-on activities for teachers and students, native plant identification cards useful for all, weed identification cards especially handy for individuals engaged in restoring habitat, and informational posters to alert others to the joys of native plants, as well as […]
Tree Benefit Calculator
The Tree Benefit Calculator allows anyone to make a simple estimation of the benefits individual trees provide, including carbon fixation, stormwater infiltration, air quality and more!
Refuge Bird List
Billy Frank Jr Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge has a checklist for all the birds we might see at the Refuge, as well as times of the year we’re most likely to see them. A great tool before a field trip and for students to use when they visit again!
Waste Free Lunch Activities
The EPA has several worksheets about waste-free lunches. Did you know that every school lunch creates an average of 67 pounds of trash per school year? That means just one average-size middle school creates over 40,000 pounds of lunch waste a year! By reducing the number of items in your lunch […]
Cornell Lab of Ornithology Bird Guide
This site has videos, links, and sounds, for all of the bird species in North America! Click below for direct links to some of the most common bird species found at the Refuge. Common Yellow Throat Red Winged Blackbird American Robin Swainson’s Thrush Canada Goose American Crow Bald Eagle Wood […]