Education Resource Links
USGS Water Resources for Students and Teachers and Water Science for Schools
Trout in the Classroom (Trout Unlimited) Brings hands-on activities to life!
USGS National Water Dashboard - includes many layers that help people get a complete picture of what is happening, hydrologically, in their area of interest. These maps are useful during hurricanes and large flooding events, as well as for tracking longer term changes like drought. The National Water Dashboard also allows people to find and view sites with real-time water quality parameters.
USGS Water Data for the Nation - High-quality and discoverable data, using over 135 years of water data from more than one million monitoring locations. WDFN has state pages that allow viewers to see current and historical flows for streamgages within their state (Montana page).
EPA Watershed Academy - a set of webinars, educational modules and publications that provides an introduction to watershed management. Watershed Academy is free of cost and requires no registration.
Groundwater Education
Groundwater is the water that soaks into the ground and fills up the spaces between particles of rock, sand, and soil. This water saturated area is called an aquifer. In most aquifers you just have a lot of soggy rocks, sand and soil. But in some places, depending on the type of rock, the aquifer could include water-filled caves or even flowing streams.
Visit the Groundwater Foundation's kids corner for explanations, animations and videos.
Rivers
Maps of US rivers in black line form for tracing and other maps from Enchanted Learning.
Water Cycle
Wetlands
Ducks Unlimited site for kids - Greenwings.