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Groundwater Screening
Blue Thumb offers Groundwater Screenings. While bacteria is not included, several parameters, including nitrates, are tested for. Conservation districts typically sponsor these events, with local volunteers actually performing the tests.
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Fish Printing
Provides an easy-to-make item that can be taken home, which includes water quality information on the back of the paper. Several types of rubber are available with a variety of colors.
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Mini-Academy
Designed to help teachers train their students on how to conduct chemical water quality tests. One (or less) day of training prepares students for monitoring and allows them to perform real science and can be tailored to each individual teacher's needs.
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Enviroscape
Create pollution in a watershed and see how storm water runoff carries it downhill and into your local waterways. Learn about what it means to live in a watershed and how both urban and rural areas can and will impact water quality.
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Incredible Journey
Learn all about the water cycle and the many places water travels in its journey. Getting to make a bracelet along the way provides something fun to take home as well as a reminder of what drives the water cycle and why it's important.
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Creek Walks
A creek walk is really a stream ecology experience. Learn what lives in a nearby creek by seining for fish and looking under rocks for bugs. Learn all about what lives in our waters and why it's important.
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Creek Cleanup
Remove litter and junk from the streams in your area while learning about nonpoint source pollution and other factors that impact the water's health. If you know of a stream that needs cleaning, let us know!
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Tabletop Rainfall Simulator
This is a highly effective and visual demonstration of erosion and runoff, perfect for educating about soil health or water quality. It can be requested through the Soil Health Team or Blue Thumb.
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These are our most requested and popular activities. If you would like to request one of these activities, something from Project WET or Project WILD, have another activity in mind, or would like more than one, please complete our program request form!
This program demonstrates soil health principles by teaching easy to use techniques for understanding, assessing, and restoring soil health. Healthy soil contributes to healthy water!
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For more information about the Soil Health Program, please contact:
Meg Greski 580-827-5070 [email protected] Blane Stacy 405-522-4833 [email protected] |