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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Stream Trailer*

See the difference between a healthy riparian area and an unhealthy riparian area, and the amount of erosion that happens with each. Learn how water moves in a channelized stream versus a naturally meandering stream and how that water impacts the land along the water's edge.
*The Stream Trailer is available from April 15-October 15 every year

A demonstration of the Stream Trailer can be found here.

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!

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.

These are our most requested and popular activities. If you would like something from Project WET, have another activity in mind, or would like more than one, please contact us!

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!

For more information about the Soil Health Program, please contact:

Meg Greski
580-827-5070
[email protected]

Blane Stacy
405-522-4833
[email protected]