Project Wet

 There is an environmental programs with leader called Project Wet.  Yes, you could do training, become a facilitator, and get the guide.  Since you home-school,I have my doubts whether that interests you.  However many of their activities from the guides are available and easy enough to implement.  Below are three sample activities to try before you track down Project Wet training in your area.  To be honest, the three lessons below are among Project Wet’s most popular activities.

This water lesson, A Drop in a Bucket or here helps kiddos visualize the amount of fresh water on earth.  Here is a more detailed lesson with a script for A Drop in a Bucket.  Here is the student hand-out.  

Do you have a group? Try The Incredible Journey is the water cycle.  We use pony beads on pipe cleaner bracelets. Each stop, clouds, glaciers, etc has a different color bead.   You follow the journey of a drop of water.  Kids roll dice to move to another station and pick up another bead.  Here and here  are instructions with b/w templates and graphics.  Here is a student copy with a cube template and color graphics.  Here are more graphics and a hand-out kiddos can use to track their journey; the different colored beads also track the water drop’s journey.  This was a success at Camp.

Project Wet has a good introduction to watersheds with Seeing Watersheds; here is a virtual training for the activity. Here is a very similar watershed lesson with lessons, scripts, maps, and answers, adapted from Seeing Watersheds. Here is the lesson and script for the classic, Crumpled Paper Watershed.