Virtual Learning Resources
Stroud Water Research Center’s education department is here to support students and families through innovative virtual learning resources that help you discover, inquire, and learn — at your own pace, in and around your own homes, to meet your own unique needs.
On this webpage, you can explore fun, freshwater-focused resources for all ages, most of which are free! Curated by our education team, these resources transport the stream-to-the-screen and help you experience your home watershed and nearby nature in your own yard.
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Discover Free Middle School Watershed Education Lessons
The 10-lesson WATERS curriculum is student-centered, place-based, and accessible to those of varying abilities.
Future of Water
The scarcity of drinking water is beginning to capture the world’s attention but a radical source of water might just be found in one of Earth’s driest places.
Dip Your Toes in the Water with the Runoff Simulation
The Runoff Simulation shows how land use and soil determine whether rainfall infiltrates the soil, runs off, or is evaporated and transpired by plants.
Tree-rific Virtual Learning Resources on Streamside Forests
Every tree we plant plays a vital role by providing a natural buffer zone between our land use and the stream it protects.
STEM Career Spotlight: Electrofishing to Determine Stream Health
Have you ever wondered what swims by your feet in your local creek? Learn how we use electrofishing to survey the fish living in the east branch of White Clay
How Do Trout Grow on Trees?
While they more literally grow from eggs into alevins, fingerlings, and adults, trout “grow” on trees because their health and survival depend on streamside forests.
ROCK OUT with New Resources from the Rock Pack Experiment!
The Rock Pack Experiment builds exciting, real-world connections among stream ecology, engineering, and geomorphology.
A Freshwater Rockstar: The Net-Spinning Caddisfly
Net-spinning caddisflies benefit the entire ecosystem as ecosystem engineers, or organisms that maintain, modify, or create habitats.
Explore Your Backyard Watershed and Others Worldwide with the Leaf Pack Network!
How can homemade leaf packs and an online data portal help you study creeping, crawling aquatic macroinvertebrates?
Dive into a Virtual Resource for Teaching and Learning with Aquatic Macroinvertebrates!
You can quite literally experience the creature comforts of staying at home with an innovative, web-based resource to support aquatic macroinvertebrate identification.
Dive into Water Science Careers!
Our Water Science Career Videos engage viewers of all ages in real careers in freshwater-focused science, technology, engineering, and math.
WikiWatershed Toolkit
The WikiWatershed® Toolkit supports citizens, conservation practitioners, municipal decision-makers, researchers, educators, and students to advance knowledge and stewardship of fresh water.
Water Quality Mobile App
The Water Quality mobile app is a water-monitoring learning tool designed for use by educators and their students, citizen scientists, and researchers.
Macroinvertebrates.org
Macroinvertebrates.org is an interdisciplinary effort to create an innovative resource for aquatic insect identification to support citizen science activities.
Rock Pack Experiment
The Rock Pack Experiment combines STEM topics of engineering, ecology, geomorphology, and mathematics through the world of the net-spinning caddisfly.
The Leaf Pack Network
The Leaf Pack Network® is an international network of teachers, students, and citizen monitors investigating their local stream ecosystems.
EnviroDIY.org
EnviroDIY members can showcase their environmental sensors and homegrown approaches to monitoring, data management, or any number of other topics.
Monitor My Watershed
Monitor My Watershed lets you explore macroinvertebrate data from the Leaf Pack Network and sensor datasets from EnviroDIY, an environmental science and monitoring community.
Model My Watershed
Model My Watershed® is a powerful web app that lets users compare how different conservation or development scenarios could modify runoff and water quality.
We especially thank the Connelly Foundation and other donors for making it possible for us to create and distribute these virtual learning resources.
