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Explore Watersheds - Activities for Understanding and Protecting Water Resources

Learn about watersheds and their components, natural and manmade features, impact of human activities, best management practices, and how smaller watersheds form larger ones. Engage in hands-on activities to understand the importance of protecting watersheds.

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Explore Watersheds - Activities for Understanding and Protecting Water Resources

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  1. Watersheds

  2. Activity 1: Paper Wad-ershed

  3. What is a watershed? A watershed is any area of land that drains water to a single water body, such as a stream or lake.

  4. Watershed

  5. List the natural features that may be found in a watershed. • Trees • Plants • Streams • Lakes • Ponds • Animals • Image: UK Agricultural Communications

  6. List the manmade features that may be found in a watershed. • Houses • Buildings • Roads • Parking lots • Schools • Farms • Image: UK Agricultural Communications

  7. How do these manmade features effect a watershed? • Pollution! • Animal waste (wildlife, pets, livestock) • Excess pesticides • Excess fertilizers • Automotive fluids • Litter • Sediment • Image: UK Agricultural Communications

  8. Best Management Practices (BMPs): techniques or management strategies that help prevent water pollution • Image: UK Agricultural Communications

  9. Activity 2: Nested Watersheds

  10. Smaller watersheds join together to create larger watersheds.

  11. Bee Creek Clarks River Tennessee River Ohio River Mississippi River Gulf of Mexico

  12. Nonpoint source pollution cannot be traced back to a single starting point. Images: (Top left, top right, and bottom left) Amanda Gumbert, UK; (top middle) Brad Lee, UK; (bottom right) Katie Richard.

  13. Activity 3: Edible Watersheds

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