Education: information for students and teachers

Last updated: 22 February 2008.

Want to know about rivers, water, or pollution? You've come to the right place! We've been developing a range of educational material for teachers and students since 1998. We do a little bit more each year. We hope you find it useful.

Pollution

Water pollution: an introduction: an overview of the whole subject. Explain that Stuff! website is now hosting this article for us.
Finding out about water pollution (a huge selection of links from which you can explore the subject in much more detail)
Pollution photos: 50 free photos you can use in your school and college projects.
Finding out about air pollution (a large collection of links)
The state of our rivers and seas: handy statistics and graphs

Rivers and water

Finding out about rivers
River photos: 50 free photos you can use in your school and college projects.
Finding out about water
Fishing: everything you ever wanted to know

Practical guides

Adopting a river: How to get out get dirty, and make a difference
Using environmental law to stop damaging developments: How to challenge environmentally destructive planning permission.

Balloon releases

Balloon releases: pollution factsheet: Text of a leaflet by the Marine Conservation Society about the damaging impacts of balloon race events.
Up, up, and away?: Another leaflet about balloon releases by the Marine Conservation Society, RSPCA, Tidy Britain Group, and the National Farmers Union.

Useful categories on the DMOZ ODP web directory

Miscellaneous links

Our general page of links includes media, campaigning, and legal resources.

Hands-on education projects

If you are a student or teacher in the UK or Ireland, check out these two great hands-on educational projects. Apart from providing general information about rivers and streams, they offer pupils and students the opportunity to survey their local waterways and then contribute their results to a national database:

UK: Streamwatch