Free facility tours

Request Form

• Tours are only available Monday-Friday.
• You must provide one adult chaperone for every 10 students.
• Transportation assistance available by submitting a EE funding application when you register for a tour.
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Learning resources

Talking Water Gardens Scavenger Hunt
How many plants and animals can you find and identify? Share your results on social media using the hashtag #talkingwatergardens

Albany’s Watershed Illustration (pdf)

Interactive resources: 

• Learning and Teaching the Environment, EPA
• USGS Water Science School
• USGS Interactive Water Cycle Diagram (three age levels available)

Videos: 

• Upstream (part 1) & Downstream (part 2)
  4-H Filmmaking
• "Whaddya Know about H2O" series of 29 one-minute videos

Service project ideas and lesson plans: 

• "Surf Your Watershed"
• Oregon State University Streamwebs, local hands-on watershed stewardship projects

Links:

• Albany ReUse Directory
• For those unusual recyclable items not covered in the ReUse directory, check out this site.
• Linn Benton Salmon Watch, field trip for 4th-6th grades