Spring Water

Awareness Program

The RVCA is pleased to offer resources to teachers interested in promoting spring water awareness.

As the warmer spring weather approaches, snow and ice begin to melt and waterways begin to fill up with cold, fast moving water. Children are often interested in exploring rushing streams and thawing ponds during the warm days of spring. However, these areas can be unsafe and it is important to teach students the dangers of these areas.

 

Resources include:

  • Background information about spring flooding
  • “Safety Says” video with teacher notes
  • Activity ideas, resources, and sheets for use by classroom teachers
  • General curriculum information
  • Announcement information for use during the spring season
  • Information for students to take home during flood season
  • Posters
  • Dam safety resource materials from Ontario Power Generation
Rapids and high water rush past a shoreline

Please feel free to copy and distribute any of the information in this package. To order a print version of this package or if you have any questions about the information, please contact Rebecca Whitman, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. at 613-273-3255 or Andrea Wood This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. at 613-489-3592.

Thanks to Quinte Conservation and Loyalist College for the use of their “Safety Says" video