write about what you are thinking and seeing and experiencing:

• print these journal response pages as a booklet

do some creative or playful things:

• create a water-based sensory bin for younger kids
• check out these ideas for water play for older kids
• here are some wonderful ways to explore with watercolors
• quench your thirst with these infused water recipes
• have a “leaf race” — toss two leaves into a creek and watch them as they float to the finish line

read with a buddy or by yourself:

• soak in the glorious illustrations of Water Is Water: A Book About the Water Cycle by Miranda Paul
• gather your older elementary kids and read aloud together All Thirteen:The Incredible Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team by Christina Soontornvat

share what you have learned with someone else:

• teach this to someone using this guide