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The All Star River Explorers (Web site)
All Star River Explorers http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/rivers/ is designed to introduce students in 3rd-5th grades to the basics of hydrology, and increase their understanding of how rivers are formed and their importance in our lives.

The National Academies Press (Web site)
The National Academies Press (NAP) was created by the National Academies to publish the reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council, all operating under a charter granted by the Congress of the United States.

The Shoreland Stewardship Series (print materials)
Owners of shoreland property often bring with them traditional landscaping ideas centered on the conventional residential yard. Sometimes that means a manicured lawn extending to the water's edge. Unfortunately, that carpet of green can cause serious problems for the adjacent lake.

The Smart Watershed Benchmarking Tool (print materials)
This self-assessment tool helps local communities integrate and align their urban watershed programs to meet their water resource goals. It includes step-by-step guidance, case studies, restoration budget details and more.

The Twelve Orders of Soil Taxonomy (poster)
This is a poster that gives photos of the 12 orders of soil taxonomy along with their respective descriptions.

The Water Cycle: Nature's Recycling System (poster)
This is a two-sided poster, one side featuring a large picture/diagram of the water cycle, and the other side giving explanation about the water cycle, water conservation and activities educators can use to teach about evaporation, percolation, snow density and family water uses.

The Water Update (e-newsletter)
The purpose of this newsletter is to provide information about water quality programs and activities to the 300+ subscribers on our water quality list server.

Thirstin's Drinking Water Games and Activities (CD)
This is a group of activities for K-12 to learn about the water cycle. Tools include a poster, activity book, an interactive Web site and CD ROM.

Tools for Effective Outreach (print materials)
Outreach mechanisms approaches. Extension and empowerement. Steps for choosing effective outreach techniques.

Training Environmental Stewards from Mountains to Ocean: A Water Quality Training Curriculum (CD)
This CD (or print material) provides a coordinated approach for training volunteers about preserving water quality and quantity across a diversity of land uses, particularly those that you would experience when traveling from the ridge of the Cascade Mountains to the shores of Puget Sound and the Pacific Ocean.