Rivers: Our National Water Resource
ABOUT
Age Level: 8+
Setting: Small group (2-4 players)
Type: Board game
Topics: Water resources, human health, land use, disasters
Estimated Time: 30 minutes
Try your hand at cleaning our nation’s waterways, winning points for finding ways to use natural vegetation to keep water clean, learning how water is used in different places and industries, and trying to avoid disaster!
The back of the 2021 Earth Science Week poster.
Allison Nussbaum and Ginger Butcher
Materials & Setup
- Collect Materials: One playing piece (a small unique object) for each player, one six-sided die.
- Set-up: Download and print game board. Download and print instructions pdf (double-sided) and cut out tiles, cards and tokens.
Game Play
- On each turn, roll the die, move that number of spaces, and draw an event card to follow its instructions.
- If you land on a Land Use or WILD icon, draw three cards from the corresponding pile and purchase one by allocating clean water tokens as indicated. Landing on a disaster space triggers a disaster tile and die roll.
- Passing START earns five clean water tokens and clears disaster tiles; follow instructions on any special corner spaces encountered.
Landsat: Viewing Water from Space
NASA, USGS, and AmericaView collaborated on the creation of this poster for Earth Science week 2021. The Viewing Water from Space poster features five beautiful natural-color Landsat 8 images of US rivers meandering their way through the country’s varied landscape.
The front of the 2021 Earth Science Week poster.
Allison Nussbaum and Ginger Butcher
Related Resources
- AmericaView — AmericaView is a nationwide, university-based, and state- implemented consortium that advances the widespread use of remote-sensing data and technology through education, outreach, and workforce development for the public and private sectors.
- USGS EROS Earth at Art
- USGS Landsat
- NASA Earth Observatory
