![An illustration of water on a hydrophobic surface. The water forms perfect spheres.](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/splashy_hero_large/public/MatsFabric_CGlotus_Apr09.jpg?h=ddb1ad0c&itok=LlBfqoQf)
Water
Water Quality and Pollution
![Two learners measure out water into a beaker](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/2022-02/ExSci_Chem_20180530_2046.jpg?h=71f00b63&itok=sx-v509j)
What’s in the Water
![Chemistry oil spill activity materials with dye absorbent cups and tongs](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/2021-04/Chemistry%20oil%20spill%20activity%20materials%20with%20dye%20absorbant%20cups%20and%20tongs.jpeg?h=a1e1a043&itok=KI3z6PvR)
Cleaning Oil Spills with Chemistry
![Oil spill video activity two comparison cups of oil, water, and sand](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/images/catalog/Oil%20spill%20screenshot5.png?h=b0cfd8ab&itok=rNkVSAGX)
Oil Spill Clean Up Simulation
![Water being poured into a Glass - iStock photo](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/images/catalog/8419/istock_glass_of_water.jpg?h=3deb336f&itok=_qjQOkFW)
Cleaning Our Water with Nanotechnology
![model of a blue fish with a metallic ring around its waist](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large/public/images/catalog/10787/big_fish_little_fish_3.jpg?itok=CwJ_Mz5-)
Big Fish, Little Fish
Properties and Forces - Including Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Properties
![Facilitator showing learners the lotus leaf effect](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large/public/catalog/programs/Lotus_effect_EExpo2008.jpg?itok=6w3QNWri)
Lotus Leaf Effect
![A lotus leaves in a small, man-made concrete pond.](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/images/catalog/9072/lotus_leaf_rep_image.png?h=102304da&itok=MqxUhi7C)
Zoom into a Lotus Leaf video
![hand spooning white powder material into cup in Exploring Materials - Hydrogel NanoDays activity](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/images/catalog/8882/hydrogel.jpg?h=0fa79da3&itok=XqhK5kcO)
Exploring Materials - Hydrogel
![Group of two learners and two facilitators observe as one learner carefully applies drops of water onto colored sand](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/2022-02/20120216GH_0473.jpg?h=4362216e&itok=U6-KYL9E)
Exploring Products - Nano Sand
![Exploring Products - Nano Fabrics acitivty components including signs, guides, and mini pants coated with nano materials](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/images/catalog/nano_fabric_kit_materials_0.jpg?h=f2fcf546&itok=ma0DEyZj)
Exploring Products - Nano Fabrics
Sand, Plants and Pants
![Learner experimenting with magic sand](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large/public/NanoDays2009_263.jpg?itok=m940uHEo)
Magic Sand / Nanosurfaces
![young learners placing mini teacup in water to see what happens](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/2022-01/20151009_1294.jpg?h=265e640d&itok=ioZOtzL2)
Exploring Forces - Gravity
![Person looking closely at a cup filled with dirty water](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large/public/images/catalog/12005/screen_shot_2013-09-18_at_1.07.24_pm.png?itok=-OxbhvBp)
What’s Nano About Water?
![What is nano about museum labels thumbnails of signs featuring signs of hot-chocolate, hamburger, glass of water, a window, and a toilet](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large/public/2021-04/What%20is%20nano%20about%20museum%20labels%20thumbnails%20of%20signs%20part%201.jpg?itok=VvmqeYZI)
Nano Museum Labels (Graphic Signs)
![Children looking at Gecko with magnifying glass](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/images/catalog/8438/nise_net_press_photo_0019.jpg?h=22b7f206&itok=-zEDpgtI)
Biomimicry
Earth Science, Oceans, and Climate
![Caregiver and two children using the paper mountains activity](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/2021-06/ExiSci_Space_20180219_1106.jpg?h=2f5fb273&itok=gEMn32ZZ)
Exploring Earth: Paper Mountains
![Photo of person pouring water on soil and sand to demonstrate erosion](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/land_activity.jpg?h=dd99b896&itok=we6abGF7)
Exploring Earth: Land Cover
![Facilitator and young learner squeeze colored water into a dish](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/images/catalog/exsci_space_20191008_1133.jpg?h=af3b1fc5&itok=_iEP1HCn)
Exploring Science Practices: Early Explorations
![A group of learners observing a cloud that was made in a plastic bottle](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/images/catalog/ExSci_Space_Promo_20160717_1416-XL.jpg?h=69f2b9d0&itok=CfnH16LN)
Exploring Earth: Investigating Clouds
![Family traces water line on clear piece of plastic](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/2022-02/ExSci_Space_20180929_1598.jpg?h=f25c14f9&itok=iupUTYMP)
Exploring Earth: Rising Sea
![Cumulonimbus cloud over Africa](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/2022-01/4542423196_e63fb84b6f_o-1900x1200.jpg?h=42d52dad&itok=yn4E3vvI)
Climate Change
![Half of the blue marble for Earth Day hero](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/2021-01/earth-day-hero.jpg?h=46c5a8bf&itok=sfKmveh3)
Earth Day
Ice and Snow
![two learners and a facilitator examine three ice orbs](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/images/catalog/ExSci_Space_Promo_20160717_1136-XL.jpg?h=69f2b9d0&itok=dAweqpib)
Exploring the Universe: Ice Orbs
![A person using thin slice of graphite to cut ice.](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/images/catalog/20140907GH1_328.jpg?h=a74d5586&itok=XYe13_wT)
Exploring Properties - Heat Transfer
![Children engaging with snowflake program](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/catalog/programs/SNOWFLAKE_viz_photo.jpg?h=cb4399e4&itok=RQUnAplj)
Snowflakes: Nano at its Coolest
![Ready Set Self Assemble children holding hands](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/2024-02/ready_set_self_assemble_acitivity_with_children_holding_hands_readysetsa_photo_2of3_dec09.jpg?h=64708dde&itok=yjmKOAg_)
Exploring Fabrication - Self-Assembly
![Ready Set Self Assemble children holding hands](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/2024-02/ready_set_self_assemble_acitivity_with_children_holding_hands_readysetsa_photo_1of3_dec09.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=R9C-b9qz)
Ready, Set, Self-Assemble
![Nano ice cream activity Mr. O video schreenshot showing presenter wearing safety goggles and gloves](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/2022-07/nano_ice_cream_activity_mr._o_video_schreenshot_showing_presenter_wearing_safety_goggles_and_gloves.png?h=b474a7cd&itok=bNui-5jK)
Nano Ice Cream
![A person using thin slice of graphite to cut ice.](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large_cropped/public/images/catalog/20140907GH1_328.jpg?h=a74d5586&itok=XYe13_wT)
Exploring Properties - Heat Transfer
Annual Events
- Groundwater Awareness Week (second full week in March)
- World Water Day (March 22)
- World Health Day (April 7)
- Earth Day (April 22)
- NISE Network compilation of resources and activities: www.nisenet.org/earthday
www.earthday.org - National Environmental Education week www.eeweek.org
Chemists Celebrate Earth Week (CCEW)
- NISE Network compilation of resources and activities: www.nisenet.org/earthday
- World Oceans Day (June 8)
- worldoceansday.org
- UNESCO World Oceans Day
- NOAA Ocean and Climate Literacy Resources https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/literacy.html
- NOAA Ocean Literacy Guide
- NOAA Handbook for Increasing Ocean Literacy
- National Pollution Prevention Week (P2 Week) (third week in September)
- International Coastal Cleanup Day (third Saturday in September) World Cleanup Day (mid-September)
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Earth Science Week (second full week in October)
- Explore Science: Earth and Space toolkits
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Cimate Change resources: nisenet.org/climatechange
- Imagine a Day Without Water (mid-October)
More Resources
- Project Wet https://www.projectwet.org
- NOAA Ocean and Climate Literacy Resources https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/literacy.html
- NOAA Ocean Literacy Guide
- NOAA Handbook for Increasing Ocean Literacy
- NASA GLOBE Observer
- HowtoSmile.org ocean activities https://www.howtosmile.org/topics/ocean-literacy
- HowtoSmile.org water activities https://www.howtosmile.org/resource-search/water
![Working with STEM Experts Guide cover including an image of expert puring a liquid and using a strainer with a girl and her family at a museum public event](/sites/default/files/styles/copy_50/public/2021-10/Working%20with%20STEM%20Experts%20Guide%20cover%20including%20an%20image%20of%20expert%20%20puring%20a%20liquid%20and%20using%20a%20strainer%20with%20a%20girl%20and%20her%20family%20at%20a%20museum%20public%20event%20CREDIT%20Marbles%20Kids%20Museum%20CROPPED.jpg?itok=O819TbQo)
Finding STEM Experts
- See the "Environmental Sciences" section of Working with STEM Experts: A Guide for Educators in Museums and Other Informal Learning Settings
Water Scientific Images
![](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large/public/images/catalog/20100815GH_0005.jpg?itok=OK2yo7uq)
Scientific Image - Water Droplets on Nanotex Fabric
Scientific Image - Water Droplet on Hydrophobic Sand
Scientific Image - Water Droplets on Hydrophobic Sand
![](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large/public/images/catalog/7132011_1000x.jpg?itok=H_gUHjF2)
Scientific Image - SEM Image of Lotus Leaf
![](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large/public/images/catalog/7132011_500x.jpg?itok=DS0oEy7o)
Scientific Image - SEM Image of Lotus Leaf
![](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large/public/images/catalog/12625/hydrogel_scaffold_nise.jpg?itok=Yg9jN3GX)
Scientific Image - Hydrogel Scaffold
![](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large/public/images/catalog/12605/nastrurtium_droplet_nise.jpg?itok=bqlpFm6k)
Scientific Image - Water Droplet on a Nasturtium Leaf
![](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large/public/images/catalog/12566/nasturtium_nise-1.jpg?itok=QjT04NAb)
Scientific Image - Nasturtium Leaf
![](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large/public/images/catalog/12602/nasturtium_at_10000x_nise.jpg?itok=Sfmv6qDx)
Scientific Image - Nasturtium Leaf
![](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large/public/images/catalog/12601/nasturtium_at_8000x_nise.jpg?itok=NGul6Fp3)
Scientific Image - Nasturtium Leaf
![](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large/public/images/catalog/12600/nasturtium_at_2500x.jpg?itok=M5a2K4ez)
Scientific Image - Nasturtium Leaf
![](https://nisenet.org/sites/default/files/styles/curated_list_large/public/images/catalog/ice_black.jpg?itok=klIhxZMS)
Scientific Image - Ice models