Water

Make a Craft: Get some tiny bottles at the dollar store and create an ocean in a bottle.

Try an Experiment: All you need are water, food colouring, and a big dish to see for yourself how ocean currents work!

Write a Story: Imagine you're a sea creature -- whichever creature is you favourite! -- and you just encountered your first human being. The human can be a swimmer, someone in a boat, an explorer, or even someone who's gotten lost in your ocean. Will you help them, run away, chase them, or just watch to see what they do? Write about what happens because of your choice.

Go Outside: Visit the river, or another body of water (take an adult with you!). Pay attention. What do you see, hear, and smell? What does the movement of the water tell you about what's underneath? What kinds of plants grow nearby? If you're able to get close, what can you see under the water? If you put a hand or foot in, can you feel the movement of the water?

See the World: Check out the National Geographic Kids Ocean Portal for videos, fun facts, games, and more!

Save the Planet: While water covers most of planet Earth, almost all of it is salt water. There's much less fresh water -- the kind we can drink and cook with -- so we need to make it stretch as far as we can so everyone has enough. Think of one way you can make sure you're using only as much water as you need.

Books to Borrow:

Otis & Will Discover the Deep: the Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere by Barb Rosenstock, ill by Katherine Roy

Beyond the Bright Sea by Lauren Wolk

Dark Life and Rip Tide by Kat Falls (download the audiobooks for Dark Life and Rip Tide on OverDrive)