Education: information for students and teachers

Last updated: 28 April 2024.

Want to know about rivers, water, or pollution? You've come to the right place! We've been developing a range of educational material for teachers and students since 1998. We do a little bit more each year. We hope you find it useful.

Photo: Learning is the most important thing you ever do. Photo by Jay C. Pugh courtesy of US Navy.

Pollution

• Introduction to water pollution: What are the causes and effects of water pollution? What are the solutions?
• The state of our rivers and seas: handy statistics and graphs
• Pollution photos: 50 free, public-domain photos you can use in your school and college projects.

Rivers

• River photos: 50 free, public-domain photos you can use in your school and college projects.
• River and Category: Rivers are good places to start for Creative Commons licensed pics on Wikimedia Commons.

If you're looking for photos of British rivers, one of the best places we've found is the superb (but slightly oddly named) Flickr pool River Names of Britain: it's a collection of over 33,000 photos of British rivers posted by over 1300 people.

Climate change

• Climate change and rivers: How will global warming affect rivers?
• Cl mate change and global warming photos: 50 free, public-domain photos you can use in your school and college projects.

Practical guides

• Adopting a river: How to get out get dirty, and make a difference
• Using environmental law to stop damaging developments: Advice from Charlie Hopkins on how to challenge environmentally destructive planning permission.
• How to run a local community campaign

Balloon releases

• Balloon releases: pollution factsheet: Text of a leaflet by the Marine Conservation Society about the damaging impacts of balloon race events.