Videos
Water Chemistry Part 2
Can we judge temperature, pH, and dissolved oxygen levels just based on how water looks? In this video we compare two locations accessible by canoe in the middle Slough: Mermaid Cove and Broadmoor Golf Course!
Supplemental Materials:
+ Water Chemistry Worksheets
Erosion
In this video, Max and Jennifer find ways to PROTECT THE SOIL from moving to a place it DOESN'T BELONG (the Slough). Spoiler: the solution is plants! Watch to find out how!
Supplemental Materials:
+ Erosion Slideshow
Vanport and Flooding in the Watershed
Learn about Vanport, once Oregon’s 2nd-largest city, which was destroyed in a giant flood in 1948. Vanport is part of our watershed!
Learn more:
+ Slideshow about Flooding
The Watershed Model!
Learn about watersheds and how water moves across the land, what POLLUTION is, and what it means for our health and our watershed!
Supplemental Materials:
+ All About Watersheds Presentation
Water Chemistry
This is some DATA COLLECTION! In this video, we show you how to use tools to collect information on Temperature, Turbidity, Dissolved Oxygen, and pH! This helps us figure out what animals can live in our water!
Supplemental Materials:
+ Water Chemistry Worksheets
+ Macroinvertebrate Test
Boo in the Slough: Italian Arum!
What's up with Italian Arum? It's an invasive herb that is REALLY HARD to get rid of! What's a CORM, and why do you have to throw it away in the TRASH?
Native & Invasive Plants at Whitaker Ponds
Education Director Jennifer takes us on a field trip to Whitaker Ponds to learn about why Native Plants are important to the Riparian Zone. Settle in for a half-hour virtual field trip!
Supplemental Materials:
+ Whitaker Ponds + Slough Plant & Animal Guide
Macro-invertebrates of Wilkes Creek
In this video, learn about the weird and wonderful creatures living in the very top of Wilkes Creek in northeast Portland! Use what you’ve learned to play this fun Kahoot game!
Supplemental Materials:
+ Wilkes Creek Animals Worksheet
+ Wilkes Creek Kahoot!
Soil Analysis
Soil scientists: How do they do it? In this lesson, Education Director Jennifer Starkey will go through the steps needed to figure out a SOIL CHARACTERIZATION! Is it Granular? Cohesive? Can you make it into a ball? Can you make it into a pencil? What about its moisture and density? The Thumb Test! You can analyze your own soil and see how to make your own Soil Characterization!
Supplemental Materials:
+ Soil Analysis Worksheet
Porosity & Permeability
Our aquifers depend on POROSITY: the space between particles! We compare the spaces in between Gravel, Sand, and Clay!
And after watching this…
…learn more with our PERMEABILITY video:
Supplemental Materials:
+ Porosity and Permeability Recording Sheet
Whitaker Ponds Wild! Trail Cam Wildlife Videos from Whitaker Ponds Nature Park:
Wildlife at Whitaker Ponds: Trail Cam Feature!
Students at Alliance High School at Meek have put together this amazing video of wildlife they captured on cameras hidden at Whitaker Ponds. Watch raccoons, herons, nutria, coyotes and more!
Whitaker Wildlife: Trail Cam Feature #2!
We have another update from the Whitaker Ponds trail cams, courtesy of the Alliance HS at Meek! This compilation features a dramatic fight between two herons, coyotes crossing the Whitaker beaver dam, and more!
Whitaker Wildlife: Trail Cam Feature #3!
We have another update from the Whitaker Ponds trail cams, courtesy of the Alliance HS at Meek! This compilation features birds galore: flickers, robins, a Steller’s Jay, plus beavers, raccoons, and more!
Whitaker Wildlife: Trail Cam Feature #4!
Our latest installment of Whitaker Ponds Wild features a preening heron, and sneaky nutria, and more nocturnal friends!
Watch more:
+ Whitaker Pond Wild Guest Blog Post
Video Feature: LET’S TALK TURTLES! with Portland Parks Ecologist Laura Guderyahn
In this adult- and family-friendly webinar, learn how to identify our watershed's four turtle species with live turtles, join Laura in the field to see her work as an ecologist, and discuss audience questions about turtles and more in a live Q&A with Ecologist Laura Guderyahn.
Guides & Activities
Video Bingo!
Watch a compilation of early winter trail camera footage from Whitaker Ponds and see if you can get 4 in a row… or even a BLACKOUT!
From Our Partners
Portland Parks & Recreation
Portland Bureau of Environmental Services
Distance Learning Resources for Teachers
