Before your visit to Hudson River Park:
- Review the Our Living Estuary Presentation and additional resources.
- Make your day-of plan including transportation to your field trip location.
- Review your reminder emails for important information.
- If you booked a Community Conversations field trip, please prepare your students using the activity packets below.
*Community Conversations has additional activity packets to prepare students which can be found below.
Pre- and Post-Field Trip Resources
Community Conversations
- Complete the Community Conversations Activity Packets below with your students (see instruction email titled “Required Student Prep-Work”).
- Consider incorporating the lessons under “Preparatory Resources” to create a unit focused on wastewater treatment and environmental justice in NYC.
- Extend learning using data and activities included in “Additional Materials.”
- Community Conversations (6th-12th Grade)
- Preparatory Resources
- Additional Materials
- Map of NYC Sewersheds and CSO Volume
- NYC’s Water Story Map for Students from NYC DEP
- Wastewater Treatment Lesson from NYC DEP
- Environmental Justice Case Study: North River Sewage Treatment Plant
- Hudson River Park Pathogens Research
- Hudson River Park Water Quality Monitoring
- Citizen’s Water Quality Testing Program
- Lesson: Climate and Our Coast (6th-12th Grade)
- Lesson: Build Your Own Water Filter (3rd-8th Grade)