The French Broad River: Map and Guide, RiverLink's French Broad River access map (Download 1.3 MB .pdf file)

French Broad River Basin (Download 2 MB .pdf file of NCDENR's illustrated color brochure)

Mississippi River Basin website of the EPA Office of Water

Mississippi Watershed Page of the Water Resources eAtlas (may also be downloaded at higher resolution as: Mississippi Watershed, a 1.2 MB .pdf file)

Description of the French Broad River Basin from North Carolina State Water Supply Plan, January 2001 (Download 760 kB .pdf file)

The French Broad: Past and Currents web page of the Hendersonville Times-News

1895 Map of the French Broad River (192 kB JPEG image loads in separate browser window) excerpt from 756 kB JPEG file of Rand, McNally & Co.'s New 11 x 14 Map of North Carolina, 1895

Cherokee Archaeology by David G. Moore, NC Division of Archives and History

Adopt-A-Watershed.org (Use your local watershed as a living laboratory in which students engage in hands-on activities, making science applicable and relevant to their lives.)

Down the Drain classroom project

North Carolina River Basin I.Q. Quiz

Project WET - Water Education for Teachers, NC Division of Water Resources

Environmental Education Centers in the French Broad River Basin (North Carolina)

Ijams Nature Center, Knoxville, TN

The Cradle of Forestry in America, Brevard, NC

Pisgah Wildlife Education Center, Pisgah Forest, NC

Swannanoa Valley Museum, Black Mountain, NC

Environmental Education Centers in North Carolina

EE Clearinghouse (North Carolina Office of Environmental Education)

Digital Water Education Library (DWEL) -- high quality collections for K-12, informal education, and general public, focusing on science, economics, and policy issues of water (a component of the Digial Library for Earth System Education)

EPA Teaching Center curriculum resources

Water Science for Schools website of the U.S. Geological Survey

High School home page of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Middle School -- Teacher Workroom

Elementary School -- ProTeacher water lesson plans

Academy Curricular Exchange K-5 lesson plans

Tennessee Environmental Education Association (TEEA)

Tennessee Green Schools Resource Guide, Tennessee Pollution Prevention Partnership (TP3)

Know Your Watershed, Ijams Nature Center, Living Clean & Green program

Water Quality Forum Educational Initiatives (East Tennessee)

Threatened and Endangered Species listing for French Broad watershed in North Carolina

North Carolina Atlas of Freshwater Mussels & Endangered Fish

North Carolina Crayfish Atlas

A Guide to Responsible Development (from Milwaukee River Basin Partnership)

Understanding How Rivers Work, by RiverNetwork, River Voices Volume 10, Number 3&4, Fall'99/Winter'00 (Download 1.6 MB .pdf file)

Power of Maps, by RiverNetwork, River Voices Volume 12, Number 1, 2001 (Download 1.6 MB .pdf file)

The GLOBE Program (worldwide, hands-on education and science)

World Water Monitoring Day

Scout Troop Patch Ideas

VWIN (Volunteer Water Information Network) Data Sets
Buncombe County VWIN Data (Download 1.4 MB Excel [.xls] spreadsheet file)
Haywood County VWIN Data (Download 226 kB Excel [.xls] spreadsheet file)
Henderson County VWIN Data (Download 489 kB Excel [.xls] spreadsheet file)
Madison County VWIN Data (Download 192 kB Excel [.xls] spreadsheet file)
Transylvania County VWIN Data (Download 216 kB Excel [.xls] spreadsheet file)