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Welcome to Watershed Explorers

In this exploration game, players are hired by the Delaware & Lehigh National Historical Corridor National Canal Museum (D&L) to kayak down the Lehigh River to recommend locations for promoting tourism in the watershed. They are first presented with a two-minute overview video of the Lehigh River watershed and then they explore nine locations along the river with four virtual avatars to learn about the watershed’s environmental issues and industrial history by exploring a series of 360º high-resolution photospheres at each location. Each photosphere contains interactable objects that include video clips, historical imagery, information signs, and narrative text about the environmental or historical importance of each visited area. Players must explore each media artifact and answer a question about the location before continuing to the next location. After the last location is visited, the player returns to the D&L museum to recommend three locations to receive enhancements to promote tourism in the area.

For teachers and educators, click here for a watershed unit curriculum integration supplement.

Watershed Explorers is available to play in a Web browser, or on a PC or Macintosh computer

For Web browser and PC and Macintosh computers:

The minimum requirements:

2.5 GHz Intel Core i3 processor, 2 GB RAM, at least 2 GB of free hard drive space

Notes:

- This content is not currently supported on mobile devices.

- Depending on your network connection, Watershed Explorers may take a minute or so to load on your computer.

- For best performance, we recommend using Mozilla Firefox web browser

Please, disable any pop-up window blocker

⚠️ ATTENTION Mac users:

- You need to use MOZILLA FIREFOX web browser to run a lag-free experience.

Click here to install the Watershed Explorers on a PC computer

Click here to install the Watershed Explorers on a Macintosh computer

Click here to download the APK file to load on a VR Meta Quest 2 or 3 headset (coming soon) 

Watershed Explorers was developed in partnership with the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor National Canal Museum, Lehigh Gap Nature Center, Nurture Nature Center, and Jacobsburg Environmental Education Center.  This work is supported by Lehigh University Creative Inquiry.

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