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Extox Net Fa Qs: Water Treatment
Discusses many options of water treatment, the contaminants that the treatments are focused on, how the treatment works, and common treatment systems.
PBS
Pbs News Hour: Water Recycling
PBS and the Online NewsHour have created this multimedia website about water recycling. You can see how this process is different than other waste water treatments by reading interviews, watching a slideshow or investigating a map of...
Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy: Gardens Activity Guide: Water
In this guide helps students understand their garden as a model watershed through the collection and analysis of rainwater filtration data.[4.06]
NASA
Nasa Environmental Control and Life Support Systems Water Filtration Challenge
This educator guide provides students with a challenge to design, build, and test a water filtration system, simulating what is used in a spacecraft. Includes background information, lesson plans, and extension activities.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Introduction
An introduction to an investigation of real-world problems to develop viable solutions to global access to clean water.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: Did You Ever Wonder? How a Portable Water Purifier Saves Lives?
Students explore contaminated drinking water. The resource consists of pictures, quotes, and links to additional resources.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Learn How to Disinfect Contaminated Water
Clean water is not a given everywhere in the world. In this science fair project, students will investigate whether sunlight could be used to disinfect contaminated water. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Straining Out the Dirt
In this activity, students build a water filter with activated carbon, cotton and other materials to remove chocolate powder from water.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: From Lake to Tap
In this activity, students will use a tutorial on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's website to learn about how surface water is treated to make it safe to drink.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Water Filtration
Students will learn about the importance of water and the role it plays in our lives. Students will be exposed to what must occur each day so that they can have clean water.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: You Are What You Drink!
Contamination in drinking water sources or watersheds can negatively affect the organisms that come in contact with it. The affects can be severe - causing illness or, in some cases, even death. It is important for people to understand...
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Ground Water and Drinking Water: Emergency Disinfection of Drinking Water
Learn about the public's drinking water, the oversight agencies that govern it, and what needs to be done in an emergency if it becomes contaminated.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Separations and Purifications: Passage 2
This is a four-question quiz pertaining to the passage "Separations and Purifications -- Passage 2".
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Creating and Separating Acetone
This is a five-question quiz over the informative passage "Creating and Separating Acetone."
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Separations and Purifications Questions
This is a ten-question quiz pertaining to separations and purifications.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Purification of Caffeine
Read the passage "Purification of Caffeine," and complete the five-question quiz related to purification techniques and chemical reactivity.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Sample Water Purification Systems
Learn about the two methods to clean water: distillation and filtration.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Make a Prototype and Test Your Design
Students create a water purification system, and test it out to see how well it works to purify a water sample.
Better Planet Productions
Earth Care: Filter It Down [Pdf]
Students will investigate how different materials filter water and learn about water treatment.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Is It Safe to Drink?
In this activity, the students will conduct an investigation to purify water. Students will engineer a method for cleaning water, discover the most effective way to filter water, and practice conducting a scientific experiment.