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The Water Cycle
Students explore the water cycle. In this water cycle lesson, students experiment with a variety of activities to discover what happens during the water cycle. Students create their own animated versions of the water cycle...
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Water Pollution
Fifth graders investigate how humans pollute the water supply with a number of different contaminates. While working in small groups they examine screening, sedimentation, filtration, and chemical treatments as methods of water treatment.
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Using GIS to Construct Water Table Maps and Flow Nets
Pupils examine how to use GIS software to analyze patterns of groundwater flow. Seepage lake elevation data from the Sand Hills of Nebraska is used to construct a water table map and flow net using Esri's Arc Map software.
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Is It Safe To Go In? Water Quality of Bathing Areas in the EU
Students complete an experiment on water to study water quality. In this water quality instructional activity, students complete a taste test experiment about chemicals in water. Students then study their local water environments and...
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Water and Ice
Students observe and discuss the change of water to ice and back again. In this water and ice lesson plan, students observe the change in temperature and what happens when water freezes and turns to ice and vice versa.
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Water
Students create a water filter according to given criteria. I this chemistry lesson, students evaluate the importance of water in their lives. They develop a book or brochure on the water treatment process.
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Water Pollution - Group Presentation
Students investigate water pollution at a web site and apply it toward a group presentation.
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Contaminated Drinking Water
Young scholars see if they can tell if our water is safe to drink by looking at it and tasting it. They perform an experiment using salt and vinegar to see when they can tell water has been contaminated.
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Measuring Water Vapor: The Microwave Water Radiometer (MWR)
Students investigate water vapor. They view and analyze photos, conduct Internet research, and analyze the total water vapor/total liquid water data plot.
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Water Cycle Drama
Pupils explore the water cycle. In groups, students choose a card and then pantomime the picture depicted on the card. Other group members guess the name of the cycle being performed. As a class, pupils share the numerous ways each water...
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Water Resources
Students demonstrate how water quality and environmental health issues can be analyzed together, how hydrologic information can be built up, and how decisions can be made using GIS.
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Water Resources and the Role of the Independent Sector
Young scholars identify the need to maintain and protect our natural resources. In this natural resource lesson, students study pictures of the effects of pollution on animals and water. Young scholars brainstorm a list of ways water is...
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Who Will Care for the Water?
Students discover how humans impact natural resources. In this environmental lesson, students identify water resources in the local area and construct a T-chart to compare the positive and negative effects humans have on water resources.
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Around and Around (The Water Cycle)
Students view a video of the water cycle, and make a water cycle baggie. For this water cycle lesson plan, students watch a video, discuss vocabulary, and make a water cycle baggie out of water, salt, ice, and a hot plate.
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Comparing Microscopic Organisms in Fresh and Polluted Water: An Invitation To Inquiry
Young scholars have the opportunity to develop and formulate ideas and explanations through the scientific standard of inquiry. They identify organisms by using an identification key for specific aquatic geographical area.
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Is My Water Safe?
Learners discuss what makes their drinking water safe and unsafe. They locate and visit a local tributary and test the water's pH, hardness, dissolved oxygen, and total alkalinity. They compose a summary paragraph about the tests and...
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Crossing Polluted Waters
High schoolers investigate the different concepts involved in crossing a body of water that is polluted through a simulation that is supposed to be done without a boat. The goal of the lesson is for groups to role play after creating a...
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Water Pressure
Students spend time examining the concept of water pressure. In groups, they research the amount of air pressure that is felt at different levels above sea level. Using a calculator, they calculate the water pressure given different...
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The Water Cycle Bracelet
Students participate in a creative project in order to investigate the water cycle. They create a bracelet with different colored beads that represent the concept and the order of its occurrence. Students are evaluated according to the...
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Water Pollution and Food Chains
Sixth graders study the effect of pollution in our food chains. In this plant biology activity, 6th graders first experiment with pollution by placing a carnation in colored water. Next they use a food chain triangle to see the...
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Water and the Fitness of the Environment
For this environment worksheet, students answer 6 different questions. The questions are really an activity for each one. This requires extra space to complete them on separate worksheets.
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Water Use and Conservation
Students discuss the different types of water found on Earth. They discover why not all water is used for drinking and calculate how much water they use. They create their own water conservation plan.
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Diurnal Temperature Changes and Water Vapor Content
Students examine the greenhouse effect, as they determine how moisture in the air affects the diurnal temperature range. Their investigation help them to explain different climatological regimes of both the Southern Great Plains and the...
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Water Sources in Cape Verde and West Africa
Young explorers study the scarcity and importance of a continuous supply of fresh water in Cape Verde. They research the five main ways that fresh water is obtained in these countries. Each research group prepares a presentation, and...