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Modeling Estuaries

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create a model estuary. In this modeling estuaries lesson plan, students identify characteristics and mix water of varying densities. Students form a hypothesis, conduct an experiment, and analyze the results.
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Droplets and Downpours

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore how storm water flows through different habitats by sketching the slope of their yard, compare runoff for erosion, and create a sand castle. In this storm water lesson plan, students measure where their yard started and...
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Marine & Aquatic Habitats -- Journey of a Drop of Water Through a Watershed

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students discuss pollution and the steps in the hydrologic cycle. They follow a drop of water through a watershed simulation. They discover the components of a water cleaning system as well.
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How Much Azatrine?

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Young scholars understand the connections among people, places, and environments in the local school and community, Kansas and its surrounding states, the U.S. and its region, and the world.
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The Atrazine Dilemma

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars understand how farming practices and the topography of a region can effect the health and safety of all living things. Students play a game which helps them understand how the chemical Azatrine has spread in the watershed.
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Marine Debris

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students will perform experiments to examine if debris will float, or blow in the wind. They discuss the effects of these characteristics on marine debris.
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Storm Drain Dumping

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students conduct an experiment to show how water gets contaminated through neighborhood runoffs.
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Wetlands in a Pan

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the wetlands to discover its benefits in removing pollutants in the water.  In this wetlands activity, 5th graders discuss how stormwater wetlands are created to purify water. Students test the water.
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The Urban Explosion

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate the uncontrolled development of the world's major cities. They define key vocabulary terms, view and discuss video excerpts, and complete a project that involves drawing a "perfect city," developing a plan to...
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Water Trash

For Teachers K - 4th
Learners explain the ways plastic waste can affect the marine environment. They are able to describe things they can do to can down on plastic waste entering the marine environment.
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TE Activity: Oil Spill Cleanup

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students experiment by creating an oil spill and trying a number of clean up methods. They determine which methods are the least costly and most effective. They role play as an environmental engineer and as an oil company owner who must...
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Acid Rain: An Air Pollutant

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders participate in an experiment in which they examine the effects of acid rain on buildings. They discover how huge a problem acid rain is not only to structures but to the environment. They gather pictures of acid rain to...
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Effects of organic material and nutrient pollution

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars create a definition of eutrophication.  In this organic material lesson students work together to create a storyline.
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Air Quality Presentation for Youth

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students read two books about wind and dust and then participate in a demonstration in which they plant seeds and compare dry, dusty soils to moist soils. They identify the rationale and methods for keeping airborne dust down.
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G is for Groundwater

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this groundwater worksheet, students read the sentences 'Groundwater is beneath the soil,' and 'G is for Groundwater.' Students may color the picture of the groundwater image.
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People Cause Pollution

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students investigate the effects of industry on natural features. They discuss the industrial revolution, and create a drawing of a river with one half illustrating pre-industrial revolution time, and the other half representing the...
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Environmental Science/Water Pollution

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars study natural habitats, aquatic life, renewable and non-renewable resources. They discuss conservation efforts for sea otters and desert toad in this units.
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Dirty Mud

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine geological information to study benthic marine habitats. In this watershed project, students examine wetland habitats and land uses in a watershed. They will use geological information to discuss the impact of pollution...
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Watershed Lesson Plan

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students are introduced to the concepts of a watershed, stream flow and water quality. This five-day plan is an excellent way to introduce students to the concepts involved. They create their own watershed using a paper bag, water and...
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Energy Resources

For Students 7th - 8th
In this energy resources worksheet, students complete 12 questions in the format of puzzles, teasers, and twisters. Examples include a modified cryptoquip and pictogram.
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What affects Frog metamorphosis?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Shared Resource In this lab, students explore pollutants which affect frog metamorphosis using household pollutants (vinegar, oil, and bleach) and sponge capsules.
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Microbes Know How to Work!

For Teachers 7th - 10th Standards
Scholars harness the power of microbes with an engaging activity that uses yeast to break down sugar in water. Multiple setups of the same experiment lets learners determine which temperature results in the fastest rate of sugar...
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These Lakes are Great

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars examine the Great Lakes Basin and water conservation. In this Great Lakes and water lesson plan, students study the location of the lakes before reading the book, The River Ran Wild. They discuss the associated vocabulary...
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Introduction to Dissolved Oxygen and Demonstration of a Simple Test Procedure

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars explain the importance of dissolved oxygen in water ecosystems. They describe the aquatic oxygen cycle and the effect of water pollution on oxygen. They make observations, collect data and draw a conclusion.

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