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- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 6th
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Students Identify 2 or more pollutants in a bog, marsh, stream or other wetland area and relate a pollution prevention message through words and art. Full Review »
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- 1st - 5th
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Students can recognize that pollutants affect water quality. They can discuss how a surface pollutant can be removed from water and recognize the importance of keeping water clean. In the junior primary, students investigate how water pollution affects plant life, in middle primary, investigate problems and solutions associated with oil pollution and in upper primary, identify causes of water degradation. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students examine the effects of water pollution by participating in a story. After reading the story, they determine the best way to get rid of the pollution in a river using different objects. In groups, they complete a worksheet outlining their plan and sharing it with the class. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students explore nutrient, bacterial, and toxic surface water pollution. They identify the amount of water they use each day and summarize the kinds of substances that cause water pollution. They predict what will happen in water pollutant scenarios and write a poem or song about the pollutants. Full Review »
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- 8th - 10th
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Students brainstorm sources of water pollution, identify effects of water pollution on human health and possible economic costs to society, work in groups to complete Project WET activity, Poison Pumps, and create storyboards on waterborne epidemic. Full Review »
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- 8th - 10th
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Students discover the ratio of fresh water to salt water on the Earth. Using investigative methods, they trace the source of contagious diseases. They identify the effects on human health of water pollution and economic costs to society. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students 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. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students examine what contaminated water looks like, and how it becomes polluted. They examine a teacher demonstration of water is not polluted but does contain rocks and other things that do need to be cleaned out before drinking it. Next they evaluate different ways to clean water such as screening, sedimentation, filtration, and chemical treatment while working in small groups. Full Review »
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- 5th - 6th
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Students begin the lesson by brainstorming how they think they get the water they use to drink or bath in. In their journals, they write an entry about how to conserve water on a daily basis and share their thoughts on water pollution. They participate in an experiment to end the lesson. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students discuss the availability of clean, plentiful water and the causes of water pollution. In groups, students discuss problem solving methods for keeping water clean. They explore the function of water treatment plants and perform experiments to predict pollutants that can be stopped by filtration. Full Review »
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