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Worksheet
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission

Desalination: Turning Salt Water into Fresh Water

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
How does San Francisco supply its citizens with enough water, even during a drought? Learn about reservoirs and why desalination could be a good solution with a reading passage about water conservation. After kids finish the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Desalination: Creating a Solar Still

For Teachers 4th - 6th
To better understand how solar power can aid in creating desalinated drinking water, the class creates a model still. They will build a model of a solar still, make observations, and discuss how the process works. While the idea behind...
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Writing
Curated OER

Water Desalinization

For Students 4th - 8th
In this water desalinization worksheet, students will design and construct their own desalinization plant. Then they will describe how they set up their experiment and if it worked or not.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Water Everywhere: Is There Enough to Drink?

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students examine water supply issues caused by population growth and land use. They read and discuss an article, develop a water usage trivia game, write a news article, illustrate a desalination process, and research aquifer systems.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Seaside Science

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students classify sea life and shells and develop computer-generated tables and graphs. They observe a desalinization demonstration and enter information on their laptops through each step of the scientific experimental process.
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Lesson Plan
Southwest Florida Water Management District

WaterWeb - Conservation and Water Supply

For Teachers 6th - 12th
If 71% of our planet is covered with water, why do we need to bother conserving water? Find out with these activities designed for middle and high school environmental scientists. From reading articles to solving crossword puzzles, to...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Survival Still

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Lead your class to construct a solar still on campus to demonstrate how water can be extracted from the soil. The power of solar energy is emphasized, as is the concept of how capillary water can be recovered and purified by using a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Environment: Water & Air

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The introduction to the lesson mentions a sailor's limited capacity to store drinking water on his ship. Pupils then set up an overnight experiment to remove freshwater from salt water by distillation. There is a math and map activity to...
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Lesson Plan
Education Outside

Our Water Planet

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Fresh water is a precious resource. Most kids don't realize how little of the water on Earth is actually drinkable. This lesson will help to illuminate them on this important topic. They discus the ratio of water to land, where most...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Water Water Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students describe limitations of fresh water resources on ships at sea. They realize the value of fresh water on the ocean and around the world. Students gain a knowledge of the process and economic cost of desalinization.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Sun as the Driving Force of the Water Cycle

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars study the water cycle and how the sun is an important factor.  In this water cycle lesson students investigate how to desalinate water and explore the different densities of fresh versus saltwater.
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Lesson Plan
NASA

The Case of the Wacky Water Cycle

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Join the tree house detectives in learning about the processes of the water cycle, water conservation, water treatment, and water as a limited resource.
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Interactive
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NOAA

Energy from the Oceans

For Students 6th - 12th
Can Earth's oceans produce a steady supply of clean energy? Scholars explore the uses of tidal and thermal energy in the 11th installment of a 13-part series about ocean-based alternative energy sources. Learners examine the current...
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Activity
University of Waikato

Water Issues

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Water may be everywhere but it is not always drinkable. Pupils research water issues, first in a local setting and then with Papua New Guinea and Australia to get a larger world perspective. Teams use the Internet and other resources to...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Survival Still

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explain how to desalinate water using solar energy.  In this solar lesson students complete a lab activity and explain capillary water. 
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rain Machine (Solar Still)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students experiment with a solar still. In this distillation lesson, students find a simple way to use evaporation to make salty water drinkable.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Oceanography

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the importance of oceans in supporting life on earth and identify resources obtained from the ocean.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

It's Too Salty!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine water shortage and the process of changing salt water to fresh water. They examine a world map, define key vocabulary terms, conduct experiments involving seeds and salt water and creating distilled water, and illustrate...
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Worksheet
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission

What is Drought? No Rain, No Water

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
How can climate change affect our water supply? Have kids read a passage about the water cycle and water conservation, which includes six questions that challenge them to use context clues.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Water Quality Issues

For Teachers 9th - 11th
In this unit of lessons, students examine water quality issues. They discover ways they can conserve water and practice making drinkable water from water desalination.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Water Sources in Cape Verde and West Africa

For Teachers 4th - 6th
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...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sustainable Marine Fisheries

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Through a fishing simulation, environmentalists discover consequences of over fishing. Afterward, they discuss how the activity relates to the impact of real-life commercial fishing. They also consider sustainability in the fishing...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Earth's Water: A drop in your cup

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students complete activities where they observe the amount of freshwater in the world as a fraction of the actual amount of water using different mixtures. In this freshwater lesson plan, students brainstorm on how to preserve freshwater. 
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Worksheet
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K12 Reader

Water Water Everywhere

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
The protection of our water supply is the subject of an article used in this cross-curricular reading comprehension worksheet. After studying the passage, readers use information from the text to respond to a series of comprehension...