Great Big Story
Gitanjali Rao, Young Innovator Tackling Water Safety
Meet Gitanjali Rao, a 12-year-old scientist who developed Tethys, a groundbreaking device for detecting lead in water.
Great Big Story
Cullen Jones, from near-drowning to Olympic glory
Discover Cullen Jones's journey from a life-threatening experience to promoting water safety.
Great Big Story
The 12-Year-Old Scientist Taking On Flint’s Water Crisis
Join Gitanjali Rao, a young and brilliant scientist, as she shares her groundbreaking invention, Tethis—a device designed to rapidly detect lead in water. Motivated by the Flint water crisis, Gitanjali's passion for solving real-world...
Great Big Story
Gitanjali Rao: Young Innovator Tackling Water Safety
Meet Gitanjali Rao, a 12-year-old scientist who developed Tethys, a groundbreaking device for detecting lead in water.
Curated Video
Swimming Safety
Miss Palomine encourages your student to enroll in a swimming class. She talks about basic water safety knowledge that your student should know. She provides basic demonstrations of floating and treading water, as well as freestyle,...
Weatherthings
Rip Current Safety: Introduction
This is the science of what, where, and how of rip currents. Most lifeguard rescues on ocean beaches in the United States are for rip currents. See how to avoid rip currents and learn safety from these killer currents on beaches. They...
Curated Video
How Life Jackets Work
How does a small life vest keep a large human from drowning? Discover how life vest manufacturing uses physics to keep us safe in water.
American Chemical Society
Is Fluoride in Drinking Water Safe?
Protect your teeth with fluoridated drinking water. A short YouTube video from the ACS Reactions playlist explains how fluoride is a safe substance to add to drinking water. It highlights some common myths and debunks them.
TED-Ed
When Is Water Safe to Drink?
How safe is the drinking water you have access to? Colors, smells, and other factors may lead you to finding out if your water is safe. Watch a video that explains the ways water becomes filtered and ways to know when water is contaminated.
Fuse School
Water Treatment - Water Works
With so much water everywhere, how is it that people around the world don't have clean water for drinking and bathing? Part three in a seven-part series describing Earth's water resources introduces the class to the process of water...
Crash Course Kids
A Fresh Future
If less than 1% of Earth's freshwater is available for use, and people are constantly using it up, what's being done to save it? This is the focus of a video that discusses the human impact on the hydrosphere.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Liquid Assets: How Is a Watershed Polluted?
The urban and rural activities of our complex social system aimed toward comfort and progress also have harmful side effects. This segment from a WPSU documentary Liquid Assets describes how the water resources of one city are suffering...
NOAA
Noaa: The Ocean Today: Break the Grip of the Rip
Find out the dangers of rip currents, how to spot them, and how to stay safe in the presence of them. [2:14]