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What Goes On Down Under?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the sources for recharge and discharge of groundwater. They research the connection between surface water and groundwater. Students construct a model of an aquifer and explore recharge and discharge of the aquifer.
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More About Water Below the Ground

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners define groundwater. They identify groundwater's relationship to springs, artesian wells, ordinary wells and sinkholes. They describe the process by which sinkholes are formed. they define saltwater contamination and explain its...
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Water Resources

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners explore the differences between surface water and ground water. They collect data using maps and graphs and investigate a Texas river basin and a nearby aquifer. They complete a written report of their findings regarding the...
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Fruitvale Extension

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students determine sources and extent of ground water contaminate, apply mathematics to model in real world simulation, and use technology to present results.
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The High Plains: Land of Extremes

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students complete activities surrounding the study of groundwater movement, energy resources, wind energy, and riparian areas. They debate/role-play the viewpoints of different interest groups in considering whether the black-footed...
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Where Do We Get Our Drinking Water?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers compare land to water ratio on our planet, list sources of drinking water, list steps in cleaning water in treatment plant, describe natural filtering process, and explain danger of not testing drinking water from...
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Landfills and the Potential for Groundwater Contamination

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars examine how a sanitary landfill is constructed, how it functions, and how waste and leachate affects the areas around the landfill. After a discussion about landfills and leachates, students construct a Sanitary Landfill...
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Water Quality

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate the water cycle and evaporation. They study the porosity and permeability of groundwater, and the capillary action in soil in this unit.
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Do You Drink It?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the aquifer. They create a model of an aquifer and explain how a well works. Students explore the relationship between a well and the water table. They explore the various ways that groundwater becomes contaminated.
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Chapter 14 Vocabulary, Earth Science

For Students 9th - 10th
For this science vocabulary worksheet, learners locate 25 earth science words in a word search. Each of the words is related to the study of ground water.
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Leach Out and Touch Someone

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Pupils discuss how groundwater becomes polluted. In groups, they design and create models of groundwater pollution sources. They demonstrate to the class how the water may become contaminated from local and nonlocal pollution sources.
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Porosity And Permeability

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students participate in an exercise/experiment designed to show how environmental pollution can affect the quality of drinking water.
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The Water Cycle

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students list the nine places on earth where water is found. They define the terms cycle and water cycle. Students explain how energy from the sun powers the movement of water molecules through the water cycle. They name and describe...
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WATER FROM HERE TO YONDER

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify local watersheds and drainage areas by using maps and other resources. They are given copies of the water cycle. Students discuss the movement of water in the environment. They observe, record and transfer information...
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Where Does Your Water Come From?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students engage in a instructional activity to determine the source of water that is used. They conduct research using a variety of resources. The instructional activity includes information for the teacher to share with the class....
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PA Watersheds, Many Ways to the Sea

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the water cycle and the factors that interact with watersheds.  In this watersheds lesson students describe the purification process, trace the flow of infiltrate water through aquifers, and research the Internet to find...
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Eek, It leaks!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars construct model landfill liners out of two-inch strips of garbage bags within resource constraints. The challenge is to construct a bag that will hold one cup of water without leaking. This represents similar challenges...
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What is Happening to Our Water?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners compare and contrast Wisconsin's water resources to that of Puerto Rico. They research books about islands, particularly the Puerto Rican islands. Student view illustrations of island ecology. They discuss the illustrations and...
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Water, Water Everywhere

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students recognize that all of the water on earth cannot be used for drinking and that the percentage of ground and surface water is a small percentage.  In this water lesson students identify ways to conserve water. 
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Our Keystone FFA Spring

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify where their water sources and explore a watershed on a map.  In this watershed lesson students walk a wetland, and identify sources of pollution.
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Water Filtration

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore, analyze, study and demonstrate the procedures that municipal water plants may use to purify water for drinking. They cover the clean water processes of aeration, coagulation, sedimentation, filtration and disinfection.
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Contaminated Drinking Water

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Young scholars discover whether their senses can detect unsafe drinking water. In the water activity lesson, students follow procedures to determine whether their bodies can detect contaminated water.
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Exploring Our Watershed System

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study watersheds and examine how they are composed.  In this watershed system lesson students explain how water enters a watershed and the concept of stream order. 
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Earth Water Distribution and Water Consumption

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore the need for conserving fresh water and understand that it is a limited supply.  In this water consumption lesson students participate in an activity and answer questions. 

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