Students study salty and fresh waters.  In this harbor estuary lesson students complete a lab activity on salinity and describe what happened. 

Young scholars are introduced to the SWMP system which tracks short-and long-term changes in water. Using this data, they plot and interpret the data on a graph to determine how human activities are lowering the water quality. They also...

Students examine how a coastal area changes after it has been developed. They discover the impact of development on the environment. They illustrate their own non-developed area and change it into a developed area.

Describes the projects that have been undertaken in the Galveston Bay estuary region of Texas to restore and protect shoreline and wetlands habitats.

Home page of the Buzzards Bay Project National Estuary Program. Contains links to mission statement, events/updates, bay & basin info, references to documents related to the organization, links to related sites, legislation, and...

A project-based collaborative unit of study that teaches students about watershed health using real-time geospatial technology. Students engage in outdoor field experiences while using twenty-first century learning skills.

Understand the basic characteristics of circulation in the Chesapeake Bay, by allowing students to change the wind speed and velocity, and the freshwater forcing through a number of subestuaries, and observe the resulting surface height,...

Of course it can, you say: ice is water and ice floats. And you're right. But we're talking about water in the liquid phase Can liquid water float on water? The goal of this project is to investigate what happens to layers of water with...

The Evergreen Project profiles the natural history of rivers and streams. Topics include watersheds, how a stream becomes a river, erosion, water pollution, and the like.