US Geological Survey
Usgs: Water Science for Schools Water Science Storytime!
This U.S. Geological Survey website features a fictious town, Dryville, and uses it to illustrate every aspect of water management that you might encounter. Click Home to access the site in Spanish.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: The Water Sourcebooks [Pdf]
This is online resource is for teachers of all grades. The Water Sourcebook contains activities grouped according to grade level. Detailed lesson plans are provided along with glossary and fact sheets.
Other
Virtual Field Trip: Water/aquifers
This virtual field trip for middle school students looks at aquifers and their place in the hydrologic cycle. Students learn why and how it is important to protect the source of your drinking water and some unique details about the...
Other
University of Wisconsin: The Physical Environment: Textbook: Water Table
Illustrated glossary entry for water table, from an online textbook used in an introductory-level college geology course.
NBC
Nbc Learn: Chemistry of Water
This video/lesson series explains how the structure and behavior of H2O in liquid form gives water its properties, and make it a chemical essential for life. Also in this collection: a Victorian-era depiction of the water molecule; news...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: How Does Water Get Polluted?
Given a water table model, students will observe and record as pollution infiltrates the ground and surface water.
Other
Managing Wholes: Water Cycle Basics
A great slideshow that compares an effective water cycle with an ineffective one. Content can be read in five different languages.
US Geological Survey
USGS: Urbanization and Water Quality
This website focuses on water quality issues in relation to urbanization. There are helpful links to brief articles on topics like storm runoff, wastewater, and the underground water table. Click "Water Science School HOME" to access the...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Solubility Table
A guided tutorial which introduces a solubility table, and demonstrates how to determine if an ionic compound will dissociate in water. [5:48]
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: List of Drinking Water Contaminants
Table outlines the EPA's standards for safe drinking water, defining levels of contaminants and listing possible sources of these contaminants.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Water Availability
This lesson helps students discover the relationship between precipitation, evaporation, and surface runoff data. Using FieldScope, an online GIS created at the National Geographic Society, students will explore data layers, create a map...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: What Makes Water Special?
Activity 2 investigates Why is water different from other liquids? This activity will investigate properties of different liquids. Students will explore what makes honey gooey and thicker than water. And why some liquids evaporate faster...
Web Elements
Web Elements Periodic Table: Manganese
This article discusses the reaction of manganese with things such as: water, air, acids, bases, etc.
Curated OER
The Water Table
This site briefly describes the groundwater system and the relationship of the system with the water table. A diagram is provided also.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Gis Exploration Using the High Plains Aquifer Databases
Students work with databases and GIS to develop saturated thickness maps. Each database consists of observations made by drillers where they have encountered the High Plains aquifer base and the annual water-level measurements taken in...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Relative Humidity Measurement
Using the wet bulb-dry bulb method, students will compare the temperature of a dry temperature sensor and a wet temperature sensor. By comparing the temperatures, students will be able to find the relative humidity. After completing the...
Chem4kids
Chem4 Kids: Oxygen (O)
Here you can find some great information about the 8th element in the periodic table, "oxygen." Content focuses on oxygen's electrons, where you can find oxygen in nature and in the home, and how oxygen combines with other elements.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Teacher Resources: Groundwater Study Guide [Pdf]
This study guide is designed to help students begin thinking about groundwater - where it comes from, why it's important, and how it can be conserved and protected. The guide includes a brief overview of groundwater, a glossary, and...
Other
Siemens Science Day: Earth Science: Let's Get Carried Away!
This hands-on science activity allows students to use a stream table to learn about the processes of erosion and stream-bed formation. Students will understand the effect of water speed on erosion rate and stream formation.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Natural Disasters
Students are introduced to our planet's structure and its dynamic system of natural forces through an examination of the natural hazards of earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, tsunamis, floods and tornados, as well as avalanches, fires,...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Groundwater Aquifers
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The features of aquifers and the water table.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Groundwater Aquifers
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The features of aquifers and the water table.
Curated OER
Eternal Egypt: Alabaster Offering Table
Most offering tables were cut in a rectangular shape, but this one is circular. The lower part of the table is carved with the traditional Hetep hieroglyphic sign, which means "offering." The upper surface is carved with vessels and...
Curated OER
Eternal Egypt: Meroitic Offering Table
The offering table is stylistically dated to the Meroitic Period. The center of the table has four round bread rolls arranged symmetrically in two rows. Between the rows of rolls, water is shown pouring out from a tall jar on a stand.