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Utah Education Network

Uen: Water World Story

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders will write a story about how a drop of water may have traveled to arrive at the school.
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Water

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
The Science of Water Teacher's Guide provides a number of inquiry-based activities for grades 3-5 (although it can be expanded for other grades). The guide contains science lessons that enable students to explore water, behavior of...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What Happened to the Water? Designing Ways to Get and Clean

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this scenario-based activity, students design ways to either clean a water source or find a new water source, depending on given hypothetical family scenarios. They act as engineers to draw and write about what they could do to...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Ncee: Tapped Dry: How Do You Solve a Water Shortage?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Water is a limited and sometimes scarce resource. What do you do when the supply is limited?
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 12.27 Water Pollution

For Students 5th - 9th
Understand water as a limited resource, and how it becomes polluted.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Supercooling Water and Snap Freezing

For Students 6th - 8th
Can water remain liquid below its normal freezing point? If it does, that water is supercool(-ed). This project shows you a method for supercooling water. You can test water from different sources to see whether or not it can be...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What to Wear? What to Drink? Weather Patterns and Climatic R

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
How does our climate affect us? How do we decide what to wear each day? What factors determine if our clothing choices are comfortable? What is the source of our water? Students explore characteristics that define climatic regions. They...
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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Identifying Your Watershed

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students identify the watershed they live in and study the pathway of surface runoff which ultimately becomes the source of water used at home,
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Other

Nc Department of Energy and Natural Resources: What Is Stormwater Pollution

For Students 3rd - 8th
When it rains, some of the rainwater soaks into the ground, and part of it flows over the ground and directly into creeks, streams, or rivers. This water that runs off into the river is called runoff, or sometimes stormwater runoff....
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The Franklin Institute

The Franklin Institute Online: Slick Sea Spills

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Use this site to promote environmental awareness in your classroom with this lesson on the effects of oil spills on water habitats.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Waste Not, Want Not: Use the Microbial Fuel Cell to Create Elec

For Students 9th - 10th
Gross. What is that in the toilet? But maybe it's not just gross. Did you know there are bacteria that digest organic waste and create electrons? What if there was a way to collect those electrons to power a circuit? In this science fair...
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PBS

Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Rivers and Streams

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Learn more about Rivers and Streams through this educational resource. This site features photographs, a description, fun facts, and more about this type of freshwater ecosystem.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Stephen's Woodrat

For Students 4th - 8th
Juniper trees are the main source of food, water, and shelter for Stephen's Woodrat. Like Red Tree Voles, which feed mostly on Douglas-fir, the Woodrats are able to feed primarily on conifer leaves, which contain chemical compounds -...

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