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Desalination: Turning Salt Water into Fresh Water WorksheetDesalination: Turning Salt Water into Fresh Water Worksheet
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San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
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2nd - 4th
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Desalination: Turning Salt Water into Fresh Water

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How does San Francisco supply its citizens with enough water, even during a drought? Learn about reservoirs and why desalination could be a good solution with a reading passage about water conservation. After kids finish the informational text, they answer six comprehension questions.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

informational texts, desalination, drinking water, freshwater, saltwater, aquifers, distillation, evaporation, droughts, reservoirs

Additional Tags

science

Instructional Ideas

  • Pair with a lesson on water treatment and conservation
  • Assign an extended research project on drinking water systems in your learners' community

Pros

  • A good addition to a lesson on the water cycle
  • Provides an answer key for the reading questions

Cons

  • Each page contains a lot of text, which could be challenging for developing readers

Common Core

RI.2.1 RI.3.1 RI.4.1

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