Flow Rates of Faucets and Rivers

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Students use the Internet to research current and past snowpack levels and river gauging station readings. They determine the relationship between snowpack and river flow. They predict future river flow.

This "old school" video is of a teacher using a chalkboard (imagine that!), to illustrate how meandering rivers are created, and how they flow. The teacher does a good job of describing how the meandering river bed changes over time due...

Go with the flow and use a helpful resource. A set of two activities has learners investigate flow rates. They first determine the flow rate of a faucet by measuring how long it takes to fill a bucket. Using the results, they make a...

Students create a river. In this water flow lesson, students predict how they think their river will flow and then construct a river box. Students create a landscape for the river to flow through, let the river flow and record...