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Ecosystem Services - Water Purification

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Middle schoolers see that ecosystems provide services to people that are essential to life as we know it. Reporters (drops of water) could interview the trees and soil in the surrounding ecosystems for news stories on how they helped keep the river clean.

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ecosystems, pollution, water

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6th - 8th
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Science
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