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Water on the Web

Curated by ACT

Water on the Web (WOW) is an advanced site allowing students to actively participate in data analysis from real research sites. Lesson plans on a range of topics are provided. There is also a tutorial for using Excel to graph WOW data.

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acidity, capillary action, carbon dioxide, cohesion, conductivity, data analysis, dissolved oxygen, outliers, photosynthesis, pressure, respiration, sediment, temperature, turbidity, water, ph

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alkalinity, bicarbonate, buffering, carbon cycle, classroom investigations, data visualization, detritus, excel, field investigations, gas solubility, landuse, latent energy, modeling, nonpolar, oxygen metabolism, phosphorus loading, polar, primary production, saturation, science research, suspended sediment, temperature profile, thermal stratification, thermocline, base, dipole, spreadsheet, watershed

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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