Water quality Teacher Resources

Students discover how tiny microscopic plants can remove nutrients from polluted water. They also learn how to engineer a system to remove pollutants faster and faster by changing the environment for the algae.

This is online resource is for teachers of all grades. The Water Sourcebook contains activities grouped according to grade level. Detailed lesson plans are provided along with glossary and fact sheets.

A collection of downloadable, ready-to-use lessons and student worksheets aimed to raise awareness of the need for safe drinking water. Lessons are investigative in nature and utilize inexpensive materials that can be purchased at most...

Create graphs of marine ecosystems using real-time data.

Students focus on the environmental engineering problem of providing clean water as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own water filters.

Students focus on the environmental engineering problem of providing clean water as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own water filters.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational about people in a South American village who needed clean water to drink. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

Water plays a crucial role in the lives of every living being on Earth. Learn about how this essential resource is used across the planet each day, and how clean water is often difficult for many populations to obtain. Includes...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explains why keeping water from being polluted is preferable to cleaning it after being polluted, and what has happened since the passage of the Clean Water Act in...

Students create a water purification system, and test it out to see how well it works to purify a water sample.

Students design a water purification system given certain constraints.

Students plan to present their water purification system at the end of a project-based learning exercise.

Ever wonder where your drinking water comes from? And what happens to it after you're done? "Excuse Me, Is this the Way to the Drain Pipe?" is a great story and lesson plan about a drop of water going through the water cycle and through...

Clean water is not a given everywhere in the world. In this science fair project, students will investigate whether sunlight could be used to disinfect contaminated water. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently...

Students brainstorm new ideas during part of the engineering process of designing a water purification system.

Part of a larger project where students design a water purification system, this is the step where they select an approach and develop a design proposal.

Part of a larger project where students design a water purification system, this is the step where they refine their design and create their final system.

Resources for communicating results of a PBL unit where students designed a water purification system.

Some ideas to help students think of preparing a creative presentation for thier water purification PBL.

Students will learn about the importance of water and the role it plays in our lives. Students will be exposed to what must occur each day so that they can have clean water.

Activity uses water-quality data from Rock Creek Park to illustrate elementary statistical measures of exploratory data analysis. The focus of the lesson is the nutrient limitation in a stream and the three measures of central tendency.

Learning module focuses on measures of variability such as range, variance, and standard deviation which are used to examine nitrate levels and water quality.

Interview with Windell Curole, Levee Manager, South Lafourche Parrish one year before Hurricane Katrina. He discusses living in and around the estuary, and how the levee system affects the water quality there. [7:06]

This simulation can be used to simulate water quality monitoring or to calculate biodiversity.