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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: How Is Water Cleaned and Tested?

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this summary of how water cleaned and tested.
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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: How Is Drinking Water Cleaned?

For Students 3rd - 5th
Get an overview of how water is treated in order to be safe to use and drink.
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National Institutes of Health

Niehs: Kids' Pages: Water, the Never Ending Story

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Online children's story that teaches about the importance of keeping water clean. Click on "next" at the bottom of the story to discover why having pure water affects the way we live and learn.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Save a Life, Clean Some Water!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Student teams practice water quality analysis through turbidity measurement and coliform bacteria counts. They use information about water treatment processes to design prototype small-scale water treatment systems and test the influent...
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Other

Charity: Water

For Students 9th - 10th
Get to know this non-profit organization whose goal is to bring clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. Inspirational videos and stories are included on the site.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Human Water Cycle

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students learn about the human water cycle, or how humans impact the water cycle by settling down in civilizations. Specifically, they learn how people obtain, use and dispose of water. Students also learn about shortages of treated,...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Can You Catch the Water?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students construct a three-dimensional model of a water catchment basin using everyday objects to create hills, mountains, valleys and water sources. They experiment to see where rain travels and collects, and survey water pathways to...
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Other

It's Not a Pipe Dream: Clean Energy From Water Pipes Comes to Portland

For Students 9th - 10th
A Portland, Oregon-based startup that launched in 2007, is starting to capture the energy of water pipes, beginning with a pilot project in Riverside, California and now with a full-scale project in Portland.
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Climate Literacy

Clean: What Happens to Ice in Water?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate the properties of water in the ice and liquid phase as it relates to convection in the ocean and density driven circulation, and ultimately the climate.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Let's Get Dirty

For Teachers 4th - 8th
In a very hands-on activity, students observe and feel the differences between two cleaning methods, with and without hand soap, using coffee grounds to represent "dirt."Most of the dirt and bacteria on our hands is encased in a thin...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Goo Be Gone: Cleaning Up Oil Spills

For Students 9th - 10th
Oil spills devastate wildlife and our precious water resources. Test the absorptivity of different materials (sorbents) to discover which ones are best at removing oil from water in this brief lab.
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Province of British Columbia

Government of b.c.: Teacher's Guide to Clean Air: The Clean Air Crusaders [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 6th
The 'Clean Air Crusaders' help teachers work with students to educate them about all kinds of air pollution and ways to improve our environment.
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Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere?

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about global access to clean water and apply the engineering design process to develop a solution to purify water.
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Read Works

Read Works: A Clean Drink of Water

For Teachers 1st
[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.
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Museum of Science

Ei E: Water, Water Everywhere: Lessons: Designing a Water Filters

For Teachers 1st - 5th
This unit offers four lessons demonstrating a classroom working on the engineering problem of providing clean water as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own water filters.
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Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Water Quality Resources

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore these resources to learn more about the natural and engineered processes that can help contribute to improved water quality.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Protecting Water From Pollution

For Students 9th - 10th
[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...
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Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Global Water Issues

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore reports and news articles to build understanding of global water issues.
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Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Water Quality: Possible Solutions

For Students 9th - 10th
Students act as engineers to design a basic solution to the water quality problems studied.
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Other

Water Pollution

For Students 3rd - 8th
Read about the different types of water pollution and the harm it can cause. Learn about oil spills how they are cleaned up, and how you can help prevent water pollution. Additional links point to other topics relevant to the study of...
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Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Make a Prototype and Test Your Design

For Students 9th - 10th
Students create a water purification system, and test it out to see how well it works to purify a water sample.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: Human Impact on Water Quality

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson, learners explore human impact on water resources, investigate the quality of their community's water supply, and consider ways to clean up and avoid further pollution. (Note: Some of the links may no longer work and...
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Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Consider Constraints/ Explore Possibilities

For Students 9th - 10th
Students design a water purification system given certain constraints.
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Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Final Presentation

For Students 9th - 10th
Students plan to present their water purification system at the end of a project-based learning exercise.

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