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Global Water Supply Elementary School Curriculum Unit

Global Water Supply Elementary School Curriculum

Lesson Planet
K - 5th
CCSS: Adaptable
Water is the focus of an interdisciplinary unit that brings awareness to its daily use around the world and the importance of conservation. Worksheets challenge scholars to match words and definitions, trace, complete a maze, and solve a...
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Recharging Aquifers Video

Recharging Aquifers

Lesson Planet
3 mins 6th - 10th
CCSS: Adaptable
The ninth lesson in a 10-part series on Fresh Solutions explains how aquifers develop and how people currently use them. The video also explores how aquifers are being depleted faster than they refill and the long-term concerns about...
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Exploring Our Growing Need for Water Lesson Plan

Exploring Our Growing Need for Water

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6th - 10th
CCSS: Adaptable
Pupils explore the amount of water people use in agriculture and for personal use. They compare water usage for various crops to that of raising animals before considering solutions for increased access to safe drinking water worldwide....
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Termite Activity Enhances Ecosystem Productivity and Stability Video

Termite Activity Enhances Ecosystem Productivity and Stability

Lesson Planet
1 min 9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Termites in your house? Bad. Termites in your garden ... good? Discover the good side of an insect that often gets a bad rap with an interesting animation. The narrator discusses how termites break down plant material, what the soil...
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Sustainability: Learning for a Lifetime – The Importance of Water Lesson Plan

Sustainability: Learning for a Lifetime – The Importance of Water

Lesson Planet
9th - 12th
Water is essential for life—and understanding the importance of clean drinking water is essential in understanding sustainability! Show your environmental science class the basics of water testing and treatment through a week-long...
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Let's Learn About Stewardship and River Basins Lesson Plan

Let's Learn About Stewardship and River Basins

Lesson Planet
8th
What does it mean to be a good steward? Middle school environmentalists learn to care for their state's waterways through research, a guest speaker, and poster activity. Groups must locate and learn more about a river basin and the human...
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The Little Stuff Can Make a Big Difference Lesson Plan

The Little Stuff Can Make a Big Difference

Lesson Planet
9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Great things come in small packages! What better way to illustrate this point than a week-long look at nanotechnology? Earth science scholars explore water quality issues through lab activities, then research new innovations in nanotech...
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Where is the World's Water? Lesson Plan

Where is the World's Water?

Lesson Planet
5th - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
Scholars discover the amount of the Earth's water in various locations such as the ocean, ice, the atmosphere, etc. They then make a model of the how much water those percentages represent. Finally, analysis questions bring the concepts...
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Water Cycle Interactive

Water Cycle

Lesson Planet
6th - 12th
Be water wise! Science scholars learn the water cycle on a global scale in part seven of a 13-installment series. The hands-on interactive allows them to explore Earth's water storage, types of precipitation, and the cycling of water...
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Landfill Video

Landfill

Lesson Planet
5 mins 9th - 12th
Where does that wrapper go after you throw it away? Most take the disposal of garbage for granted! An interesting lesson describes the structural requirements of a landfill and the special considerations that help keep groundwater safe....
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Island Cattle Ranching Lesson Plan

Island Cattle Ranching

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4th - 8th
CCSS: Designed
Is cattle ranching on Santa Rosa island viable or non-viable? Rather than focusing on the issues of the transition of Santa Rosa island from a privately owned island cattle ranch to a national park, class members are asked to consider if...
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Hard and Soft Water Video

Hard and Soft Water

Lesson Planet
4 mins 9th - 12th
What does it mean to have hard or soft water? Learners discover the chemistry behind water hardness in the fifth video of a seven-part series describing our water resources. Using simple animations and balanced chemical equations, young...
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Water Cycle Video

Water Cycle

Lesson Planet
4 mins 9th - 12th
Go with the flow! The first video of a seven-part series about the Earth's water resources introduces learners to the water cycle. With an emphasis on cause and effect, it presents the information simply through animation. And, with the...
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Water Treatment - Water Works Video

Water Treatment - Water Works

Lesson Planet
4 mins 9th - 12th
With so much water everywhere, how is it that people around the world don't have clean water for drinking and bathing? Part three in a seven-part series describing Earth's water resources introduces the class to the process of water...
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How 2 knOw? H2O and the Water Cycle Unit

How 2 knOw? H2O and the Water Cycle

Lesson Planet
7th
CCSS: Designed
Here is an essential lesson for an essential molecule! Immerse seventh graders into a comprehensive two-week journey through one of Earth's most important cycles, the water cycle. Dive into activities that illustrate the movement of...
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The Water Cycle for Schools: Advanced Ages Interactive

The Water Cycle for Schools: Advanced Ages

Lesson Planet
6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Explore the water cycle in an interactive diagram of the process. The diagram shows how water is a moving system and constantly changing forms. The resourc includes vocabulary words that pupils click on in order to discover more about...
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Living with Less Water Lesson Plan

Living with Less Water

Lesson Planet
9th - 12th
CCSS: Designed
Did you know that California produces two thirds of the fruits and nuts consumed in the United States? That it produces almost one third of the vegetables? Did you know that scientists warn that California is facing the onset of a...
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Arsenic and Selenium Removal From Drinking Water at a Minimal Cost Activities & Project

Arsenic and Selenium Removal From Drinking Water at a Minimal Cost

Lesson Planet
10th - Higher Ed
CCSS: Adaptable
Decide on the most efficient plan to supply drinking water. The second project-based learning task in a two-part series builds upon the first project. Pupils revisit the wells to supply drinking water, but they must make sure the...
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Water Supply Lesson Plan

Water Supply

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3rd - 5th
CCSS: Designed
Participate in three activities that look at the earth's limited water supply and the changes water goes through as it enters each phase of the water cycle. The resource is complete with three activities that demonstrate the changing...
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The Water Cycle — A Placemat for Kids Printables & Template

The Water Cycle — A Placemat for Kids

Lesson Planet
2nd - 5th
CCSS: Adaptable
What better time to reinforce a concept than when you're eating? Boost scholars' knowledge of the water cycle with an eye-catching placemat featuring playful raindrops and bright colors. 
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The Water Cycle Interactive
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The Water Cycle

Lesson Planet
3rd - 8th
CCSS: Designed
Explore all things water cycle in a truly engaging interactive. Water enthusiasts look at water as a system. They label the parts of the water cycle as they learn about them in a hands on activity, and then participate in a game where...
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Water Cycle Poster Printables & Template

Water Cycle Poster

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2nd - 5th
How many parts make up the water cycle? How many things on Earth rely on water as a system? Learn more about the water cycle in an informative and colorful poster. Print and hang, or project the graphic in the classroom for optimal use.
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Time Trials Lesson Plan

Time Trials

Lesson Planet
7th - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
Due to contaminants in the water, the Cuyahoga River, located in Ohio, caught fire in 1969. For this sixth activity, learners see how contaminated surface water reaches ground water. Through a demonstration, participants test the...
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The Water Cycle
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The Water Cycle

Lesson Planet
4th - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
Few things are more important to life on earth than water. This is a collection of resources for middle schoolers about the various stages of the water cycle. Included are hands-on activities/labs, videos, worksheets, and diagrams. Get your hands dirty (or wet!) and check them out.
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