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Read Works: New York Buildings "Going Green" [Pdf]
An informational text about eco-friendly buildings in New York City. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Earth Day Network: Conserving Water Through Art [Pdf]
A lesson challenging students to develop ways to conserve water in their homes after understanding the impact of water scarcity. A promise will be made by each student and a reminder craft created to help them keep the promises.
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Waterwise: Every Last Drop
Every Last Drop is an interactive website which takes a detailed look at how much water we waste on a daily basis and how small changes can make a big difference.
Government of Alberta
Alberta Environment: Focus on Water Quality
This article discusses the importance of water in our lives, the necessity for clean water, what threatens it, and how we can act to help protect the quality of our water.
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Children's Water Education Council: Waste Water Watcher (Mini Unit) [Pdf]
Waste Water Watcher is a 9-page mini-unit on essential and non-essential use of water by humans.
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Managing Wholes: Water Cycle Basics
A great slideshow that compares an effective water cycle with an ineffective one. Content can be read in five different languages.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Rainwater Harvesting Service Learning Project
Students will gain an understanding of a rainwater harvesting system, learn about rainfall patterns and water use for various purposes, then design and build a rainwater collection system for their school.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Put Some Blue in Your Green School
This learning project is designed to help schools become efficient water users and to raise awareness about the need to conserve water. Students will analyze the water use (indoor/outdoor) at their school and work with community partners...
NASA
Nasa: Climate Kids: Waterwise Landscaper
A conversation with Michelle Pekko-Seymoure, and landscaper who grows plants that need very little water. Learn about this growing practice which helps conserve one of our most important resources.
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Water Use It Wisely: Water Conservation Fun and Games for Kids
Play a fun game of memory by matching methods used to conserve water at home. Open the PDF to work on thought provoking activities about water use. Engaging lesson plans can be downloaded to share with students reinforcing how to use...
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Water Use It Wisely: Links and Resources for Water Conservation
A comprehensive reference page with numerous links to water conservation resources. On your quest to begin your own water preservation program, you can reach clean water organizations, read water conservation tips, research landscape...
National Institutes of Health
Niehs: Kids' Pages: Water, the Never Ending Story
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.
Scientific American
Scientific American: Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here
Once one of the driest countries on Earth now makes more freshwater than it needs. How can other countries learn what this nation has mastered in an effort to turn droughts around?
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Earth Science: Environmental Quiz
Test your knowledge of environmental issues in this quiz game.
Read Works
Read Works: Don't Waste Water
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about not wasting water. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: High and Dry
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the High Plains aquafer and problems created by the dwindling water supply. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Water Worries
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage discusses the world-wide shortage of clean drinking water and ways to conserve water. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Preserving Water Sources
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] It might seem like there is plenty of water on Earth, but that's not really the case. Water is a limited resource. That means that it is used faster than it is...
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Grace Communications Foundation: Water Program
Tools and information focusing on water conservation and actions people can take to reduce their "water footprint" in daily life. Proves a "water footprint" calculator, tips for saving water around the house, and a collection of...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Microbial Life: Los Angeles and the Future of Mono Lake: Web Quest
Student WebQuest studying biodiversity, preservation, and natural history. Students act as political advisors exploring Mono Lake's life forms the impact humans have on the environment. After researching the issues, students create a...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Fresh or Salty?
Between 70 and 75% of the Earth's surface is covered with water and there exists still more water in the atmosphere and underground in aquifers. In this lesson, students learn about water bodies on the planet Earth and their various uses...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Conserving Water
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how we can conserve water.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Are You a Water Waster?
In this activity, students monitor how much water is used if the water is left running while they brush their teeth. They use that information to calculate how much the whole family would use. They learn how much water can be conserved...
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The Groundwater Foundation: Easy Ways to Conserve Water
What are some easy ways to conserve water? This site features some practical ways to accomplish this important task. Students and teachers can work to conserve water at school and at home.