Handout
PBS

Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Rivers and Streams

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Learn more about Rivers and Streams through this educational resource. This site features photographs, a description, fun facts, and more about this type of freshwater ecosystem.
Activity
US Environmental Protection Agency

Epa: Reservoirs: Holding Tanks for Drinking Water [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 8th
How do people get their water reservoirs for drinking water? This site features an in-depth explanation of this question. Come and check it out.
Lesson Plan
Other

Cwec: Water Salty or Fresh? (Mini Unit) [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This mini-unit is designed to teach learners an appreciation of our water resources and how we must not take them for granted if we are to survive.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Water You Doing to Help?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), conservation of water resources will be explored. This lesson is one from the "Take Pride Statewide" series. *Lesson provided by Julie Danley and Pam Walston.
Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: The Atmosphere, the Ocean, and Environmental Change

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from a course that explores the physical processes the control Earth's atmosphere, ocean, and climate that is taught at Yale University. The course covers topics like clouds, rain, severe storms, regional...
Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Water Resources Engineering

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from a course on water resources engineering. Webpage includes twenty-eight lectures from a professor at the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning. Lectures vary in length and cover topics like...
Activity
Cynthia J. O'Hora

Mrs. O's House: Water: Math of Sufficient Fresh Water

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Through research of community water assessment and reports, students will make a video presentation of the local water resources.
Graphic
Other

Grid Adrenal: Global Freshwater Resources: Quantity and Distribution by Region

For Students 9th - 10th
Glaciers and icecaps contain approximately 70% of the world's freshwater, but groundwater is by far the most abundant and readily available source of freshwater. This graphic illustrates the quantity (in cubic kilometres) and...
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Where Is Water Found?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This activity is a demonstration that will help young scholars conceptualize how little of the Earth's water is actually usable for humans. It instills an understanding of why it is so important to protect water resources.
Lesson Plan
Texas State Historical Association

Texas State Historical Association: Water Resources [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 8th
An activity guide where students refer to the Texas Almanac, which is free to download, for information needed to complete assigned tasks. In this lesson, they learn the difference between primary and secondary streams, then research and...