Students discover how we use land. They gain insight into the way we use the land, both for benefit and consequence. Students explore how to 'listen to the land' as they make decisions on how it should be used and the consequences of...

Students examine, through demonstration and experimentation, how water moves through watershed, identify pollutants that can enter water system from different land use activities, and discuss ways people can help prevent water pollution.

Livestock managers reinforce math and science skills while learning about the nutrients found in manure. They predict which animal produces the largest amount and which animal's manure contains the most nitrogen. Finally, they compare...

In this environmental issues learning exercise, students learn about sanitary landfills and dumps by reading a one page information text. Students also study the cross section of a landfill. There are no questions to answer.

Fourth graders learn about reduce, reuse, and recycle and identify household hazardous products. Students learn about less hazardous alternatives and complete an inventory of hazardous materials in a typical household.

Students examine urban runoff and identify peak flows. They examine causes for different flow rates, and complete worksheets and a graph.

Fourth graders discuss the concept of reduce, reuse and recycle. They identify products in their homes that are hazardous and discover alternatives to them. They examine the inventory of other classmates hazardous materials.

Students engage in a lesson that is about the concept of storage tanks and how they are used. The advantages and disadvantages of them is discussed with the facts given by the teacher during lecture and concurrent discussion.

Students investigate the bats of Puerto Rico. They conduct research in order to find information to construct a powerpoint presentation. They create a dvd of the presentation and go on a tour to a local cave to see the environment where...

Understand what a contaminant plume is when examining groundwater flow. Recognize the shape and what they're made up of.

This site features a map of the United States which indicates areas with the highest risk of nitrate contamination in ground water. Links to a description of ground water contamination in U.S.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How polluted groundwater is cleaned up.

This site talks about related problems to groundwater contamination in Bangladesh and the challenges that face the people there.

Student teams locate a contaminant spill in a hypothetical site by measuring the pH of soil samples. Then they predict the direction of groundwater flow using mathematical modeling. They also use the engineering design process to come up...

Students are introduced to the fundamentals of environmental engineering as well as the global air, land and water quality concerns facing today's environmental engineers. After a lesson and activity to introduce environmental...

Set in the context of ground water contamination in Bangladesh, this stoichiometry and analytical chemistry activity examines the issues around identifying wells contaminated with arsenic.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How polluted groundwater is cleaned up.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How groundwater can be polluted.

Directions for doing a simple simulation that shows how pollution spreads through groundwater sources.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Summarizes the key points about groundwater pollution and depletion. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.

This US Geological Survey site briefly discusses the basics of why pesticides are increasingly found in our ground water. Click Home to access the site in Spanish.

Learn about the public's drinking water, the oversight agencies that govern it, and what needs to be done in an emergency if it becomes contaminated.

After creating a model, students will investigate factors that affect water runoff both positively and negatively, and the impact this has on the quality of groundwater.

Critical source of freshwater and most abundant, yet also the most polluted is groundwater. Discover how scientists work to purify this important resource to make it useable.