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Website
US Environmental Protection Agency

Epa: Conservation

For Students 9th - 10th
Official site with information and resources relating to all aspects of environmental conservation: data, maps and laws. Specific environmental information by zip code provides immediate relevance to your world.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Environmental Science: Water Pollution and Treatment

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about water management, treatment and purification- global issues that must be addressed to ensure a continued supply of safe water for the growing human population and for the organisms with which we share this planet.
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Other

Virtual Field Trip: Water/aquifers

For Students 6th - 8th
This virtual field trip for middle school students looks at aquifers and their place in the hydrologic cycle. Students learn why and how it is important to protect the source of your drinking water and some unique details about the...
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Website
Other

World Vision: Water Matters Connection

For Students 3rd - 8th
Become informed about the importance of the world's clean water availability through games, photo albums, photo puzzles, quizzes, online polls, and teacher resources.
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Handout
State Energy Conservation Office-Texas

State Energy Conservation Office: Renewable Energy for the Home [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 6th
Discusses different ways to heat and cool a home, and perform a variety of tasks, using renewable energy sources. Examples include window shades, a solar water heater, solar-powered toys, etc.
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Activity
National Geographic

National Geographic: Programs: Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Project

For Students 9th - 10th
A project-based collaborative unit of study that teaches students about watershed health using real-time geospatial technology. Students engage in outdoor field experiences while using twenty-first century learning skills.
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Other

Earth Day Network: Conserving Water Through Art [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
A lesson challenging learners 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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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Fifth Grade Science: Earth Science: Protecting the Water Supply

For Students 4th - 6th
Explore the ways to reduce water pollution and strategies for conserving water with this module. The modules reviews over ways water is polluted and how individuals can conserve water.
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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.
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Other

Children's Water Education Council: Waste Water Watcher (Mini Unit) [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Waste Water Watcher is a 9-page mini-unit on essential and non-essential use of water by humans.
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Other

We Calc: Your Home Water Water Energy Climate Calculator

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Through a thorough survey examining your home water habits to estimate your water use as well as connect the water energy use in your home to the emission of greenhouse gas.
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PPT
Other

Managing Wholes: Water Cycle Basics

For Students 9th - 10th
A great slideshow that compares an effective water cycle with an ineffective one. Content can be read in five different languages.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies:from Your John to the School Lawn:is Recycled Water Really Safe?

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out whether reclaimed water is really safe by following the guidelines of the Science Buddies project.
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Website
US Department of Energy

U.s. Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Access to information, policy initiatives, advice, and analysis on issues of energy efficiency and renewable energy, from the U.S. Department of Energy. Its network is responsible for tracking the technological, economic, and...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Fresh or Salty?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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, learners learn about water bodies on the planet Earth and their various uses...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Put Some Blue in Your Green School

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Lesson Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: The Conservation Movement at a Crossroads

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The debate over damming the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park marked a crossroads in the American conservation movement. Until this debate, conservationists seemed fairly united in their aims. San Francisco's need for a...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Text Sets: Nature and Conservation

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about how the natural world interacts with itself and how people impact the planet with this science-based text collection of 46 Grade-Leveled texts (3-12) on the topic of Nature and Conservation. [Free account registration...
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Handout
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Schools Online:knowing Your World: Water Rich Water Poor

For Students 3rd - 5th
"Water Rich Water Poor" emphasizes the importance of water conservation and provides suggestions for conserving water.
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Website
Other

The Groundwater Foundation: Easy Ways to Conserve Water

For Students Pre-K - 1st
What are some easy ways to conserve water? This resource features some practical ways to accomplish this important task. Students and teachers can work to conserve water at school and at home.
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Website
Other

The Groundwater Foundation: Easy Ways to Conserve Water

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Activity
Other

North Carolina Department of Energy and Natural Resources: Grade Your Schoolyard

For Students 3rd - 8th
What is your school doing to protect and conserve water? Use the following questions to find out. When you are done, make some suggestions for how your school could improve. What could you and your class do to help?
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Professional Doc
eSchool Today

E School Today: What Is Your Role in Water Preservation?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Find out what you can do about global water scarcity and conservation.
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Other

Water History: The First Five: Brief Overview of the First Reclamation Projects

For Students 9th - 10th
Theodore Roosevelt's presidency had a focus on conservation. This site outlines the first five water projects begun in the early 1900s in the western United States that had a great effect on opening up land for agricultural production.

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