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WATER You Doing to Help?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Auntie Litter is here to educate young scholars about water pollution and environmental stewardship! Although the 15-minute video clip is cheesy, it's an engaging look at the water cycle and conservation. Learners start by illustrating...
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Water Cycle: Social Studies Online

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
If you need a presentation that describes the 3 elements of the water cycle then this PowerPoint could be a good starting point. This resource is basic in its presentation and formating, and only defines the words evaporation,...
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Water Cycle (Grades 2-4)

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students demonstrate their understanding of the water cycle and how it effects the environment by graphically depicting and describing the water cycle.
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How Much Water is Available in the Atmosphere for Precipitation?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore the relationship between the amount of water in the atmosphere available for precipitation and the actual precipitation observed by satellite. They examine seasonal changes in precipitation. They practice using Internet...
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Water: Our Most Important Beverage

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create a KWL chart about water. In this environmental science lesson, 3rd graders demonstrate how much water on Earth is usable. They act out the different stages of the water cycle.
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Air and Water in the Environment

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners explore the traits of water condensation and evaporation. For this water cycle lesson, students develop an awareness of the importance of water for sustaining life. Learners participate in a hands-on activity in which water is...
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Water Cycle -- Presentation Teaching Model

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students continue their examination of the water cycle. In groups, they present their findings to the class after researching a specific topic related to the water cycle. They spend the rest of the lessons asking questions and answering...
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Water: The Incredible Resource

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars understand the importance of water in any ecosystem. In this water lesson, students recognize where water is found, the type of water found, and how water is changed in the water cycle.  Young scholars complete worksheets...
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Water Supply and Water Uses

For Teachers 8th - 10th
A large variety of topics are given in this PowerPoint about water. Some come from a scientific point of view, some regarding recreation, some for domestic use, and others from hydroelectricity.  A teacher could choose to use this...
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Watershed Ways

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students connect the water cycle concept with local fresh water availability and consumption. They identify waterways in their own region. Students define, predict, research, and map local watershed areas. They research the positive...
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Agriculture is a Cycle

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore cycles in nature. In this cross curriculum agriculture lesson, students define "cycle" and research weather and planting folklore. Students make a bracelet in which individual colored beads represent the many "cycles" of...
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Geography: Water, Water Everywhere

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss flooding and its causes. They view a Powerpoint presentation about floods and prevention methods. After creating a model with clay and pans, they investigate river behavior in various terrains with different amounts of...
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Water Is Cool!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study water as a non-renewable resource. For this water lesson, students examine sources of water, uses of water, and explain why it is important to take care of water sources for the common good. They research the water cycle...
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Biosphere II

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students continue their examination of the existence of life on Earth. In groups, they determine the role of the water cycle and other biogeochemical cycles play in keeping balance on Earth. They participate in experiments to discover...
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Building A Solar Still

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners investigate the water cycle by viewing an online video.  In this drinking water lesson, students create solar stills at their campus in order to purify water that is tainted.  Learners view a video on their computers about...
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Is the Hudson River Too Salty to Drink?

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students explore reasons for varied salinity in bodies of water. In this geographical inquiry lesson, students use a variety of visual and written information including maps, data tables, and graphs, to form a hypothesis as to why the...
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Water: Our Most Important Beverage

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders complete a KWL chart on what they already know about water and what they want to know. As a class, they participate in an activity in which they discover the amount of drinkable water on Earth and are introduced to the...
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Kids Conserve? Water Preserved

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders review the steps of the water cycle. Individually, they calculate the amount of water they use in a day and identify ways they can conserve. As a class, they discuss how conserving water today helps future generations and...
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Water -- Here, There and Everywhere

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students compare quantities of water. In this water lesson students examine the hydrologic cycle looking for the amount of fresh water that is available. Students use information from charts and diagrams.
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Water: Access and Use

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students get a personal sense for another culture's way of doing things. Develop a list of sources for water. Practice using the scientific method. Examine means for conserving, or for generating, reliable sources of water.
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Water - The Transporter

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars discuss the role of water in transporting sediments and dissolved particles.  In this interdisciplinary activity, students read about how water transports sediments and changes the landscape.  They complete a variety of...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Make a Difference!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
We are very dependent upon other life forms around us to survive. Here, scholars explore relationships in the ecosystem with the help of Auntie Litter and the pollution patrol. They imagine a world without grass, making connections to...
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Sunken Millions

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
This PowerPoint provides a game show format with multiple choice questions about fresh and salt water. Topics include sources of water, water geography, uses of water, and the water cycle.
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Water, Water Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students discuss the importance of taking care of their water supply so not only they can use it but generations in the future. In groups, they examine a real pollution scenario in which a sewer overflowed into the ground water. They use...

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