The table of contents entitled "Activities Listed Alphabetically" lists activities alphabetically by title and provides a brief description of each lesson. "Activities Listed Alphabetically" is emulated below.
| Acid Rain Reactions |
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Through simulations and experimentation, students explore the effects of acid precipitation on the urban environment. |
157 |
| AfterMath |
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By calculating economic loss that results from flooding in a specific area, students investigate how people are affected by floods and other weather events. |
263 |
| A-maze-ing Water |
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Students guide a drop of water though a maze of "drainage pipes" to learn how actions in the home and yard affect water quality. |
167 |
| Aqua Bodies |
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Students trace their bodies and color portions to represent the amount of water their bodies contain. How does their water content compare to that of a cactus, lettuce, or a whale? |
69 |
| Back to the Future |
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Students analyze streamflow monitoring data to determine the safest location for a future community. |
267 |
| Best Use for Brownfields (The) |
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Acting as members of a "neighborhood association," students propose a plan for cleaning up and redeveloping a brownfield site. Then they apply that experience to looking at brownfields in their own community. |
274 |
| Capture, Store, and Release |
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Students use a household sponge to simulate how wetlands capture, store, and release water. |
111 |
| Check It Out! |
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Through teacher observations and student feedback, student learning via the activities in this guide can be assessed. |
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| Choices and Preferences, Water Index |
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Students rank and compare different uses of water. The class develops a water index , an indication of the group's feelings and values about water and its uses. |
355 |
| Color Me A Watershed |
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Through interpretation of maps, students observe how development can affect a watershed. |
171 |
| Common Water |
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Student analyze the results of a simulation to understand that water is a shared resource and is managed. |
180 |
| Design Away Floods |
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After observing one way that development affects flooding, students work in small groups to design an urban community that reduces the risk of flooding. |
286 |
| Dilemma Derby |
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Students debate the pros and cons of different solutions to water management issues. |
361 |
| Drop in the Bucket (A) |
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By estimating and calculating the percent of available fresh water on Earth, students understand that this resource is limited and must be conserved. |
186 |
| Energetic Water |
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Students invent devices or create activities that demonstrate how moving water can accomplish work. |
190 |
| Environmental Justice For All |
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Students propose actions to address environmental justice problems and then research neighborhoods in their community to uncover possible environmental justice issues. They also conduct a survey investigating people's perceptions of their community's environmental health. |
366 |
| Every Drop Counts |
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Students identify and implement water conservation habits to learn how this essential resource can be shared with other water users of today and tomorrow. |
293 |
Fishable Waters |
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Investigate the impact that human activity and natural processes have on water quality and fish populations. |
247 |
| From Source to City |
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Students explore the unique route of their drinking water from its source to release. |
194 |
| Get the Groundwater Picture |
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Students will learn about basic groundwater principals as they create their own geologic cross section or earth window. |
114 |
| Grave Mistake (A) |
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Students analyze data to solve a mystery and identify a potential polluter. |
297 |
| Great Water Journeys |
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Using a global map and a set of clue cards, students locate some significant water journeys. |
207 |
| H20 Heroes |
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Students identify, research, and write about local people who have contributed to the conservation and health of their community's water resources. |
377 |
| H2Olympics |
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Students compete in a Water Olympics to investigate two properties of water, adhesion and cohesion. |
39 |
| Hangin' Together |
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Students mimic the water molecule's special ability to hold onto other water molecules; they also present four properties of water that are critical to life on Earth. |
44 |
| Hot Water |
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Using debate strategies, students learn how to present a valid argument regarding a water-related issue. |
381 |
| Idea Pools |
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This teaching strategy involves using a network of ideas to pool (categorize) students' interests, thoughts, feelings, and experiences related to water and water concepts. |
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| In Water We Trust |
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Working in small groups, students study their water supplier's water quality report (or "consumer confidence report") to find out about potential contaminants in their city's drinking water. After doing research to learn more about these contaminants, they test their knowledge about drinking water contamination in a friendly contest. |
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| Incredible Journey (The) |
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With a roll of the die, students simulate the movement of water within the water cycle. |
122 |
| Is There Water on Zork? |
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Students describe the unique characteristics of water and design investigations to distinguish water from other clear liquids. |
52 |
| Leadbusters |
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Students read a letter written in 1786 by Benjamin Franklin that describes his observations of how lead can affect people. They then research, create, and perform a drama about the hazards and health effects of lead from water and other sources, including ways to prevent lead poisoning. |
311 |
| Let's Work Together |
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While conducting the activities in the WET in the City Curriculum and Activity Guide , students working in small groups use cooperative learning strategies to build teamwork skills. |
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| Life in the Fast Lane |
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Through a scavenger hunt and investigations of temporary wetlands in their neighborhood, students learn the benefits of and challenges to organisms living in temporary wetlands. |
72 |
| Long Haul (The) |
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Students work in teams to compete in a water-hauling game. |
215 |
| Money Down the Drain |
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Through observation and simple calculations, students learn that a dripping faucet wastes a valuable resource. |
320 |
| No Bellyachers |
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Students will participate in a series of demonstrations and a game of tag to show how illness-causing bacteria and viruses are spread by water. |
78 |
| Pass the Jug |
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Students simulate and analyze different water rights policies to learn how water availability and people's proximity to the resource influence how water is allocated. |
385 |
| Perspectives |
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Students analyze public values toward water issues to help them evaluate approaches to managing water resources. |
390 |
| Poison Pump |
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Through a series of clues, students solve a mystery to discover that water can also produce negative effects for people. |
82 |
| Price Is Right (The) |
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Students learn about economics and environmental planning as they calculate the cost of building a water development project. |
325 |
| Raining Cats and Dogs |
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Students analyze and interpret water sayings - through a card game, skits, pantomime, and creative writing - to compare figures of speech across cultures and climate zones. |
413 |
| Rainstick (The) |
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Students build a rainstick out of materials in their own environment and, like people of ancient cultures, imitate the sound of rain. |
420 |
| Rainy Day Hike |
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Students are introduced to the concept of watersheds by collecting data about water flowing over school grounds. |
127 |
| Reaching Your Limits |
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Through a game of "limbo," students experience the effort involved in meeting drinking-water quality standards. |
330 |
| Recipe For Clean Water (A) |
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Students examine labels of household products to learn what hazardous chemicals they may contain. They also try less toxic alternatives to some of these chemicals to reduce the amount of toxins that go down the drain. |
217 |
| Sparkling Water |
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Students develop strategies to remove contaminants from "wastewater." |
334 |
| Sum of the Parts |
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Students demonstrate how everyone contributes to the pollution of a river as it flows through a watershed and recognize that everyone's "contribution" can be reduced. |
226 |
| Super Bowl Surge |
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Students do in-depth research and present action plans to solve the problem of increased demands on a community's wastewater treatment plant. |
339 |
| Super Sleuths |
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Students learn about the diversity of waterborne disease control by searching for others who have been "infected" with the same waterborne illness as they have. |
88 |
| Thirsty Plants |
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Through demonstration and field studies, students learn about transpiration and the significant role plants play in the water cycle. |
97 |
| Thunderstorm (The) |
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Students simulate the sounds of a thunderstorm through an aerobics activity and generate precipitation maps through a mock monitoring network. |
132 |
| Urban Water Safari |
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While taking a "safari" around the classroom, schoolyard, or neighborhood, students create an urban field guide and discover that local water sources meet the needs of wildlife in their neighborhood. |
137 |
| Urban Waterway Checkup |
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Students learn about characteristics that are used to gauge the health of streams and rivers, and then apply their knowledge in analyzing the health of a hypothetical urban waterway. |
230 |
| Water Actions |
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Investigating, analyzing, and participating in projects that address water resource issues give students a sense of accomplishment and provide motivation to help manage and protect water. |
11 |
| Water Address |
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Students identify plants and animals and their habitats by analyzing clues that describe water-related adaptations of aquatic and terrestrial organisms. |
103 |
| Water Celebration |
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Students plan a water celebration. |
424 |
| Water Concentration |
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Through the familiar game of Concentration, students make connections between modern and past water use practices and discuss how attitudes toward water changed as water use practices evolved. |
393 |
| Water Court |
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Students learn how conflicts involving water quality and quantity (and other issues) can be resolved through mediation and litigation. |
399 |
| wAteR in moTion |
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Students create artwork to help them appreciate the movement and sound of water in their environment. |
428 |
| Water Log |
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Students use a water log (journal or portfolio) to write or illustrate their observations, feelings, and actions related to water. The log serves as an assessment tool to monitor changes over time related to knowledge of and attitudes toward water. |
18 |
| Water Match |
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Students match up pairs of water picture cards and in the process learn to distinguish the three states of water - solid, liquid, and gas. |
56 |
| Water Meter |
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Students construct a "Water Meter" to keep track of their water use. |
238 |
| Water Models |
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Students construct models of the water cycle to illustrate its major components and processes, and adapt their models to show how they think water would cycle in various ecosystems. |
143 |
| Water Work Shuffle |
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Students lean about different water resource occupations and place them in sequence-from water's source, to its delivery into homes, to its return to the environment. |
346 |
| Water Works |
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Students create a "water web" to illustrate the interdependence among water users and producers. |
242 |
| Wet Vacation |
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After plotting annual precipitation and average temperatures, and researching climatic conditions of places around the country, students design attractive travel brochures. |
148 |
| What's the Solution? |
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While investigating the dissolving power of water, students solve a crime. |
60 |
| Who Wants to Be a Water Champion? |
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Through a simulated game show, students test their water knowledge and can work as a class to further that knowledge. |
22 |
| Whose Problem Is It? |
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Students analyze the scope and duration of a variety of water related issues to understand the relationship between local and global issues. |
407 |
| Wish Book |
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Using catalogue selections from the late 1800s and the present, students compare and contrast the role of water in the leisure time of people, past and present. |
432 |
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