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Lessons & Activities

Use the links below to find a wide variety of lesson plans, activities, and stunts.

Grades K-3

  • All the water in the world
    from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 1
  • Aquifer in a cup
    from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water
  • Build your own water cycle
    from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water

Grades 4-8

  • Where does water come from
    from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water
  • Build your own aquifer
  • How people get their water
  • Nonpoint source pollution
  • Role of plants in water filtration
  • Water purification by evaporation and condensation

Links to other lesson plans/activities/stunts

from the National Science Foundation

  • Chemistry of Oxygen Solubility (12-13)
  • Conductivity (12-13)
  • Data Interpretation (12-13)
  • Modeling Water Quality (12-13)
  • Properties of Water (12-13)

from the U.S. EPA

  • Build Your own Watershed (8-12)
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