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Lesson plans

The Water Science School likes to make life easier for teachers. Here we offer teacher guides with lesson plans and students worksheets complete with answers that can aid teachers in helping their students learn about water.

Water Insights: Short Education Activities to Explore the NWAA Report

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How Do Wildfires Affect Our Water?

In this activity students will learn how wildfires impact watersheds and water quality and think critically about how people and communities can adapt to these changes. 

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Building the Water Cycle Diagram

This lesson will help activate and assess students' prior knowledge about the water cycle and eventually progress to help build their knowledge. The final portion of this lesson plan includes an online interactive activity that can help keep students engaged throughout the entire lesson.

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Water in Our World: Exploring Storage and Movement in Different Environments

In this lesson plan students will investigate and compare where water is stored and how it moves in six different environments: deserts, forests, urban areas, suburban areas, coastlines, and agricultural regions.

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Condensation illustration demonstrating different condensation processes. Illustrations feature, buildings, volcanoes, planes and wildfires.


Our Water, Our Lives: A Series of Water Units for Intermediate Elementary

The goal of Our Water, Our Lives is to help students realize that they can contribute solutions to water-related challenges with their unique experience and knowledge. As students learn about the science of water, its uses for human and ecological systems, and its role in the development of culture, they begin thinking of themselves as future leaders that will solve these STEM-centered problems. For more information about the Our Water, Our Lives series, visit Our Water, Our Lives: A Series of Water Units for Intermediate Elementary
 

California

California

The Chesapeake Bay Watershed

The Chesapeake Bay Watershed

Floods

Floods


Water Resources Professional's Outreach Notebook - Groundwater (Grades 6-8) 

This notebook provides five lesson plans developed to help educators and Water Resources Professionals discuss the subject of ground water with students in grades 6-8.

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