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Acid Rain (pdf)
This lab explores the creation of acid rain using carbonic, nitrous, nitric, and sulfurous acids.
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Formats: PDF | Word
This lab explores the creation of acid rain using carbonic, nitrous, nitric, and sulfurous acids.
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Formats: PDF | Word
Capillary Action and Adhesion (pdf)
Water can move through the ground not only by the direct influence of gravity and the indirect influence of gravity on overlying water, but by the physical property known as adhesion. Adhesion is why water exists immediately above the water table, and how water travels up a tree.
Grade Level: 6-8
Formats: PDF | Word
Water can move through the ground not only by the direct influence of gravity and the indirect influence of gravity on overlying water, but by the physical property known as adhesion. Adhesion is why water exists immediately above the water table, and how water travels up a tree.
Grade Level: 6-8
Formats: PDF | Word
Is Dilution the Solution to Pollution? (pdf)
This lab demonstrates the meaning of dilution and shows the possible disconnect between appearance and actual water quality.
Grade Level: 6-8
Formats: PDF | Word
This lab demonstrates the meaning of dilution and shows the possible disconnect between appearance and actual water quality.
Grade Level: 6-8
Formats: PDF | Word
Drinking Dirty Water (pdf)
This lesson teaches the importance of clean drinking water and shows that water quality can not be determined solely by appearance.
Grade Level: 1-3
Formats: PDF | Word
This lesson teaches the importance of clean drinking water and shows that water quality can not be determined solely by appearance.
Grade Level: 1-3
Formats: PDF | Word
Is Your Water Clean? (pdf)
Over 2 million people rely on groundwater from karst aquifers in central Texas. Due to the high porosity and permeability of karst landscapes, inputs such as rain, streams, and rivers influence groundwater quality. In this lab students will compare the quality of water from different sources. This lesson involves students testing samples of water from different sources for pollutants and discussing the possible sources of these pollutants.
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Formats: PDF | Word
Over 2 million people rely on groundwater from karst aquifers in central Texas. Due to the high porosity and permeability of karst landscapes, inputs such as rain, streams, and rivers influence groundwater quality. In this lab students will compare the quality of water from different sources. This lesson involves students testing samples of water from different sources for pollutants and discussing the possible sources of these pollutants.
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Formats: PDF | Word
Strength of Water (pdf)
While this exercise is applicable to multiple topics, as written here, it addresses the power of groundwater to prevent subsidence. Subsidence of the ground surface occurs water filling pore spaces is removed. Water is not compressible, so the overlying sediment and rock is supported. Removal of the water leaves only air space, which is easily compressed by the overburden. This exercise demonstrates how both water and gas react when pressure is applied.
Grade Level: 6-8
Formats: PDF | Word
While this exercise is applicable to multiple topics, as written here, it addresses the power of groundwater to prevent subsidence. Subsidence of the ground surface occurs water filling pore spaces is removed. Water is not compressible, so the overlying sediment and rock is supported. Removal of the water leaves only air space, which is easily compressed by the overburden. This exercise demonstrates how both water and gas react when pressure is applied.
Grade Level: 6-8
Formats: PDF | Word
Water Cycle (pdf)
This lesson demonstrates the basic principles of the water cycle, especially evaporation and condensation.
Grade Level: K-5
Formats: PDF | Word
This lesson demonstrates the basic principles of the water cycle, especially evaporation and condensation.
Grade Level: K-5
Formats: PDF | Word
Water Filtration Competition (pdf)
Millions of people in the US rely solely on groundwater for their drinking water, and nearly everyone relies on groundwater to irrigate farmland. Water is filtered as it flows through the ground, but the type of material through which it flows and the length of flow vary considerably. Even municipal water systems have limited ability to filter water, particularly when the type of contaminant is unknown. This lesson/competition allows the students to design a water filtration system. Students should learn the complexity if purifying water, and therefore the importance of preventing pollution in the first place.
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Formats: PDF | Word
Millions of people in the US rely solely on groundwater for their drinking water, and nearly everyone relies on groundwater to irrigate farmland. Water is filtered as it flows through the ground, but the type of material through which it flows and the length of flow vary considerably. Even municipal water systems have limited ability to filter water, particularly when the type of contaminant is unknown. This lesson/competition allows the students to design a water filtration system. Students should learn the complexity if purifying water, and therefore the importance of preventing pollution in the first place.
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Formats: PDF | Word
Water Pressure (pdf)
Artesian wells and springs flow up from the ground with varying amounts of force. This force is from the pressure of water elsewhere in the aquifer at higher elevations. This demonstration illustrates how the force of water is related to the amount of overlying water.
Grade Level: 6-8
Formats: PDF | Word
Artesian wells and springs flow up from the ground with varying amounts of force. This force is from the pressure of water elsewhere in the aquifer at higher elevations. This demonstration illustrates how the force of water is related to the amount of overlying water.
Grade Level: 6-8
Formats: PDF | Word
