Water Unit - North Canton City Schools

Sites About Water | Online Activities | Teacher Resources & Lesson Plans

SITES WHERE YOU CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT WATER

Grade 3 - Water - Sections of this interactive textbook are: What is Water? | Solid, Liquid, Gas | Water in the Air. This is a good place to begin learning about water. Learn all about water in solid, liquid, and gaseous forms.After you have read the chapters be sure to click on "Review" and see what you have learned!

Water Science for Schools - contains all sorts of information about water, as well as pictures, data, maps, and an interactive center where you can give opinions and test your water knowledge. From the U.S. Geological Survey.

The Many Adventures of Drippy The Raindrop - follow Drippy the Raindrop's exciting adventures and learn about evaporation, precipitation, and the water cycle.

Water Fun Factory - Fun site from East of Scotland Water. Follow your host Waterman who will show you how important water is to you and how we can look after the environment. Requires the Flash Player plug-in--there is a link to download the Player if you need it.

Water in the City - From the Franklin Institute of Science. Learn about water basics, where it comes from, water supplies, and do some water activities.

Nonpoint Source Kids Page - Visit the MasterBug Theater, follow Darby Duck and the Aquatic Crusaders, or check out other cool sites about protecting our water from the Environmental Protection Agency.

BrainPOP - Water Cycle - learn about the water cycle on this fun site by watching a movie, taking a quiz, trying out an experiment, and more!

What On Earth Do You Know About Water? - A list of quick facts and tips for saving water during everyday activities.

ONLINE ACTIVITIES

The Watershed Game - The Bell Museum of Natural History has developed this game that lets you take on the role of a scientist concerned about water quality. Fun!

Water Treatment Path - Follow a drop of water from the source through the treatment process. Stop at each treatment point and unscramble the words to show where the water is along the treatment path. You may click on each treatment point on the image to see the unscrambled answer and a little information about that treatment point.

Water, Water, Everywhere - Test your knowledge of water and the water cycle with these online Matching, Flashcard, and Concentration activities.

LESSON PLANS & TEACHER RESOURCES

Water Science Experiments - From the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water. GREAT classroom experiments for use in a Water Unit. These are all available as .pdf documents for you to print out and use with your students.

Water Games and Activities - From the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water. Worksheets and activities that you can print out for use in the classroom. Be sure to check out the animated demonstration of the water cycle. Some documents are in .pdf format and some can be printed out directly from the website.

Water, A Never Ending Story - In this module, students will first carry out a number of activities that demonstrate the concepts of evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and soil moisture and runoff. The students will then construct a terrarium as a way to observe the water cycle as a whole. Immediately following this, students will use the Internet to acquire Real Time Data from the Olympic Peninsula which they can then use to describe how the phases of the water cycle look on the Olympic Peninsula.

Water Fun Factory "WaterWise" Activity Packs - A nice collection of .pdf documents that you can print out for classroom use. The collection includes a Student Activity Pack, Curriculum Maps and an Education Pack. From the East of Scotland Water "Water Fun Factory".

Water the Dinosaurs Drank - This is a multi disciplinary unit on water pollution designed to be taught in a K/1 or Early Elementary classroom. It contains content covering Math, Science, Social Studies, and Language Arts.

Water: Where Is It, Where Does It Come From, Where Does It Go? - This project is designed to develop in K-2 students an awareness of water: where it is, where it's from, and where it goes. Students will observe bodies of water in their communities and collect and record information in a database. Also, students will apply concepts of measurement by collecting and charting daily rainfall amounts. Students will use available technology to produce and publish poems or songs about water.

Water: What Is It Used For? - Designed to develop in 3rd and 4th graders an awareness of the many uses of water bodies/ways in their community, including personal uses. Students will record and compute the average use and cost of water in the home. The project will conclude with the students illustrating the ways water is used in their communities.

Creating A Water Cycle - A Lesson Plan for Grades 2-4. OVERVIEW: The water cycle explains the sun heating the earth's surface water so that it evaporates. This vapor gathers in clouds which rise to the cold air. When those clouds become too heavy to float, they release their moisture as precipitation. The precipitation collects in lakes or oceans after siphoning through soil or running down rivers. It then evaporates and repeats the cycle once again.

Water, Water, Everywhere Science Activities - This is a series of experiments about the properties of water and the effects of water pollution. This unit was designed for use in the fourth grade.