WATER WISE EDUCATORS

Below are excellent resources to enhance any lesson, unit or activity around water and water conservation.  As educators you are essential in creating the ripple effect for Utah to be water wise.

6th - 8th Grade Resources

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• Make Your Own Hydropower
  Make Your Own Hydropower provides students with a hands-on exploration of generating electricity with water power. This is a thematic unit geared toward seventh through ninth grade students.

Lessons

• Earth Systems Lesson Plans
  A list of lesson focused on Earth Systems and water.

• How much water does your family use?
  This lesson may fit well in an environmental education unit on conservation. Students will examine the amount of water their family uses on a typical Saturday, record the information in a Excel template, and analyze and compare their water usage to that of others in the class.

• Journey through the Bear River
  A watershed-specific activity guide for grades 6-12. The material in this activity guide will help foster a deeper understanding of the watershed, its physical properties, who lives in it, and how human activities affect different components of the watershed. Part 1 contains introductory material. Part 2 includes a description of the components of a watershed, an overview of the Bear River watershed, a more detailed narrative describing the Bear River from its headwaters to its outlet, and a discussion of several water resource management issues in the watershed. art 3 includes four activities for grades 6-12, which are designed to help educators teach students about the Bear River Watershed.

• Matter of State:  (States of Matter)
  This lesson will help students understand that particle movement changes as a substance changes from one phase to another phase.

• Models of the Water Cycle (ScienceNetLinks) 6-8
  Students will develop an understanding of the water cycle by building and evaluating two different physical models.

• Oceans (Students obtain a better perception of earth's oceans water cycle.) 6-8
  This lesson will help students obtain a better perception of earth's oceans and to understand earth's water cycle.

• Seventh Grade Core Experiment: Structure of Matter
  This activity demonstrates that water can exist in different phases, and encourages students to manipulate the rate and temperature of its phase changes.

• Structure and Classification of organisms living in the water
  Structure and Classification of organisms living in the water.

• There Is Something in the Water
  In this lesson students will learn about this monumental issue facing the United States while viewing it from an economic perspective.

• Water Chemistry Activities: Sticky Water
  Students will experiment with the adhesive and cohesive properties of water.