In this lesson, students will identitfy several forms of acid precipitation. They will list effects of acid precipitaiton and explain the actions that cause the damage. Students will define "buffering" and explain how environmental factors can act as buffers.
Students will examine geologic maps in order to understand how water shapes the land and is stored within the land - in part of the Grand Canyon.
Students willl create and review the parts and purposes of an aquifer.
This online article describes aquifers as a source of freshwater located below the surface of the earth. The movement of water into and out of aquifers is also discussed.
In this lab students will learn about the water cycle. Included in this resource is a lab for students to build a physical model of the hydrologic, or water, cycle and an animation to supplement learning.
Students model catastrophic flooding and observe the shapes created by the flooding.
Explore water pollution and its impact on ocean life in aquatic dead zones.
GeoInquiries are designed to be fast and easy-to-use instructional resources that incorporate advanced web mapping technology. Each 15-minute activity in a collection is intended to be presented by the instructor from a single computer/projector classroom arrangement. No installation, fees, or logins are necessary to use these materials and software.
In this unit students will learn why it is important to study drought.
In this lesson, students are introduced to the global circulation patterns of the atmosphere and the oceans, and investigate how those circulation patterns might influence their local region. Students use computer models to test predictions of ocean currents.
Students will investigate how different soils have different capacities for retaining rainwater. They will also explain how and why a river can flood in a particular area.
In this lesson, students will understand and demonstrate the concept of permeability. Students will apply the concept of permeability to different types of ground materials.
Students build an aquifer model to look at point source and non-point source pollution.
In this lesson, students will understand the effects of soils and rocks on filtering groundwater. Students will expand their concept of the water cycle to include groundwater, transpiration, aquifers, and the water table and consider sources of contamination in the water cycle.
In this activity, students use a model to better understand the impact that humans might have on water supplies.
In this activity, students test the pH of a water sample and then dig into the nearby sediment and test the pH of a water sample from there.
In this lesson, students will learn the difference between confining layers and aquifers in a basic water table aquifer scenario. They will also contour groundwater elevation and petroleum product thickness data.
In this lesson, students will learn how to to draw ground water contours and will understand how ground water flow may be predicted. This lesson will help students better understand the interrelated nature of ground water and surface water flow.
This quiz assesses student knowledge of the water cycle.
This quiz tests student knowledge on soil as it relates to agriculture and flood prediction.
Students will use a simple mathematical model to estimate the vulnerability of a small town's water supply.