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This activity offers learners and their families several ways to raise their awareness together about home water.

Many people get water from a source deep underground, called groundwater.

Water on Earth is in lakes, the ocean, rivers, underground, and frozen glaciers.

In this activity, learners use objects they find on a nature and water to make creative frozen sculptures.

In this activity, learners will engineer a water irrigation system. Learners will create a ditch irrigation system -- or an acequia-- to move water with the help of gravity.

How do scientists measure how clear or murky water in a lake is? How does water clarity (clearness) affect what lives in the lake?

Some aquatic organisms live in open water, while some live in soil at the bottom of a body of water.

In this activity, learners discuss the different salinities of oceans, rivers and estuaries.

Glare from the sun and ripples from the wind can make it hard to see what's below the surface of a body of water.

In this activity, learners explore the concept of density-driven currents (thermohaline circulation) and how these currents are affected by climate change.

In some parts of the world, lakes freeze during winter. In this activity learners will explore water’s unique properties of freezing and melting, and how these relate to density and temperature.

In this activity, learners investigate the different salinity levels of oceans, rivers and estuaries.

In this activity, learners use tonic water to detect ultraviolet (UV) light from the Sun and explore the concept of fluorescence.

In this activity, learners add food coloring to hot and cold water in order to see how fluids at different temperatures move around in convection currents.

Some bugs can walk on the surface of a lake, stream, river, pond or ocean.

This quick demonstration (on page 11 of PDF) allows learners to understand why scientists think water ice could remain frozen in always-dark craters at the poles of the Moon.

When it rains, water can collect on top of and seep into the ground. Water can also run downhill, carrying soil and pollution with it.

In this demonstration, learners observe the effects of density and pressure. A "diver" constructed out of a piece of straw and Blu-Tack will bob inside a bottle filled with water.

The Sacred Cenote at Chichén Itzá is a sink hole, or well, containing groundwater. In this activity, learners create their own cenote using chalk, limestone, acids, and rain water.

Where rainwater goes after the rain stops? And why there are rivers and lakes in some parts of the land but not in others?