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Clean Water: Is It Drinkable?
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In this activity, learners simulate nature's water filtration system by devising a system that will filter out both visible and invisible pollutants from water.

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

Low-Tech Water Filter for High-Impact Clean
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In this activity, learners consider the water features they might enjoy at a community park--a pond, brook, water playground (or "sprayground"), or pool--and what happens to the water over time.

Water Tower Challenge
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In this activity, learners explore how engineers work to solve the challenges of a society, such as delivering safe drinking water.

From Here to There
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In this water activity, learners discover ways to move water across the water table.

Heat Capacity: Can't Take the Heat?
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Why is ocean water sometimes the warmest when the average daily air temperature starts to drop? In this activity, learners explore the differing heat capacities of water and air using real data.

Make a Wire Critter That Can Walk on Water
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In this activity, learners make water-walking critters using thin wire, and then test how many paper clips these critters can carry without sinking.

Can Nutrients in Water Cause Harm?
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In this water pollution activity, learners create pond water cultures and investigate the effects of adding chemicals or natural nutrients.

Filtration Investigation
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In this activity, learners explore how engineering has developed various means to remove impurities from water.

Pressing Pressure
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In this activity, learners compare water pressure at different depths. Learners discover that water pressure increases with depth.

Solar Water Heater
Learners work in teams to design and build solar water heating devices that mimic those used in residences to capture energy in the form of solar radiation and convert it to thermal energy.

Salt 'n Lighter
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In this activity, learners discover that as the salinity of water increases, the density increases as well. Learners prove this by attempting to float fresh eggs in saltwater and freshwater.
Making Rivers
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In this outdoor water activity, learners explore how to change the direction of water flow. Learners make puddles in dirt or use existing puddles and sticks to make water flow.

Giving Water the Treatment
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In this ecology activity (page 8 of the PDF), learners explore how to filter contaminated water using a variety of materials.

Rain Machine (Solar Still)
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In this activity, learners work in groups to build simple solar stills filled with salt water. After the stills are complete, learners observe what happens when they place the stills in the sun.

Water Clean-up
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This is an activity (located on page 3 of the PDF under Water Clean-up Activity) about the use of reduction agents to decontaminate ground water.

Forces at the Nanoscale: Nano Properties of Everyday Plants
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This is an activity (located on page 3 of PDF under Nasturtium Leaves Activity) about surface tension.

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

Model Well
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In this quick activity about pollutants and groundwater (page 2 of PDF under Water Clean-up Activity), learners build a model well with a toilet paper tube.

Build A Bee Bath
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In this activity, learners use found natural materials to create a water haven for bees and other insects.