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In this activity, learners explore the different salinities of various sources of water by taste-testing.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity (on pages 29-35), learners examine water pollution and filtration.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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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.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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Did you know that the water we use today is the same water found on Earth millions of years ago? The Earth constantly uses and recycles water in a process called the water cycle.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 14 1 to 7 days
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This activity offers learners and their families several ways to raise their awareness together about home water.

free Ages 4 - adult 1 to 7 days
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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.

Over $20 per group Ages 4 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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Learners conduct a "blind" taste-test of several types of enhanced or fitness water drinking water that has commercially added substances like vitamins, sugars, or herbs.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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This activity (located on page 8 of the PDF) introduces learners to the concept of Non-point Source Pollution--what happens when rain washes garbage and other pollutants into rivers and lakes.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 6 - 11 5 to 10 minutes
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Learners explore how the attractive forces between water molecules create surface tension and allow certain objects to float on the surface of water.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity and/or field trip, learners investigate the water currents that aquatic animals create when they breathe, feed, and propel themselves through water.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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Water treatment on a large scale enables the supply of clean drinking water to communities.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 11 - adult 45 to 60 minutes
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Over the course of several days, learners explore the property of water that helps plants move water from roots to leaves or gives paper towels the capacity to soak up water.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 1 to 7 days
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This warm weather activity introduces learners to the impact trees have on blocking the sun's heat and reducing temperature on the Earth's surface.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 14 2 to 4 hours
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In this activity, learners receive a labeled plastic film canister containing a material representing a pollutant (i.e. pencil shavings = a beaver's wood chips).

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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Many people get water from a source deep underground, called groundwater.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 6 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners act as water molecules and travel through parts of the water cycle to discover that it is more complex than just water moving from the ground to the atmosphere.

free Ages 6 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore healthy choices related to the liquids they drink. The importance of water and milk as essential nutrients for a healthy body is the focus of the experience.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 8 45 to 60 minutes
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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.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 11 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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Dig a hole, line it, fill it with fresh water, and you have a water hole: a good place to study colonization.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 18 1 to 12 months
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In this water pollution activity, learners create pond water cultures and investigate the effects of adding chemicals or natural nutrients.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 14 1 to 7 days