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Cleaning with Dirt
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Learners build a filter from old soda bottles and dirt. They create polluted water, and pour it through their filter to clean it.

Chemical Footprint—Family Activity
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In this multi-part activity learners examine non-point water pollution.
Mercury in the Environment
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In this environmental science lesson, learners will examine the dangers of mercury and how humans contribute to growing mercury emissions on Earth.

Plugged in to CO2
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In this activity, learners investigate various appliances and electronics, discovering how much energy each uses and how much carbon dioxide (CO2) is released to produce that energy.

Do Cities Affect the Weather?
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In this activity, learners explore clouds and how they form.

A Scientific Cleanup
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This is a comprehensive lesson plan on page 85 for a group cleanup trip to a local beach, lake or stream. Learners keep track of the types and amounts of trash picked up and analyze this information.

Rock Bottoms
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Learners add acid rain (nitric acid) to two cups that represent lakes. One cup contains limestone gravel and the other contains granite gravel.

I Am/Who Has: A Litter Matching Game
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In this game, learners match descriptions of marine debris (shoes, batteries, paper towels, etc.) to images of these items.

Oil Spill Solutions
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In this activity, learners explore how environmental engineers might approach solving the problem of an oil spill.

Who Dirtied The Water?
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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).
Hazardous Chemicals in Your Neighborhood
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In this environmental science lesson, learners will examine hazardous chemicals and their effects on human health and the environment.

The Carbon Cycle: Carbon Tracker
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In this activity, learners play NOAA's Carbon Tracker game and discover ways to keep track of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the world.

Water Walk
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Learners take a field trip along a local body of water and conduct a visual survey to discover information about local land use and water quality.

Human Impact on Estuaries: A Terrible Spill in Grand Bay
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In this activity, learners make a model of a pollution spill that occurred at Bangs Lake in Mississippi and measure water quality parameters in their model.

Whale Cart
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In this activity, learners interact with whale artifacts such as replicas of skulls, bones, teeth, and baleen (hair-like plates that form a feeding filter).

Population Study Game: Oh, Deer!
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In this activity, learners model a population of deer and see how the number of deer changes over time.

Monitoring Amphibians
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In this field study, learners discover how to collect data in the field and how their efforts can help certain animals, specifically, amphibians.

Water Treatment
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Water treatment on a large scale enables the supply of clean drinking water to communities.

The Dead Zone: A Marine Horror Story
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In this environmental science and data analysis activity, learners work in groups to track a Dead Zone (decreased dissolved oxygen content of a body of water) using water quality data from the Nutrien

Amphipods: More than Mud
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In this data analysis and environmental science activity, learners examine the effects of pollution on amphipods using data from the Chesapeake Ecotox Research Program.