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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, learners investigate and compare the rate of drying in different conditions.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 6 - 11 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners investigate the different salinity levels of oceans, rivers and estuaries.

Over $20 per group Ages 8 - adult 1 to 7 days
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In this activity, learners explore sublimation by conducting experiments with dry ice.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 11 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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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 outdoor, sunny day activity, learners experiment with paper leaf models to discover how some desert plants conserve water.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore how air warms when it condenses water vapor or makes clouds.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 18 5 to 10 minutes
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This activity uses LEGO® bricks to represent atoms bonding into molecules and crystals. The lesson plan is for a 2.5 hour workshop (or four 45-minute classes).

Over $20 per group Ages 11 - adult 2 to 4 hours
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In this activity, learners observe the water cycle in action! Water vapor in a tumbler condenses on chilled aluminum foil — producing the liquid form of water familiar to us as rain and dew.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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This activity was designed for blind learners, but all types of learners can use it to investigate heterogeneous and homogeneous mixtures and solutions, identify the differences, and explore the conce

$1 - $5 per student Ages 11 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners conduct an experiment to explore how water flows up from a tree's roots to its leafy crown.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 14 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity on page 4 of the PDF (Water in Our World), learners conduct some quick and easy tests to determine the differences between water and other liquids that look very similar to water.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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What causes frost to form on the outside of a cold container? In this activity, learners discover that liquid water can change states and freeze to become ice.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this chemistry activity (page 3 of the PDF), learners will learn about crystals by growing their very own.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 14 1 to 7 days
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Learners make a refrigerator that works without electricity. The pot-in-pot refrigerator works by evaporation: a layer of sand is placed between two terra cotta pots and thoroughly soaked with water.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 11 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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Cool off in the heat with this project! Learners use simple materials to build a fan that runs on a motor.

$5 - $10 per student Ages 8 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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Learners draw comic-style pictures to show the water cycle. From a starting picture, one learner draws what happens to the water in the next panel, then passes the comic strip to another learner.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners conduct three experiments to examine temperature, the different stages of the water cycle, and how convection creates wind.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 11 45 to 60 minutes
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Learners build models to learn about the special cells and structures that plants use to move water from their roots up through the stems and leaves.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 11 1 to 7 days
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In this activity, learners calculate the number of milliliters of water a nearby tree transpires per day.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 14 - 18 4 to 24 hours