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- Conservation: Fresh Water Resources Gr. 5-8
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Students learn the importance of fresh water and how to conserve this valuable resource. Our resource focuses your attention on protecting and respecting our fresh water. Start by understanding what fresh water is by building a water cycle. Find out how fresh water compares in the bigger picture of Earth's water. Build a greenhouse to see firsthand how climate change can affect fresh water. Take what you know about where to find fresh water, and see how that could all change with climate change. Describe how the water supply in a village could become unfit for drinking in a scenario. Understand that people in other countries don't have access to fresh water like we do. Build a drip irrigation system to help conserve water while gardening. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional hands-on activities, graphic organizers, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.
- Conservation: Ocean Water Resources Gr. 5-8
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The oceans contain 97% of the Earth's water, cover 71% of its surface, and hold 50-80% of all life on the planet. Our resource explores the importance of conserving this vast area. Design a board game that illustrates the effects of climate change on Earth's oceans. See how the water cycle explains why most of Earth's salt water is found in the oceans. Find out how climate change will affect ocean currents, resulting in a dramatic change to the farming and fishing industries. Explain how an increase in human population can cause some salt lakes to shrink. Conduct a case study on a container ship that lost several containers in a storm in the north Pacific Ocean. Make your own salt water to represent Earth's oceans and experience what it would be like to visit them. Get tips on what we can do to help protect ocean water. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional hands-on activities, graphic organizers, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.
- Conservation: Waterway Habitat Resources Gr. 5-8
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Students will become aware of aquatic ecosystems facing severe change around the globe. Our resource focuses on recognizing how climate change and human activities are affecting their delicate balances. Become an ecologist and list factors in an aquatic ecosystem as biotic or abiotic. Visit an aquatic ecosystem near your home and learn as much as you can through careful observations. Find out why some aquatic organisms have a hard time adapting to climate change. Explore the effects of human activity on aquatic ecosystems. Spend some time at your local aquarium to be a part of the aquatic ecosystem. Get a sense of what's to come as you look at the rate of extinction of marine species. Find out what we can do to restore aquatic dead zones. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional hands-on activities, graphic organizers, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.
- Water Conservation Big Book Gr. 5-8
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Find out why water is essential for life on Earth with our Water Conservation 3-book BUNDLE. Start by examining the water we drink with Fresh Water Resources. Build a greenhouse to see firsthand how climate change can affect fresh water. Describe how the water supply in a village could become unfit for drinking in a scenario. Next, see how climate change affects the oceans we fish with Ocean Water Resources. See how the water cycle explains why most of Earth's salt water is found in the oceans. Make your own salt water to represent Earth's oceans and experience what it would be like to visit them. Finally, visit the lakes and streams we enjoy with Waterway Habitat Resources. Become an ecologist and list factors in an aquatic ecosystem as biotic or abiotic. Find out why some aquatic organisms have a hard time adapting to climate change. Each concept is paired with hands-on activities. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional graphic organizers, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.
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