Underground water-Activities

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Activities \| The water down under

The Goundwater Foundation (USA)
- Kids corner – provides information about groundwater and activities to try at home or in the classroom, including 'Edible Earth parfait', 'Awesome aquifers' and 'Aquifer in a cup'. Also has games and puzzles about water.
Bureau of Economic Geology (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
- Aquifer model in a tank – students to construct an aquifer.
- Contaminants in a tank, cleaning up spills – students investigate the impacts of human activities on surface and ground water.
LandLearn (Australia)
- Know your catchments – students identify a catchment, then discuss its importance and the meaning of integrated catchment management.
Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Water (Australia)
- Water: Learn it for life! Unit 2: Drinkable water (lesson 6) – students build a filter to simulate groundwater filtration.
- Water cycles and catchments – provides activities for students to investigate the water cycle and catchments.
- Catchment management – provides activities and background information for students to investigate the management of water catchments.
Environment Protection Authority, Department of Environment and Conservation (New South Wales, Australia)
- Stormwater teaching guide – provides a number of activities about catchments, stormwater and pollution including Investigating pollutants in water and Taking action.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Waterwatch – students analyse water quality and enter the results on a database.
- Salinity and irrigation – students investigate irrigation methods used along the Murray-Darling River and the reasons for increases in salinity along the river.
- Living with salty water – students investigate river water use for irrigation, the increasing salt load in rivers, water desalination and the effects of environmental flows.
Access Excellence (USA)
- Subsurface contamination of groundwater – demonstrates how difficult it is to study subsurface contaminants in underground storage tanks.
Global Education, AusAID (Australia)
- Water source of life: A case study of a water and sanitation project in Uvira – examines a water and sanitation project in Africa, and the work of aid agencies in developing sustainable projects to meet community needs.

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Page updated October 2008.

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