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Lesson 1: Water Resources and Water Footprints (Middle School)
Kai Olson-Sawyer, GRACE Communications Foundation
This lesson helps students understand why Earth is considered the "water planet." Students analyze how much of Earth's water is available for humans to use for life-sustaining purposes, and they ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Virtual Field Trip, Project
Subject: Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water and society, policy, and management, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Water Conservation, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water supply/water resource evaluation
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Lesson 3: The Value of a Water Footprint (High School)
Kai Olson-Sawyer, GRACE Communications Foundation
Session 1 of this lesson begins with a quick activity to get students thinking about their direct and virtual water use. It introduces a few new ideas for virtual water use that may surprise students, including the ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Virtual Field Trip, Project
Subject: Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water and society, policy, and management, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Water Conservation, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water supply/water resource evaluation
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Lesson 3: The Value of a Water Footprint (Middle School)
Kai Olson-Sawyer, GRACE Communications Foundation
Session 1 of this lesson begins with a quick activity to get students thinking about their direct and virtual water use. It introduces a few new ideas for virtual water use that may surprise students, including the ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Virtual Field Trip, Project
Subject: Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water and society, policy, and management, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Water Conservation, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water supply/water resource evaluation
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Lesson 2: My Water Footprint (Middle School)
Kai Olson-Sawyer, GRACE Communications Foundation
This lesson centers on a deeper exploration of the water footprint associated with food. Students learned in Lesson 1 that virtual water, especially as it relates to food, typically makes up the majority of their ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Virtual Field Trip
Subject: Environmental Science:Soils and Agriculture:Food Production and Distribution, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water supply/water resource evaluation, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Water Conservation, Geoscience:Soils, Hydrology:Ground Water:Water and society, policy, and management
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Virtual Field Trip to Laki Fissure
Katherine Kelley, University of Rhode Island
This is a virtual field trip to Iceland's Laki Fissure, which explores the 1783 eruption as a type example of a large historical lava flow eruption that had a significant impact on the local human population ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Virtual Field Trip
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Volcanism, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Volcanoes, Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Volcanology

Virtual Field Trip to Mt. Vesuvius
Katherine Kelley, University of Rhode Island
This is a virtual field trip to Italy's Mt. Vesuvius, which explores the 79AD eruption of the volcano. Students explore the excavated cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, as well as the different types of ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Virtual Field Trip
Subject: Geoscience:Lunar and Planetary Science:Mars:Volcanology/Petrology, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Volcanism, Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Volcanology, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Volcanoes

Lesson 1: Water Resources and Water Footprints (High School)
Kai Olson-Sawyer, GRACE Communications Foundation
This lesson helps students understand why Earth is considered the "water planet." Students analyze how much of Earth's water is available for humans to use for life-sustaining purposes, and they ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Virtual Field Trip, Project
Subject: Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Water Conservation, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water supply/water resource evaluation, Water and society, policy, and management

Lesson 2: My Water Footprint (High School)
Kai Olson-Sawyer, GRACE Communications Foundation
This lesson centers on a deeper exploration of the water footprint associated with food. Students learned in Lesson 1 that virtual water, especially as it relates to food, typically makes up the majority of their ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Soils, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Water Conservation, Environmental Science:Soils and Agriculture:Food Production and Distribution, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water and society, policy, and management, Water supply/water resource evaluation

Renewable Energy Virtual Field Trip
Evan Heeg, University of Wisconsin-Madison
This is a virtual field trip on the subject of renewable energy. The Google Earth slideshow will take you around the world to different key renewable energy sites across the world. Each site will have a quick ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Lab Activity, Classroom Activity
Subject: Environmental Science:Sustainability, Energy:Renewable & Alternative Energy

Lab 2: What's a Watershed?
The lab activity described here was created by Betsy Youngman of Phoenix Country Day School and LuAnn Dahlman of TERC for the EarthLabs project. The hands-on activity in Part A is adapted from similar lessons by ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Virtual Field Trip, Computer Applications
Subject: Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Surface Water
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