MnSTEP Activities
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Safe Water Unit part of MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity could be part of a bigger theme under pollution. The activity could be the water part and the bigger focus could contain all other types of pollution.
Subject: Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Investigating Soil Composition - Soil Soaks Up Water part of MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a classroom quick lab where students explore sand, soil, and water in relation to absorption and permeability.
Subject: Environmental Science:Soils and Agriculture, Geoscience:Hydrology, Soils
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity
How Does Water Get Polluted? part of MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a hands-on modeling of the effects of pollution on our ground and surface water. Students will observe and record their observations as pollution is placed on the ground in their model and it is rained upon.
Subject: Geoscience, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Non-Point Source Pollution
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity, Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Demonstration
Discovering Nature in our Neighborhood: An Investigation of Natural Communities around Our School part of MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
In this unit, students make regular journal entries about a plant/animal/insect community in the natural area around our school and use this to create a Non-fiction Class Book. They also interview family/resources to discover, record and present stories about human relationships with nature from their culture(s).
Subject: Biology:Ecology, Environmental Science, Biology:Diversity
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity