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Discover Floods Educators Guide |
60 pages • photos • illustrations
This valuable 60-page resource helps educators teach students about both the risks
and benefits of flooding through a series of engaging, hands-on activities. Acknowledging
the different roles that floods play in both natural and urban communities, the
book helps young people gain a global understanding of this common--and sometimes
dangerous--natural phenomena that affects hundreds of millions of people around
the world each year. Complementing its text are photographs that shed light on the
aftermath of floods, as well as numerous illustrations to facilitate learning. Students
will apply a number of problem-solving techniques to such relevant issues as how
to protect yourself and your family should you live in a flood-prone area.
Developed in partnership with the World Meteorological Organization.
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WOW! The Wonders of Wetlands |
330 pages • b&w photos • illustrations • charts • glossary
• resources
K-12 teachers will enjoy using this guide; it features 70 pages of background material
followed by more than 40 cross-referenced activities. Every page is thoughtfully
laid out with core text, great photographs, side bars, maps, and illustrations to
make information clear and quick to use. Activities are organized into five sections:
wetlands definitions, wetlands plants and animals, water quality and supply issues,
soils, and people. The appendix offers instructions for planning and developing
a schoolyard wetland habitat.
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Conserve Water |
307 pages • b&w photos • illustrations • charts • glossary
• resources
The Conserve Water Educators Guide provides teachers of middle school and high school
students with the ins and outs of water conservation. Background information offers
a hydrologic primer; past, present, and future water conservation issues; and case
studies ranging from a rancher in west Texas to an ice cream factory in Massachusetts.
These real-life examples encourage students to use critical thinking skills to examine
different sides of each situation.
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Healthy Water, Healthy People - Water Quality Educators
Guide |
220 pages • photos • illustrations • appendix • glossary
• cross-references •resources • index
This activity guide is for educators of students in grades 6 through university
level. The purpose of this Guide is to raise the awareness and understanding of
water quality topics and issues and their relationship to personal, public, and
environmental health. Healthy Water, Healthy People will help educators address
science standards through interactive activities that interpret water quality concepts
and promote diverse learning styles, with foundations in the scientific method.
This guide contains twenty-five original activities that link priority water quality
topics to real-life experiences of educators and students.
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Healthy Water, Healthy People - Field Monitoring Guide |
100 pages • photos • illustrations • cross references
• glossary • index • resources
This technical reference manual is an excellent companion text that supports all
of the Healthy Water, Healthy People publications and materials. The purpose of
this manual is to serve as a technical reference for the Healthy Water, Healthy
People Water Quality Educators Guide and the Healthy Water, Healthy People Testing
Kits, yielding in-depth information about ten water quality parameters. The manual
answers questions about water quality testing using technical overviews, data interpretation
guidelines, case studies, chemical formulas, testing kit activities, laboratory
demonstrations, and much more.
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The Watershed Manager Educators Guide |
193 pages • photos • illustrations • charts and graphs
• maps • appendix • index
This 193-page guide contains 19 science-based, multi-disciplinary activities that
teach what a watershed is, how it works, and why we must all consider ourselves
watershed managers. An extensive background section introduces readers to fundamental
watershed concepts. Each activity adapts to your local watershed, contains e-links
for further internet research, and is correlated to the National Standards for Science.
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