The following printable lesson plans offer engaging classroom projects that explore different facets of water.
| Grades |
Project |
Description |
| K-3 |
Water Cycle in a Bag |
A fun hands-on activity to help early learners see evidence of the water cycle in their classroom. |
| 1-5 |
My Mini-Desalination Plant |
By constructing a mini desalination plant, students will learn how the water cycle can be used to desalinate water. |
| 4 |
Hold my Water |
Students will understand how plants in the Chihuahuan Desert are able to survive with very little water, because of the soil types. |
| 6-7 |
Conservation Choices |
Students propose and implement water conservation alternatives while recognizing different groups of people may have a different value system. When this understanding is lacking, attempts to resolve the dilemma often meet with resistance.
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| 4-7 |
Take Action |
Students will identify three water management issues in El Paso and come up with action plans in their school or community that may affect future generations in El Paso. |
| 6-12 |
Who Gets It |
Students will explore how Water Managers must take into account different community groups and entities that rely on water. Students will represent the different entities and discuss how water is important to an organization. |
| 7-12 |
Walking for Water |
Students will compare their access to clean water to that of third world countries and explore the difficulty and sociological implications of the unavailability of water in some parts of the world. |
| 9-12 |
Work that Well |
Students will build a well in their classroom to better understand about aquifer volume, regional recharge and allocation of shared water resources. |