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Curricular Stuff
Science in Your Watershed: USGS portal to relevant watershed links.
Water Science for Schools: USGS portal to relevant water links.
Classroom of the Future: Problem-based water quality module.
Where Does My Water Come From? Water Education Foundation site that identifies water sources for any community.
Windows to the Universe: Lesson plans and activities at three levels: beginner (grades K–5), intermediate (grades 6-9), and advanced (grades 9-12). [Click on "Teacher Activities" star in upper-left corner.]
Facing the Future: Scroll down to "Climate Change: Connections and Solutions" (middle and high school versions) (near bottom of long page).
NASA Earth Science
Cindy Schmidt (NASA) presentation about NASA and Earth's Climate System
Cindy Schmidt's My NASA DATA activity
Global Climate Change: NASA's Eyes on the Earth provides information on all aspects of climate change. Examples of what you'll find on the site:
• Earth's vital signs: Values and trends in Arctic sea ice coverage, CO2 levels in the atmosphere, sea level, the ozone hole, and global temperature.
• Interactive visualizations of NASA's Earth-observing missions, sea-level change, and climate change.
• NASA's role in climate-change research, plus explanations of key climate indicators, evidence, causes, effects, uncertainties, and solutions.
Earth Observatory features articles, images, maps, and news about NASA's Earth-observing activities. Browse by topic (atmosphere, land, heat, life, oceans, snow and ice, human presence, remote sensing, biography) or year.
Visible Earth is a large catalog of NASA images and animations of Earth.
My NASA Data (Mentoring and Inquiry using NASA data on Atmospheric and Earth Science for Teachers and Amateurs) contains lesson plans and science projects for grades 4-12.
Contributions From Workshop Participants
Water links from Patricia (activities she uses in class)
4teachers.org: better-than-Webquest online lessons, from Mia; click on TrackStar
Four activities/labs from Roseann:
Fish Kill Mystery (zipped folder; unzip for 5 files based on this NSTA source)
Two links from Nimesh:
Water Conservation Coloring Book (downloads PDF file)
Water Education Materials from the State of California's Dept of Water Resources
Other Classroom Activities and Related Resources
Water: Earth System Perspective (1-page activity)
Water Cycle game: From University of Alaska-Fairbanks (similar to other sources)
Water Cycle game: Station Labels
Gallery of Virtual Topography: Cool faux-3D images help visualize topography
Make a Watershed: From Project WILD, incl "CA Watershed in Your Hands" image
No Point to This Pollution (downloads a PDF file)
What Do Concentrations Mean? (activity handout)
California's Environmental Education Initiative (EEI) Curriculum
Drought: From the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
KQED's State of Thirst: 26-minute documentary about California & water
Sea Ice, Glaciers, and Sea-Level Rise (COSEE West)
Sea-level student sheet for Sea Ice, Glaciers, & SL Rise (written by Ellen)
Sea level rise: Richard's 1-pager on causes of SL change and Mountain View quad
Sea-level rise and ancient coastlines: Ellen's walkthrough from WttU
Watersheds & watershed characteristics: USGS site that uses Google Earth (cool!)
Surf Your Watershed: From the Environmental Protection Agency
Pass the Jug, from the Watercourse/Project WET, isn't freely downloadable.
Farming the Future: African villages activity, from Facing the Future
The Tragedy of the Commons: Classic 1968 work by Garrett Hardin
Santa Clara Valley Water District: For teachers (and students)