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Where Did All the Water Go? A Web Search

Where Did All the Water Go? A Web Search. Shelly Holt Western High School. Web Search. Using the following websites, answer the questions on the following slides http://www.h2ouniversity.org/html/index.html and enter the 6-12 area http://www.snwa.com http://www.lvwash.org/

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Where Did All the Water Go? A Web Search

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  1. Where Did All the Water Go? A Web Search Shelly Holt Western High School

  2. Web Search • Using the following websites, answer the questions on the following slides • http://www.h2ouniversity.org/html/index.html and enter the 6-12 area • http://www.snwa.com • http://www.lvwash.org/ • http://www.usgs.gov/eductation.html • http://epa.gov/nerlesd1/chemistry/pharma/images/drawing.pdf • httP://www.epa.gov/nerleds1/chemistry/pharma/poster-overview.htm • http://mbgnet.mobot.org/fresh/cycle/index.htm • http://www.windows.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/tour_def?link=/earth/Water/water_cycle.html&sw=false&cd=false&fr=f&edu=high • http://www.epa.gov/safewater/kids/behyrdological.html

  3. Web Quest / Web Search • Who is it for? For grade 9-12 Western HS students in my Applied Biology and Chemistry classes and my Principles of Science classes • Purpose: To have students study the importance of water in Las Vegas and to lead them to some answers to questions and possibly more questions for them to study • Assessment: Group discussions, individual journals, Internet quizzes, final quiz / test

  4. Conservation Water cycle Watershed Cool-season grasses Are there others you need to look up? Put them here: Water Vocabulary

  5. What percent of water supply do residential customers use? What are some tips that you could do at home to conserve water? (Given on both H20 University and SNWA) What are the 4 parts of the water cycle? Is there any new water? Explain. What percent of water evaporates back into the atmosphere? Watch a presentation on our watershed and summarize it. Investigate the site for some other fun stuff and describe it H2O University

  6. What are water restrictions in summer? Why not water between sunrise and sunset? What is the Cycle and Soak Sprinkler Irrigation Method? What are cool-season grasses? How could you deal with brown spots in your lawn? Investigate the site for some other “fun stuff” and describe it SNWA

  7. Las Vegas Wash • Where do we get our water from? • Where does the water go after you flush? • What is the Las Vegas Wash and why is it important to our water? • What is urban runoff? • How can you help protect the Las Vegas Wash?

  8. USGS • Find an explanation for the water cycle in another language. Pick one and copy it (under the Water Science for School) • Check out the glossary for your definitions • Find a real-time water flow rate for Las Vegas Wash • How is water used in the United States? • Read Water for Cities and Water for Dryville. Summarize • Check out the Special Topics area and summarize one that is of interest to you

  9. EPA (4 Sites) • What does PPCP stand for? • Why are PPCPs a concern and which ones are the major problems? • “Immeasurable value of the science literature resides in its use to reveal what is knowable.”What should we know about literature forensics?

  10. Where does our water go? How safe is our water? How can you help in water conservation? Go back to h2o university site and read the fast water facts area. Take the quiz Get with your group and write a “story” of a raindrop in the water cycle Go to take the other “quizzes” at http://www.lvwash.org/resources/teach/ quiz.html; http://www.lvwash.org/ resources/teach/wetlands.html and http://ga.water. usgs.gov/edu/sacsc.html “Final” Questions to Answer

  11. What Others Are Doing • Article about LVAISPVA http://ndep.nv.gov/bwqp/youth02.htm • Article on LV Wash volunteers http://www.lvwash.org/help/volunteer/green2005spring.html

  12. Web Sites You Find And More • Now, use some of your vocabulary words and links on the sites you visited to find out more • Be sure to add those web sites to your journals and give a brief overview of what you found • DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? • Is there a line of research your group would like to continue? Present a proposal to your teacher

  13. Where Did All the Water Go? Where Doesn’t It Go!

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