Transcript Where Did All the Water Go?

Where Did All the Water Go?
A Web Search
Shelly Holt
Western High School
Web Search
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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/cgibin/tour_def?link=/earth/Water/water_cycle.html&sw=false&cd=false&fr
=f&edu=high
http://www.epa.gov/safewater/kids/behyrdological.html
Web Quest / Web Search
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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
Water Vocabulary
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Conservation
Water cycle
Watershed
Cool-season grasses
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Are there others you
need to look up? Put
them here:
H2O University
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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?
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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
SNWA
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What are water
restrictions in
summer?
Why not water between
sunrise and sunset?
What is the Cycle and
Soak Sprinkler
Irrigation Method?
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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
Las Vegas Wash
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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?
USGS
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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
EPA (4 Sites)
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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?
“Final” Questions to Answer
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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
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Go to take the other
“quizzes” at
http://www.lvwash.org/reso
urces/teach/ quiz.html;
http://www.lvwash.org/
resources/teach/wetlands.
html and http://ga.water.
usgs.gov/edu/sacsc.html
What Others Are Doing
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Article about LVAISPVA
http://ndep.nv.gov/bwqp/
youth02.htm
Article on LV Wash
volunteers
http://www.lvwash.org/he
lp/volunteer/green2005sp
ring.html
Web Sites You Find And More
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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
Where Did All the Water Go?
Where Doesn’t It Go!