Broken Water Cycle

Students will explore where water exists inside and outside of their school and create a class bar graph of their data.

Students trace water through the community, and understand how filtration, gravity and microbes clean wastewater.  

After building a basic knowledge of the water cycle and water in their schoolyard, students investigate the water budget of a leaf.

Students will know how the water cycle has been altered by humans using local data.  

Student collect data about their schoolyard, neighborhood and town to estimate the amount of water that runs off these places into a nearby stream.

Students will know how to map puddles on their school property and investigate what lives in the puddles.