This game is just like Trivial Pursuit, except all questions are related to
water (suitable for 3rd-5th grades).
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Like the popular game of Pictionary, Puddle Pictures is a card game of
water-related words. Play consists of teams of two or more people who
alternate drawing and guessing the word on the card. Can you draw the
word Recharge?! Borrow this game for play in your classroom (challenging
for both children and adults).
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Just like the game show, the class is broken into teams that try to see how
many water questions they can answer (suitable for 3rd-5th grade).
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A 10-minute video. Tad wants to earn money, so he becomes the "Answer Toad."
He and Ethel team up to answer people’s questions about drinking water and
conservation... at 25 cents per question. Viewers learn fascinating facts about
water (suitable for 1st-2nd grades).
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In this video, Ethel and TadPole follow a water drop from its source to the tap to
learn about how safe drinking water is delivered to people’s homes (suitable for
1st-2nd grades).
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A 30-minute video from the Children’s Television Workshop. Teenage host Stephanie
Yu examines the science behind water: the water cycle, the properties of water,
water conservation, wastewater treatment, and water quality testing (suitable for
3rd-6th grades).
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This excellent 20-minute live action video and computer graphics, gives an
understanding of how water moves through the hydrologic cycle. Discover how
natural events affect evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff, and
storage. With increasing demand for usable fresh water, learn why the use and
misuse of this precious earth resource is a global environmental concern (suitable
for 4th grade to adult).
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This 60-minute public television program hosted by James Earl Jones explores the
major issues involving our insatiable thirst for water, and provides a global
perspective on problems involving water quantity. The video is broken up into
four major segments: California Water Merchants, Australian Water Wasters,
Mexican Water Rationing, and New Zealand Water and Wildlife (suitable for 4th
grade to adult).
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A 10-minute pre-test is given before watching a 20-minute video that answers all
the questions on the quiz. Students learn just how much water everyday things
use (suitable for 3rd-5th grades).
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A 16-minute video produced by the AWWA (American Water Works Association).
This video demonstrates the many techniques for conserving water inside and
outside the home, plus many interesting facts about home water use (suitable
for 3rd-5th grades).
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A 28-minute video produced by the AWWA. Join Professor Water and his silly
sidekick as they take viewers from Niagara Falls to the South Pole to Death
Valley to the O.K. Corral. You will pick up a world of information on water
cycles, water treatment, and water conservation (suitable for 4th-6th grades).
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This four part PBS video series provides insight into the history of the
politics of water. Each video is about one hour long and can been seen
individually or as part of the series. The first three videos are based
on Marc Reisner’s book, Cadillac Desert, and examine how water created the
modern American West. The fourth video is based on the book Last Oasis by
Sandra Postel and looks at water demands and the need for water conservation
(suitable for middle school to adult).
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