Youth in Action: Water Guardians

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Youth in Action: Environmental Charter Middle School

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STEM Career Closeup: Kat Bormann

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Increasing Food Production with Precision Agriculture

Participating in this hands-on lesson, students in grades 6-8 will lead each other through the integration and application of a real-life situation. This lesson provides a PowerPoint and worksheets to help students understand precision agriculture and its use of geographic information systems to help farmers use a sustainable growing method. Students will then integrate their knowledge and skills to create their own mini irrigation system.

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Water Efficiency
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STEM Career Closeup: Adam Navidi

At Home

Youth in Action: Eagle Scout Project with CJ

At Home

Water by Design: Water From Afar

Looking at Earth from space, it definitely looks like a water planet. Although 71% of Earth is composed of water, freshwater is limited and must be managed. Philippe Cousteau meets with Kat Bormann from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Marty Adams from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to learn how freshwater resources are being managed using innovative technological solutions.

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Video

Constructing An Aqueduct - Engineering Design Activity

This design challenge moves your students from passive to active learners through a cross-curricular, hands-on team challenge in direct correlation to real-world issues of water conservation. In this lesson, students, grades 6-8, will learn about aqueducts through a close reading activity. They are then given different scenarios in an engineering design challenge to create an aqueduct to supply freshwater to their city, despite various obstacles.

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Water Efficiency
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Lesson Plan

STEM Career Closeup: Darryl Ramos-Young

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The Anatomy of an Aquifer

This design challenge moves your students from passive to active learners through a cross-curricular, hands-on team challenge in direct correlation to real-world issues of water conservation. Through this lesson, students in grades 6-8 will create a model of an aquifer to understand the structure of aquifers, how aquifers impact our freshwater supply and groundwater in regards to the water cycle.

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Water Quality
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