Water on the Move

Complete 5E (Engage, Explore, Explain, Evaluate, Ellaborate) learning cycle including teacher directions, student handouts, answer keys, etc. Individual components are also listed below to download separately.

• Groundwater Dynamics 5E Lesson Plan

ENGAGE- 

• Cloud Cartoon Strip & "Think of the Images that Follow" Slides
• Where's the Water? Handout

EXPLORE- In this phase of the learning cycle, students first review the water cycle, then they go through a watershed modeling activity where they explore concepts such as water table, saturated and unsaturated zones, unconfined aquifers.

• Water Cycle Magnetic Tray Activity (Middle and High School Level)
• How Much Water is there on Earth?- teacher background 
• The World's Water- poster (Source: ga.water.usgs/earthhowmuch.html)
• Modeling Watersheds Activity

EXPLAIN- As students move through the aquifer modeling activity above, they can complete the handout titled “What Flows Beneath” to explain what is happening at each step. If a Groundwater Model is available, it can be used to recap concepts about groundwater. 

• What Flows Beneath- student handout and instructions

EVALUATE- The online quiz below can serve as an alternative summative assessment. Students can take the quiz several times and take a screenshot to show the teacher when they get over a certain amount of time. The Groundwater Learning Check is a more traditional assessment.

• How Well Do you Know Groundwater?- online quiz from PBS Learning Media
• Groundwater Learning Check- summative quiz/ test with answer key

ELABORATE- A great, WhoDunnit activity using groundwater concepts (part of the ProjectWet materials). The full lesson description can be found at: https://web.uri.edu/smile/files/Lesson_Plan_A_Grave_Mistake.pdf. Students can read about how hydrologists locate groundwater here.

• A Grave Mistake- instructions and activity from Project Wet