Earth Day Every Day Water Conservation Activity 5-ESS2-2

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Looking for fun and easy Earth Day Activities? Add this one to your list! This water conservation activity is the perfect tool to teach students about the importance of conserving our most precious resource: water. This interactive and engaging lesson plan is designed to provide a fun and memorable learning experience for students, using just water as a model to demonstrate how water is distributed throughout the earth.

This resource includes an activity that involves measuring out specific amounts of blue-colored water to represent the amount of water in various reservoirs, such as the ocean, groundwater, lakes, swamps, and rivers. This hands-on activity helps students visualize and understand the vast amounts of water present in each of these reservoirs, and how each one plays a critical role in sustaining life on earth.

This Earth Day Water Conservation Activity is perfect for educators, parents, and anyone who wants to teach children about the importance of water conservation. This resource is easy to use and can be adapted to fit a wide range of grade levels and learning styles. It includes step-by-step instructions, materials lists, follow up questions and extension activities to help ensure that students achieve a thorough understanding of the concepts covered.

This is an excellent activity for Earth Day – it will help students become informed and responsible stewards of the environment. They will learn how to conserve water in their daily lives, and understand the impact of their actions on the world around them.

What does this resource include?

• Materials list for each activity, so you can easily gather everything you need before you get started
• Background information for students to prepare them to understand the activity
• Easy preparation which will save you time
• Expected results for each activity so you don’t have to do the activity ahead of time
• Student instructions as printable worksheets, with places for students to record responses as they work through the experiment. This is especially helpful for students that may lose their place if they need to flip to a separate lab report.
• Data recording sheets for the control group and the experimental groups

What will students do?

Students will measure blue-colored water in different amounts to represent water found in the ocean, ice, groundwater, lakes, swamps and rivers. Then, they will create bar graph to represent the distribution of water. A pie graph is also included.

Who is this resource for?

• Classroom Teachers
• Homeschool Parents
• Homeschool Co-op Teachers
• Christian School Teachers
• Enrichment Teachers
• Special Education Teachers

This product supports the following Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS):

• 5-ESS2-1
• 5-LS1-1

Looking for more Earth Day Activities for Middle School? Check out my other products:

• Earth’s Spheres Activity
• Solid Waste Management Activity
• Earth Day Reading Comprehension and Crossword Puzzle
• Earth Day Bundle

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