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Drinking Water Activities for Students and Teachers

Grade For Students Lesson Plans and Teacher Guides
K-3
  • Thirstin's Wacky Water Adventure (pdf) (8.65 MB) (updated June 2022)
  • Thirstin's water cycle adventure
  • Thirstin's water cycle
  • Interactive water cycle
  • Interactive build your own aquifer
  • Thirstin builds an aquifer
  • Thirstin's ground water movement activity
  • How people get their water
4-8
  • Matching water terms
  • Non-point source pollution
  • Water purification by evaporation and condensation
  • The role of plants in water filtration
  • Interactive word scramble 
  • Interactive matching game 
  • Interactive water filtration
  • Thirstin builds an aquifer
  • Water filtration
  • How people get their water
  • Where does water come from?
  • Word scramble game
  • Fun facts matching game
9-12
  • Build your own watershed (PDF)(2 pp, 28K, About PDF)
  • Question & answer game
  • Interactive question and answer
  • Tracking pollution
  • Building a model aquifer
  • Resource management: protecting your drinking water
  • Decision making – a mock town meeting on a proposed tank farm
  • Water filtration
  • Question & answer game

Download Thirstin's Plant Tour

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Contact Us about Ground Water and Drinking Water to ask a question, provide feedback, or report a problem.
Last updated on June 3, 2024
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