Water

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Types of Water
Acid Rain, Conservation & Protection, Drought, Pollution and Purification
Avalanches, Floods & Flooding, Precipitation, Snow & Ice
Bays, Canals & Waterways, Fjords, Geysers, Glaciers, Icebergs, Lakes and Reservoirs, Rivers, Wetlands
Mars, The Moon

Water
Water	Archimedes' Principle: K-12 TLC Guide. Bubbles: K-12 TLC Guide. Drinking Water Fluoridation: K-12 TLC Guide. The Hydrosphere: K-12 TLC Guide. Pascal's Principle: K-12 TLC Guide. Texas Water: K-12 TLC Guide. Agre, Peter C.: K-12 TLC Guide. Cavendish, Henry: K-12 TLC Guide. Australia Broadcasting Corporation: Why Things Look Darker When Wet. BBC: Earth-like Water Found on Comet. Old Star Surounded by a Steam Bath. Water Map Shows Billions At Risk of Water Insecurity. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: How Long Can We Survive Without Food or Water? The Chemistry of Water, The University of Arizona . A First Look at Planet Earth, Geologylink. Fresh Waters of the Earth, University of California, San Diego. How Stuff Works: How Polymer Crystals Absorb So Much Water. How Fish Rise and Sink in Water. Why Cotton Is More Absorbent Than Nylon. The Hydrologic Cycle, University of Illinois. Indiana Waterways: K-12 TLC Guide. NASA: 10/09/2009: Lunar Exploration: K-12 TLC Guide. Earth's Water Could Have Come From Comets. Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission. National Public Radio: Accessing Water in the Desert (audio: 5:29). America's Obsession with Bottled Water. California Water Feuds (audio: 2:54). The Dead Sea Is Dropping (audio: 5:30). Freeze Records & Global Warming (audio: 3:30). Newly Discovered Planet Could Be A Watery World. Obscured By War, Water Crisis Looms In Yemen. Popping a Water Balloon in Near-Zero Gravity. Raining Fish in Ethiopia (audio: 2:40). Rights to the Sea of Galilee (audio: 5:15). Scientists Keep Water Liquid Far Below Zero Degrees. Turkish Plans to Export Water (audio: 3:04). Water Balloons Without the Balloons. Water in Schools: School Law: K-12 TLC Guide. School Lunches: K-12 TLC Guide. Free Water in California School Cafeterias is the Law. Water in School Cafeterias. Water Rights and the Law (audio: 5:50). Water Scarcity & Urban Development (audio: 7:30). Water Sculpture. New Zealand Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research. *Pulse of the Planet: Hydropower, Part 1: Putting Water to Work. Hydropower, Part 2: Learning from Beavers. A Right to Water, BBC. Salmon Preservation Study in Environmental Conflict, CyberLearning. Science Update (audio: 1:25), American Association for the Advancement of Science: Car Exhaust Steam and Cold Days: 02/27/01. Moving Water without Gravity or Pumps: 3/02/01. United States Geological Survey: Local Offices for Water Resources. Water Resources of the United States. Water, Snow and Ice, University of Alaska. Water Resources of Indiana, U.S. Geological Survey. The Weather Notebook, Mount Washington Observatory: 40 Below. Cryoseisms. Mud Season*.
Water Conservation & Protection	Eagles to the Nest, Indiana University. Ground Water Protection Council. Kentucky Water Watch, State of Kentucky. National Geographic: Water Footprint Calculator. National Public Radio: Buying Water (audio: 5:38). Water, Water, Everywhere, But Not Enough to Waste. Stream Corridor Restoration, United States Department of Agriculture. Surface Water Runoff Modeling, The Shodor Education Foundation, Inc. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Acid Rain. Clean Water Action Plan. Drinking Water Glossary. R/V Lake Guardian. Surf Your Watershed. Visualizing The Great Lakes. Watershed Information Network. Your River and Its Watershed. World Water Day (March 22): Official Web Site. National Public Radio: Blessed with Water on World Water Day.
Water Drought	North Texas Drought: K-12 TLC Guide. *CNN: 01/25/01: Drought, Devastation Do Not Dim Afghani Pride. Droughts Aggravated by Dust in the Wind, NASA. National Public Radio: 2000 U.S. Drought: Drought Conditions Worsen in Southeast U.S. (audio: 5:30). U.S. Drought Impacts Cotton Crop (audio: 1:23). 2009: Mideast Water Crisis Brings Misery, Uncertainty. Amazon Droughts. The Weather Notebook, Mount Washington Observatory: Cloud Seeding. West Virginia State Archive*.
Water Pollution & Purification	Factory Farming: K-12 TLC Guide. Fertilizers: K-12 TLC Guide. Acid Mine Drainage: Berkeley Seismological Laboratory . The Brownfields and Land Revitalization Technology Support Center. Bucknell University. Center for Education Technologies, Wheeling Jesuit University. Office of Surface Mining, U.S. Department of the Interior. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. U.S. Geological Survey. Valdosta State University. Virginia Tech. West Virginia Water Research Institute. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: 5 Chemical Threats to the Great Lakes. Chemical Free Water Purifiers. Kentucky Bourbon Spill: K-12 TLC Guide. Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities. National Public Radio: Chlorine Substitutes in Water May Have Risks. Court Limits Clean Water Act (audio: 5:00). EPA Attempts to Cover DDT in Ocean (audio: 3:39). EPA Standards for Arsenic in Water (audio: 3:30). Hogs and Manure Lagoons (audio: 6:00). MTBE Gasoline Additive: Ban on MTBE (audio: 3:30). Santa Monica Sues Companies (audio: 4:45). Pet Pollution ( audio: 3:30). Pharmaceutical Pollution (audio: 8:15). President Clinton Orders Pollution Control (audio: 3:00). Sludge Pollutes Drinking Water (audio: 4:00). Science Update (audio: 1:25), American Association for the Advancement of Science: Filtering Rain Runoff Pollutants with Wood (8/22/01). Water Filtration and Fluoride (5/24/01). Southern California Public Radio: Water Supply Toxins in 31 U.S. Cities.
Water Bays	K-12 TLC Guide to Bays of the United States. Biology Online. Encyclopedia Britannica. Wikipedia. K-12 TLC Guides to: Botany Bay: K-12 TLC Guide. Hudson Bay: K-12 TLC Guide. San Francisco Bay: K-12 TLC Guide.
Water Canals & Waterways	Friends of the Delaware Canal. *Captain Kate*, Carolyn Reeder.
Water Fjords	K-12 TLC Guide to Fjords of the United States. Australian National University. Encyclopedia.com. From Mountain to Fjord, Sogn og Fjordane University College. Montana State University. Wikipedia. Fjords of Greenland: K-12 TLC Guide. Fjords of Norway: K-12 TLC Guide. Kenai Fjords National Park: K-12 TLC Guide.
Water Geysers	Geyser Observation and Study Association. Hanksville, UT. Museum of Unnatural Mystery. Thinkquest. U.S. Geological Survey. University of California, Santa Barbara. University of Michigan. University of North Dakota. WyoJones. Geysers of Yellowstone National Park: Yellowstone National Park: K-12 TLC Guide. National Public Radio (audio): Steamboat Geyser (Yellowstone) Erupts: 5/3/00 (3:30). Old Faithful WebCam, National Park Service. Geyser Valley, Kamchatka Peninsula. Geysir in Haukadalur.
Water Glaciers	Cryosphere: K-12 TLC Guide. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: Glacier Time-Lapse Images Reveal Epochal Change. Formation: BBC. Glacier Bay. How Stuff Works. Montana State University. Thinkquest. Glacial Drift: Britannica. Michigan Center for Geographic Information. U.S. Geological Survey. University of South Florida. Glaciers, National Snow and Ice Data Center. National Geographic: New Zealand Earthquake Spurs Giant Glacier Collapse. National Public Radio: Kilimanjaro Glaciers May Vanish in a Few Decades. The Search for Glacier Gold. A Walk on Thick Ice in Patagonia. Researchers Document Shrinking of Greenland's Glaciers, Spaceart.com. Space Radar Images of Snow, Ice, Glaciers, NASA. Types of Glaciers: National Snow and Ice Data Center. U.S. Geological Survey.
Water Icebergs	Antarctica: K-12 TLC Guide. The Arctic: K-12 TLC Guide. Cryosphere: K-12 TLC Guide. *The Titanic: K-12 TLC Guide. National Public Radio: Renegade Iceberg (audio: 2:45). Swimming with Icebergs*.
Water Lakes & Reservoirs	Diablo Lake, WA: K-12 TLC Guide. Texas Aquifers: K-12 TLC Guide. Texas Lakes: K-12 TLC Guide. Deutsche Welle: The Environmental Downside to Desalinated Water. Turning Methane from Rwanda's Lake Kivu Into Power. The Great Lakes: Lake Erie: New York: K-12 TLC Guide. Ohio: K-12 TLC Guide. Pennsylvania: K-12 TLC Guide. Fact Monster. National Public Radio (audio: 3:00). Lake Michigan: K-12 TLC Guide. Asian Carp: K-12 TLC Guide. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: 5 Chemical Threats to the Great Lakes. Great Lakes Environmental Atlas & Resource Book, Canadian Government. Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Hydrology, The Great Lakes Information Network. National Public Radio: *The Edmund Fitzgerald* (audio: 2:58). Great Lakes Dropping Water Level (audio: 6:00). Lake Erie Storm Surge (audio: 3:00). Teaching & Learning about Canada. The Weather Notebook, Mount Washington Observatory: Lake Superior Seiches. Indiana State Reservoirs: K-12 TLC Guide. Lake and Pond Habitats, eNature. Lake Effect Snow: Veteran's Day Storm: 11/9-14/1996 - A Case Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Weather Notebook, Mount Washington Observatory. Lake Baikal: K-12 TLC Guide. Lake Itasca: K-12 TLC Guide. Lake Kivu: Rwanda: K-12 TLC Guide. Lake Pepin: K-12 TLC Guide. Lake St. Clair: K-12 TLC Guide. Lake Tahoe: K-12 TLC Guide. Lake Washington: K-12 TLC Guide. Lake Vostok: K-12 TLC Guide. Leech Lake: K-12 TLC Guide. NASA Today: Africa's Disappearing Lake Chad. Evidence of Martian Land of Lakes: 12/4/00. National Public Radio (audio): Crawfish Crowd AZ Lakes & Rivers: 9/23/00 (2:45). The Dead Sea Is Dropping: 1/9/00 (5:30). Winter on Lake Champlain: 2/27/00 (2:59). Rivers & Lakes of Canada, Teaching & Learning about Canada. The Weather Notebook, Mount Washington Observatory: Seiches: When Lakes Slosh. Wood-Land-Lakes Conservation Area, IN**.
Water Snow & Ice	Frostbite: K-12 TLC Guide. Ice Fog: K-12 TLC Guide. Lake Effect Snow: K-12 TLC Guide. Precipitation: K-12 TLC Guide. Winter Storms: K-12 TLC Guide. Avalanches: History Channel. 01/11/1962: Avalanche Engulfs Nine Villages, Killing Four Thousand, BBC. American Association of Avalanche Professionals. Canadian Avalanche Rescue Dog Association. Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC). National Public Radio. Snow and Avalanche Center. SportScotland Avalanche Information Service. *The Weather Notebook, Mount Washington Observatory: The Slowest Avalanche. Extreme Ice: National Public Radio. PBS. How Stuff Works: Why Bridges Ice before the Rest of the Road. Why Snow Is White. NASA Today: Dr. Alberto Behar, Antarctic Explorer. Validation of Satellite Snow Cover Maps in North America and Norway (pdf). National Public Radio: Antarctic Ice May Melt, But Not for Millennia. Avalanche Season in Alaska (audio: 4:30). First Snowflake Photographs from 1885. Grinding Out a Winning Edge for Olympic Skiers. Melting Monuments Celebrate the Momentary. Musical Instruments Made of Ice (audio: 4:40). Rocks Striking a Frozen Lake in Winter. The Snowstorm of the Century (audio: 5:00). The Sound of Snow (audio: 4:00). Warming Planet Can Mean More Snow. On-This-Day: 01/07/1996: Historic Blizzard Hits Eastern U.S.: 100+ Die. Precipitation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Freezing Rain. Rain and Hail. Sleet. Snow. Pulse of the Planet: Global Changes Increasing Snowfalls. Science Update (audio: 1:25), American Association for the Advancement of Science: The Residue of Freezing Ice: 05/15/2001. Tully, NY Ice Harvest: K-12 TLC Guide. Water, Snow and Ice, University of Alaska. The Weather Notebook, Mount Washington Observatory: Alberta Clipper. Antarctic Ground Ice. Giant Snowflakes. Hail, Sleet, Snow. The High Frequency Noise of a Snowfall. High Tech Snow Plows. Ice Farming. Sea Ice in Antarctica. Snow: Nature's Fertilizer. Thin Arctic Ice. Winter Storms, Federal Emergency Management Administration. Wyoming Snow Accumulation and Ablation* , National Weather Service. "Not only the Eskimos", Liesel Mueller, Writer's Almanac.
Water Types of Water	Free Drinking Water. General Information on Drinking Water, Glacier International.
Water	Young Adult: *Captain Kate, Carolyn Reeder. Adult: All My Rivers Are Gone, Katie Lee. The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water, Charles Fishman: Marketplace. National Public Radio*.
	K-12 TLC Teachable Moments 11/12: Antoine Lavoisier, John Dalton and Atomic Theory.
	Ocean Teacher Resources. River Teacher Resources. Kindergarten: The Ocean: A Watery World, Kathleen Ware, Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. Grades K-6: Monsoon Mud Madness, Linda F. Malanson, Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. Grades K-12: Small Stream Ecosystem (pdf 650K), Lonnie Nelson, Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources. Grades 1-2: Water Cycle to Precipitation, Gina H. Chung, The University of Illinois. Grade 3: Researching Natural Disasters, Ms Rebecca Diane Williams, Benjamin Franklin Elementary, Vigo County Schools, IN. Solids, Liquids & Gases. Weather, Paige Laverty, The University of Illinois: Evaporation/Humidity. Rain Gauge. The Water Cycle. Grades 3-8: Water: A Never Ending Story, Live From Earth & Mars. Grades 5-6: Plastic Bag Ice Cream, TeachNet. Grades 6-8: Avalanche!, Discovery School. Grades 7-8: Effects Of Water On Plant Growth, Mr. Frank Hacker, Turkey Run School Jr./Sr. High School, Turkey Run Community Schools, IN. Grade 8: Wetland Field Trips, Pat Delaney Indian Mills Memorial School. Other: Water, Weather, and the World, Lucia Rafala, Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. The Weather Unit, The University of Illinois: Condensation Evaporation Hey, You Stole My Rain! Precipitation The Rain Game The Water Cycle

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This guide last edited 01/15/2012
This guide last revised 06/12/2010