TAPWater Kit Box Educational Materials
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Videos
Down The Drain: An investigative news format is used to teach students about the water cycle, water pollution and water treatment (Grades 4-7).
The Hydrologic Cycle: Water in Motion: This video describes how water moves through the hydrologic cycle and depicts how natural events affect evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff and storage (Grades 5-7).
Professor Water: Fantastic Facts About H2O: Lots of good information on the water cycle, water pollution, and many other aspects of H2O (Suitable for all grades).
Science Court - Water Cycle: This video uses courtroom drama, animation and humor to teach students about the water cycle, condensation, evaporation and the states of matter (Suitable for all grades).
The Journey of the Blob: A boy dumps a green blob he has concocted into a nearby stream. By tracking the blob, the video teaches students about the water cycle and raises many questions about environmental responsibility and the consequences of our decisions. May generate some good classroom discussion (Grades 2-5).
The Streamkeeper: Bill Nye the Science Guy takes students on one of his zany journeys while showing them how to investigate, inventory and monitor their streams (Grades 4-7).
Exploring an Aquifer: This video provides a first-hand look at an aquifer currently being used by the Lehigh County Authority (near Allentown) to provide water to its customers. An underwater camera takes us down through a well and into the aquifer, showing students what a real aquifer looks like (Suitable for all grades).
CD ROMS
Science Court - Water Cycle: A companion piece to the Science Court - Water Cycle Video, this CD allows students to work in groups to analyze and discuss scientific concepts, perform hands-on experiments, work cooperatively with others and express their opinions based on the evidence (Suitable for all grades).
Science Seekers: Actual scientists guide students on a quest to locate the source of water contamination in the fictitious town of Fairview. Students learn to analyze and discuss scientific concepts, perform hands-on experiments and work cooperatively with others (Grades 4-7).
Explore Your Watershed: Chad A. Shad takes students on the tour of his watershed by swimming downstream through a forest, an agricultural area, a suburban area and a city. Students learn how the water quality in the stream varies depending on the land-use (Grades 2-4).
Waters to the Sea: Students can learn a lot about watersheds as they visit five land-use sites on each river journey they take on this CD (Grades 3-6).
Water Down the Drain: Alex the Frog takes students on a hip-hop musical journey as he desperately tries to find some clean water to live in. Emphasizes the point that when we pollute our water, we affect many living things (Suitable for all grades).
Activity Books
The Story of Drinking Water: Teaches students about the water cycle, including where water is found and how water is treated and distributed to the public (Grades 4-6).
The Story of Drinking Water, Teacher’s Guide: A companion piece to The Story of Drinking Water, this book contains background information, classroom activities and reproducible activity sheets for students on various water topics (Grades 4-6).
Splash Activities Book: Plenty of pictures for students to color along with a variety of water-related word and number games (Grades 2-3).
Water Magic – Water Activities for Students & Teachers: Contains 23 educational activities that each address a specific topic related to water (Grades 2-3)
Water Fun for You – Coloring Book: Contains 16 pages of water-related scenes to color (Grades 2-3).
Miscellaneous Books
Water Conservation: A comprehensive book on exploring the issue of water conservation, analyzing it, considering the options and taking action. A good motivational tool to get students to conserve water (Grades 4-7).
Water Dance: A poetic text with accompanying paintings that depict the various stages of the water cycle; a great tool for the English or Art Class (Suitable for all grades).
Water Testing Kit
Just Add Water: Allows students to perform water tests for pH, copper, chlorine, hardness and more. Also contains a computer diskette that contains a mini-classroom curriculum on water. Contains enough testing materials for 50 students (Grades 3-6).
Posters
(Suitable for all grades)
The Water Cycle: Reverses to Water Careers
A Water System: Reverses to Use Water Wisely
A Treatment Plant: Reverses to Groundwater Systems
Key to Macroinvertebrate Life: Reverses to Stream Study Guide
Do Your Share, Care About Water: Reverses to Color Me a Watershed activity
Watersheds – Where We Live: Reverses to What is a Watershed activity
Water – The Resource That Gets Used & Used & Used for Everything: Reverses to Water Distribution Demonstration
Water Droplet Figure
TAPWater Tom: Can be used as a prize or giveaway (Grades 2-4).
Book Covers
(Suitable for all grades)
Water Conservation
Water Facts
How Much Do You Know About Water
The Water Cycle
Tips for Conservation
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