Celebrate World Water day in your classroom with free downloadable activities from Safe Water Science. You can also learn more about the history of World Water Day, and participate in TAP Project 2009 events in your hometown!

Safe Water Science is a program intended to raise awareness of the water quality issues facing our world. The program consists of a set of four enhancement lessons for middle school science classrooms, church groups, and other informal educational groups.

Each Safe Water Science lesson is designed to address specific National Science Standards. Within the lessons you will find a balance of hands-on activities, cooperative learning exercises, multi-media resources, and research opportunities for your students. Safe Water Science activities use inexpensive, everyday materials.

Optional extensions to the lessons involve social action, such as partnering with a school in a developing country, fund-raising, and other outreach activities.

The Lessons
Each lesson includes a teacher’s guide and a student activity packet. The teacher’s guide includes the National Science Standards addressed by the lesson, specific instructions about the lesson, suggested responses to student questions, and additional resources related to the activity.

Each student activity packet may be copied and distributed to students. Although the lessons were written to be taught as a unit, each lesson can be taught independently.

Lesson 1: Consequences of Drinking Unsafe Water
Activity 1: Students explore water quality issues around the world by researching a waterborne illness and sharing results with the class. Activity 2: Students experience through a hands-on activity how easily illnesses are spread when contaminated water is consumed.

Lesson 2: Treatment of Water
Activity: In an inquiry-based activity, students build and operate a simple filter similar to that used by many local water treatment facilities in the developed world.

Lesson 3: Availability of Clean Water
Activity 1: Students learn about the availability of water in the developing world through a water-hauling activity. Activity 2: Students evaluate their own personal daily use of water.

Lesson 4: Making Water Safe to Drink
Activity 1: In a hands-on activity, students perform the first steps in purifying water. Activity 2: Through a teacher-led activity, students observe how the PUR Purifier of Water product is providing clean, safe drinking water in developing countries and disaster areas around the world. Students learn how the PUR product satisfies all of the steps of water purification. To learn how Arch Chemicals has helped provide clean drinking water around the world since 1927, culminating in the PUR product used in this lesson, click here.

Safe Water Science lessons:

• Address scientific and societal issues related to global safe drinking water problems
• Show a method used to solve these problems
• Help students develop an awareness of safe drinking water issues in our world today
• Address National Science Standards
• Contain hands-on activities, cooperative-learning experiences, multi-media resources, and research opportunities
• Use inexpensive, everyday materials
• Explore social action extensions, allowing students to apply the science they learn to the world in which they live.

Get Involved
For more information on how PUR Purifier of Water is bringing safe drinking water to Africa, as well as disaster relief efforts, please visit Children's Safe Drinking Water. To donate funds for Children's Safe Drinking Water, please visit the website of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

2009 Early Spring Workshop
Join with Safe Water Science as we celebrate World Water Day 2009! Our lessons and activities are the fun way to raise student awareness of the water quality issues facing our planet.

WHEN
Tuesday March 17th
4:00 pm- 6:00 pm

WHERE
Cincinnati State
3520 Central Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45223

REGISTRATION & FEES
Download the Regisration Form and follow the instructions.
Deadline for registration is March 9th.

Downloads
Four lessons are now available as PDF downloads. In addition to the Teacher's Guide and Student Activity Packet, we offer Fun With Walter Waterdrop, a collection of puzzles and games for grade school kids.

Right-click (PC) or option-click (Mac) below to download.

Order Kits

Safe Water Science's lessons and activities use inexpensive, common materials that can be purchased at local grocery and pet supply stores. However, kits containing supplies needed to conduct the lessons with 6 classes of 32 students each can be ordered for only $50. Click here for details on how to order.

Register For Updates
Safe Water Science lessons are updated frequently. Register now, and we will alert you when new content is available for download from this website.

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