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This paper discusses an award winning water conservation curriculum called Exploring Planet Water that has been adopted as required curriculum for one local school district and used in another school district in Eugene, Oregon. The Exploring Planet Water program has worked with the Eugene Water & Electric Board (EWEB) in successfully meeting EWEB's water conservation education goals. The goal of this curriculum is to specify that cycles are a basic scientific concept that sutdents must learn to apply to many different situations, such as the connection between the larger hydrologic cycle and a student's every day life. The natural water cycle is expanded upon in such a way that students are invited to apply the cycle concept to link themselves to the natural water cycle. Using tactile demonstration methods, the students create a mini-hydrologic cycle using water in a sealed bag with added heat from a microwave oven. Then they transfer the water from "storage" in the bag through a representation of a chlorination and filtration filter, into a cup "distribution reservoir" which is then used to water a plant (representing "use"). The excess water is poured into a representation of a sanitation filter, and then poured back into the bag to demonstrate putting the "cleaned" water back into storage. This is just one example of accurate science and tactile demonstrations presented in Exploring Planet Water. Includes tables.

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Vol. - No.

Published:

01/01/2002

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15

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1 file , 1 MB