Module #4: "Living Sustainably: Energy, Water, the Environment and Us"

Please keep in mind that these module titles are just brainstorms. Anyway this is where we can go into water treatment/delivery, energy (alternative resources should be emphasized), and enviromental engineering (e.g. how humans live in the environment and alter it to fit their needs (sometimes with unforseen consequences!)).

Links to activities

1. Water Cycle activities: http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?BenchmarkID=11&DocID=8
2. Renewable Energy Sources: http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?BenchmarkID=8&DocID=26
3. Converting Energy http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?BenchmarkID=4&DocID=153 This particular activity has links to numerous energy-related activities that span the breadth of the modules presented here (as such it should perhaps go in the first module as a springboard).
4. Technology and oil: http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?BenchmarkID=8&DocID=455
5. Harnessing Solar Energy: http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?Grade=6-8&BenchmarkID=8&DocID...
6. Sanitation and Human Health: http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?Grade=6-8&BenchmarkID=8&DocID...
7. Water Purification: http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?BenchmarkID=11&DocID=275
8. Water quality activity: see the attached activity using vernier probes to analyse disolved solids in water (ESC-13-wq_dissolved_solids.pdf).