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WOW
The Water on Wheels (WOW) program offers free lessons for Kindergarten through high school, public and private schools, and informational presentations at community events within Adams, Benton, Franklin, Grant and Walla Walla Counties.
WOW lessons include lively hands-on demonstrations, educational games, and grade-level materials to help give students a better understanding of water and soil conservation.
Teachers are able to have just one lesson presented, or a series of conservation-minded lessons presented over a period of time.
All WOW lessons are aligned with Washington State Science Essential Academic Learning Requirements.
All lessons can easily be integrated into lesson plans and curriculum. All lessons are age and grade level appropriate.
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| Rock Exploration: (K-1st) Students explore various rocks as they compare size, color, and texture while looking for evidence of life. Students also gain an understanding of the importance of rocks in soil formation. Students create their own pet rocks! |
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| Eating Soil: (K Only) Learn how rocks play an important part in creating soil. Create an edible model of a soil profile, using pudding, cereal, and gummy worms to learn how soil layers interact. |
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| Exploring Habitats: (1st - 2nd) Learn about habitats and their importance to all living things. Discover how water and soil play an important part in every habitat. Students create their own animal habitats. |
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| Soil Magic: (2nd) Students are introduced to the three types of soil (sand, silt, and clay). Discover how water helps the earth make soil. Explore how water moves through soil, and how the layers of soil help clean groundwater naturally. |
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| Water Everywhere: (1st-2nd) Identify where water can be found in our everyday lives. Describe the importance of water for humans, animals, and plants. Discover why water is an important resource to conserve and protect. |
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| Amazing Soils: (3rd - 5th) Differentiate between the three soil types based on particle size and permeability through a hands-on experiment. Discover how soil is made. Discuss the properties of soil and their importance to farmers and community members. |
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| Does Watershed?: (3rd-5th) Discover what a watershed is and how we affect the watersheds we live in. Students create individual paper watersheds and learn about the impacts of land planning, pollutants, and floods. |
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| Water in our World: (4th-5th) Explore the water cycle, including precipitation, evaporation, and condensation, through classroom participation and a rain shower at the end! Students create their own terrarium to see the water cycle at work. |
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| Water Journey: (4th-5th) Learn how water circulates through the water cycle as it changes between a liquid, a solid, and a gas. Students will act as a water molecule as they chart a path through the water cycle, giving them a better understanding of seepage, evaporation, storage, and gravity. |
| Enviroscape Model: (4th-7th) Demonstrate point and non-point sources of pollution, including garbage, refuse, waste water sludge, and sediment, through a large-scale hands-on watershed model. |
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| Transporting Energy: (3rd - 5th) Discover the importance of renewable power to Eastern Washington. Learn about solar, wind and hydroelectric power. Students create their own model of a hydroelectric dam. |
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| Do You Drink It? (6th - 12th) Examine the importance of groundwater locally and regionally. Discover how people obtain drinking water from wells by making a model of an aquifer. Students will then conduct a tasting experiment from different water sources. |
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| Groundwater Flow Model: (8th - 12th) Observe how rocks and soil act as a filter to help prevent pollutants from leaching into groundwater and reaching our drinking water. An operating model of an aquifer shows a vertical slice of the earth's surface. In addition, students will investigate best management practices to protect groundwater. |
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| Stream Ecology and Water Quality Monitoring: (6th - 12th) Investigate a local water body and discover the living aquatic macro invertebrates acting as indicators of water quality and stream health. In addition, students will monitor temperature, turbidity, nitrate, pH and dissolved oxygen levels. This lesson can either be conducted as a field trip or brought into the classroom. This lesson is only offered the spring. (2 hours or 2 class periods) |
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| Top Soil Tour: (8th - 12th) Analyze the relationship between physical and chemical properties of soil, including texture, pH, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. This lesson includes both lecture and provided laboratory experiment. (2 class periods) |
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For more information, and to sign your class up, please contact:
Kara Kaelber
Education and Outreach Specialist
Franklin Conservation District
1620 Rd. 44 N
Pasco, WA 99301
(509) 545-8546 ext. 3 |
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Water on Wheels
Sponsored By:
  
 
With additonal Contributions from:
Franklin County Wheat Growers
Adams County Wheat Growers
Shaver Transporation |
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