A Field Trip in Your Own Classroom!

To request Water Education Resources,
Call: 768-3245 We look forward to working with you!

Presentation Topics

Grade 1 – House of Seasons
By constructing a collage, students observe the role of water in each of the seasons and learn about the three phases of water: solid, liquid, gas.

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Grade 2 – Conservation Connections
Students create and manage their own mini-watershed and witness what happens when a farmer, a bear, a school, and evaporation all use the water.  Growing demand on water resources creates a dilemma of decreasing water supply.

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Grade 3 – The Incredible Journey
With a roll of the die, students simulate the movement of water within the water cycle.  As they travel, students pick up contaminants which they leave behind as they evaporate.

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Grade 4 – Dirty to Drinkable
Students learn about the natural filtering ability of soil by creating their own groundwater models.

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Grade 5 – A Drop in the Bucket/Leaky Faucet
Students learn about the percentage of available fresh water on Earth and that this resource is limited and must be conserved.  Then they measure how much water can be lost in a slow and a fast leaking faucet.  Using a worksheet they calculate how much water these leaks can lose in a day and a year.

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Grade 6 – Water Works
Students create a “water web” to illustrate the interdependence among water users and producers. What would happen to the web if New Mexico experienced a drought?

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Grade 7 – No Point to this Pollution
Students learn about water quality and the cumulative impacts of nonpoint source pollution.

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Grade 8 – Why Share, Why Care?
Students work in groups representing our community’s municipal water users to develop an understanding of the complex issues relating to the competition for drinking water.

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HS Earth Science – Pollution Detective
Students observe how ground water transports pollutants, and simulate ground water testing to discover the source of contamination.

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HS General – Water Mediation
Students learn how conflicts involving water quality and quantity (and other issues) can be resolved through mediation.

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Subject Areas 

• The Water Cycle
• The Aquifer
• Protecting Water Quality
• Conserving Water
• San Juan - Chama Water Project

Age Appropriate Education Material

• Videos
• Posters
• Workbooks
• Coloring Books
• Informational Resouces
  and MUCH MORE!

Water Education = A Sustainable Water Supply

A presentation will be designed to fit the needs and interests of your students!

To request Additional Water Education Resources,
Call: 975-0036

Contact:
Katie Babuska
Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Water Utility
Water Education Coordinator
975-0036
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