Lessons

We’ve created some helpful lessons to help you use the tools in your kit in different ways. All of our lessons have an indoor and outdoor component, so no matter where you are you can learn about water quality! We’ve separated our lessons into three main categories:

• Water Rangers equipment: Learn to use the different tools in your Education testkit. These lessons explore how you can use your tools to create connections to the real world, and how to use your tools in indoor and outdoor settings.
  • Investigating road salts with conductivity
  • Water chemistry: acids, bases, pH and alkalinity
  • Dissolved oxygen and algae blooms
  • Exploring water clarity with a DIY Secchi disk
  • Data to the rescue: Visualizing water quality in your community
• Ocean, water, climate: Learn more about how our freshwater systems are connected to the global ocean. Every lesson includes a section that connects it to the global ocean. We’ve also designed lessons to help learner’s understanding of the ocean.
  • Water dynamics: temperature, salinity and density
  • Ocean activism and you!
• Tackling eco-anxiety: We worked with Brila to deliver activities that help students talk about eco-anxiety. Action has been shown to reduce eco-anxiety, we therefore provide suggestions of projects they can do. These activities are coming soon!

You can choose to do the lessons in succession over multiple days, at a convenient time, or teach either part as a standalone lesson. The activities are presented as small group activities to facilitate and encourage active participation. At the bottom of each lesson, you will find a section on connections to the news and a glossary of terms.