Water on Earth, H2O Lesson PowerPoint

• Ice Caps / Glaciers 1.5 cups
• Groundwater .5 cups
• Freshwater Lakes .25 table spoons
• Salt Lakes .15 table spoons
• Atmosphere 3 drops
• Rivers .5 drops
• Useable water available for humans
after pollution and contamination =.001
drop
Oceans (all water left in bucket)
Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

• RED SLIDE: These are notes that are very
important and should be recorded in your
science journal.

-Nice neat notes that are legible and use indentations
when appropriate.
-Example of indent.
-Skip a line between topics
-Don’t skip pages
-Make visuals clear and well drawn.

• RED SLIDE: These are notes that are very
important and should be recorded in your
science journal.
• BLACK SLIDE: Pay attention, follow
directions, complete projects as described
and answer required questions neatly.

• http://sciencepowerpoint.com/

Area of Focus: Where’s our water?Area of Focus: Where’s our water?

• Earth is known as the blue planet as it
has a blue glow from space.

• Earth is known as the blue planet as it
has a blue glow from space.
– This blue is from all of the water on our
planet.

• Water on Earth Available Sheet

• Why should we study water?
–Bullet List.
–3-5 Sentence minimum paragraph

• Activity! Water Usage.
– Create a list of all the ways humans use
water.

• Please narrow down the class list to 6
Categories (Work in Table Groups)

The six ways humans use waterThe six ways humans use water
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--
--
--
--
--

Survival / HealthSurvival / Health

Household.Household.

Recreational.Recreational.

Industrial.Industrial.

Transportation.Transportation.

Agricultural.Agricultural.

• You can now complete this question.

Agriculture Transportation Recreation

Survival / Health

Survival / Health Household

Survival / Health Household Industrial

Agriculture Transportation
Survival / Health Household Industrial
Learn more about
water use at…
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/

• What % of the earth is covered with water?

• What % of the earth is covered with
water?

water?
Ice Caps are
Water

water?
Ice Caps are
Water
Clouds
are Water

water?
Close to 71% of the earth is
covered with water
Ice Caps are
Water
Clouds
are Water

water?
Close to 71% of the earth is
covered with water

Demonstration
-Where’s the water?
- Teacher fills 5 gallon bucket which represents
all of the water on earth.

• The bucket represents
–Oceans
–Salt Lakes
–Rivers
–Ice Caps / Glaciers
–Atmosphere
–Groundwater
–Freshwater Lakes
–Potable Water (Useable water available for
humans after pollution and contamination)

• Rivers .5 drops
after pollution and contamination =

• Rivers .5 drops
after pollution and contamination =.001 drop

• Rivers .5 drops
after pollution and contamination =.001 drop
Learn more about water on earth at….
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/earthwherewater.html

• 97% of all water on Earth is found in the
ocean.

• Can humans drink saltwater, or put it on
crops?

• Answer! Humans cannot drink saltwater and
survive.

• Answer! Humans cannot drink saltwater and
survive.
– Saltwater dehydrates you faster than no water at
all. It also kills plants and contaminates the soil.

• Which of the plants in this study was given
the most saltwater?

Earth’s Water SupplyEarth’s Water Supply
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--

Oceans 97.3% - Salt (Cannot drink orOceans 97.3% - Salt (Cannot drink or
use for Agriculture)use for Agriculture) 

• Oceans 97.3% - Salt (Cannot drink or
use for Agriculture) 
Agriculture: Production of food
and goods from farming.

Ice Caps 2.19% (Locked)Ice Caps 2.19% (Locked) 

• Lets pretend that everyone in this room now
owns 5 million dollars?
– How much of this money are you willing to invest in
the Iceberg project?
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opChLhLMFmU

• Why can’t we just go north and grab some
icebergs and bring them south?

Groundwater 0.5% (Most is too Deep)Groundwater 0.5% (Most is too Deep) 

• Video Link (Optional) Groundwater, The
Hidden Source of Life
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iht9WBBXepA

Atmosphere 0.001% (Can’t Obtain)Atmosphere 0.001% (Can’t Obtain) 

Soil Moisture 0.005% (Can’t Obtain)Soil Moisture 0.005% (Can’t Obtain) 

Inland Lakes 0.018% (Available) :Inland Lakes 0.018% (Available) : 

Rivers 0.000096% (Available)Rivers 0.000096% (Available) 

• Please create a pie graph of the data just
recorded in your journal.
– Use a petri-dish to help create your circle.
– Use color, provide a key.

Ocean
Ice Caps
Underground
Soil Moisture
Atmosphere
Rivers

• Has anyone in the class left the country?
– Where have you been?

Warning – A part of the world that you have never
been to will be shown. This is a part of the world that
you don’t see everyday on T.V. Please close your
eyes if you get emotional.

• Raise your hand if you have played on
something like this?

• Raise your hand if you have owned something
like this at some point.

• Raise your hand if you have ever used a
flush toilet?

• Raise your hand if you have ever used a
dishwasher?

• Raise your hand if you own a gaming
system of some type?

• Raise your hand if you have ever eaten
something like this?

• Raise your hand if you have shopped in a
mall?

• Raise your hand if you have ever taken a
hot shower or bath?

• Raise your hand if you have ever been on
a slip n’ slide.

• Raise your hand if you have ever been
tubing.

• Raise your hand if you ever been to a
water park?

• Raise your hand if you have ever been in a
water fight?

• How about a… food fight?

• Raise your hand if you have ever had a
brother or sister die of starvation?

• Raise your hand if you have ever had to fight
through a starving crowd for a meal ration.

• Raise your hand if you have ever been
ruled by a warlord.

• Or if you have ever been in a civil war?

• Have you ever carried a starving child.

• From 1990 -2000 more than 100 million
children died from illness and starvation.

• Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger.
175 Men, women, and children will die during
this lesson.

• For the price of one missile, a school full of
hungry children could eat lunch every day for
5 years.

• Water is incredibly important?

• Without it, you cannot grow food.

• Drought also kills livestock.

• These are the areas of the world that
struggle everyday from drought and famine.

• Whatever your issues are, you’ll probably be
alive tomorrow.

alive tomorrow.
– 2000 other kids won’t.

alive tomorrow.
– 2000 other kids won’t. You are one of the
luckiest kids on Earth because you are sitting in a
classroom right now with a water fountain that’s
just down the hall.

• Video Link! (Optional) UNICEF, Drought
and Famine (2007)
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAEa66reTyg&f

Learn more about the earths water crisis at…
http://water.org/water-crisis/water-facts/water/

• Parts of Somalia are controlled by
warlords with militias.

• Many places in the world are burdened by
civil war and fighting.

• Activity! Reading the article about the war
over the well in Somalia.
– Please answer 3 of the 7 questions in detail
after reading the article.

• A kitchen in rural Africa.

All of the
household
water

Gathered from a dirty watering
hole ½ hours walk

Bowl is also used to collect goats
urine for washing kitchen tools

• Indoor plumbing is very rare.
– Most people in this world must carry water to
their dwelling.

• Activity! (Optional) Class must carry several
5 gallon buckets filled with water outside
simulating a walk from the well to home.
– Do not carry on your head / bearing the weight
on your neck.
– Those young girls and boys have been doing it
since they could walk and have built-up
strength. (Your neck will break!)

• Question: How would your water use
change if you had to collect and carry every
drop?

• Video Link! Drought and Famine in Africa.
– Observe how people in the video rely on water.
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOpURGlAsgY

• Activity! Guess the picture beneath the
boxes. Please raise your hand when you
think you know it.
– You only get one guess.

• “AYE” Advance Your Exploration ELA and
Literacy Opportunity Worksheet
– Visit some of the many provided links or..
– Articles can be found at (w/ membership to
NABT and NSTA)
• http
://www.nabt.org/websites/institution/index.php?p=1
• http://learningcenter.nsta.org/browse_journals.aspx?journ
Please visit at least one of the
“learn more” educational links
provided in this unit and
complete this worksheet

• “AYE” Advance Your Exploration ELA and
Literacy Opportunity Worksheet
– Visit some of the many provided links or..
– Articles can be found at (w/ membership to and
NSTA)
• http://www.sciencedaily.com/
• http://www.sciencemag.org/
• http://learningcenter.nsta.org/browse_journals.aspx?
journal=tst

Areas of Focus within the Water Molecule Unit:
Locations of Water on the Planet, Importance of Water, Groundwater,
Groundwater Pollution, The Water Molecule, Properties of Water,
Polarity, Cohesion, Adhesion, Capillary Action, High Specific Heat,
Water has a Neutral pH, Lower Density of Ice. Water is the Universal
Solvent, Mixtures
Full unit can be found at…
http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Water_Molecule_Unit.html

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Physical-Science-Curriculum-59http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Life-http://www.teacherspayte

• Please visit the links below to learn more
about each of the units in this curriculum
– These units take me about four years to complete
with my students in grades 5-10.
Earth Science Units Extended Tour Link and Curriculum Guide
Geology Topics Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Geology_Unit.html
Astronomy Topics Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Astronomy_Unit.html
Weather and Climate Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Weather_Climate_Unit.html
Soil Science, Weathering, More http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Soil_and_Glaciers_Unit.html
Water Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Water_Molecule_Unit.html
Rivers Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/River_and_Water_Quality_Unit.html
= Easier = More Difficult = Most Difficult
5th
– 7th
grade 6th
– 8th
grade 8th
– 10th
grade

Physical Science Units Extended Tour Link and Curriculum Guide
Science Skills Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Science_Introduction_Lab_Safety_Metric_Methods.
html
Motion and Machines Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Newtons_Laws_Motion_Machines_Unit.html
Matter, Energy, Envs. Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Energy_Topics_Unit.html
Atoms and Periodic Table Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Atoms_Periodic_Table_of_Elements_Unit.html
Life Science Units Extended Tour Link and Curriculum Guide
Human Body / Health Topics
http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Human_Body_Systems_and_Health_Topics_Unit.html
DNA and Genetics Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/DNA_Genetics_Unit.html
Cell Biology Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Cellular_Biology_Unit.html
Infectious Diseases Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Infectious_Diseases_Unit.html
Taxonomy and Classification Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Taxonomy_Classification_Unit.html
Evolution / Natural Selection Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Evolution_Natural_Selection_Unit.html
Botany Topics Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Plant_Botany_Unit.html
Ecology Feeding Levels Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Ecology_Feeding_Levels_Unit.htm
Ecology Interactions Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Ecology_Interactions_Unit.html
Ecology Abiotic Factors Unit http://sciencepowerpoint.com/Ecology_Abiotic_Factors_Unit.html

• The entire four year curriculum can be found
at... http://sciencepowerpoint.com/ Please feel
free to contact me with any questions you may
have. Thank you for your interest in this
curriculum.
Sincerely,
Ryan Murphy M.Ed

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