Aquifer Curriculum – Grades 3-6

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Teachers, We invite you to try out some or all of the 27 aquifer lessons designed for students grades 3-6. Aquifer Unit 3-6 SVRPA –  The Spokane Valley Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer (SVRPA) is the focus of this aquifer unit.  Lessons are aligned with WA and ID state standards and cover the SVRPA Formation, Social Issues & History, the Water Cycle, Water Systems, Water Quality and Water Quantity. 

Lessons and Activities include:

SVRP Aquifer Formation

  • Ice Age Floods
  • Properties of Earth Materials
  • How Much Will it Hold?
  • Permeability of Three Earth Materials
  • Get the Ground Water Picture.
  • Making an Aquifer System Model
  • The Edible Aquifer

Water Cycle

  • The Life of a Water Droplet
  • The Incredible Journey
  • Branching Out

 Water Systems

  • Water Town USA
  • Adventures in the Aquifer/Waterworks
  • Spokane’s Wet-Work Shuffle (adapted from Project WET)
  • Amazing Water
  • Pinwheel Power
  • Hydropower Plant
  • What Happens When I flush the Toilet?
  • Where Does My Drinking Water Come From?

 SVRP Aquifer Social Issues & History

  • Spokane Falls Water Works
  • Investigation:  Occupations
  • Water Rights
  • Aqua Duck’s New Sidekick
  • The History of Our Aquifer

 Water Quantity

  • Conserving Water in Your Life
  • We can all Help Save Our Aquifer!

  Water Quality

  • Keeping Our Aquifer Clean
  • How Do the Pollutants get Down There?
  • Our Future Drinking Water

The Spokane Aquifer Joint Board would like to express their gratitude to the many talented professionals who have contributed to the development, writing, review, editing, and field testing of the “Spokane Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer Curriculum Unit”.  We hope the “Spokane Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer Curriculum Unit” will be found as a valuable curriculum which is tied into Washington State Academic standards and Idaho State standards.  We would like to especially thank the West Valley School District for their support of this process.