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An assortment of teaching kit items: pH testing strips, test tubes and more

EarthEcho Water Quality Testing

Test the dissolved oxygen, pH, turbidity and temperature of a local waterway around your learning space! Then, upload your test results to an international database to compare your results to others’ and contribute to the citizen scientists interested in keeping our waterways healthy.

close up of child drinking water out of cupped hands

Would You Drink This Water?

Students use their senses to determine the quality of water samples.

collection of photos and information sheets and a box of colorful puffballs

Bioaccumulation: Scale, proportion and quantity

Students will simulate an aquatic food chain to observe how contaminants bioaccumulate and biomagnify.

collection of cups and small paper cutouts arranged on table

Decoding Diatoms

Students will practice microorganism identification using local water samples and apply this understanding to a study of diatoms found in Lake George.

collection of papers and stamps arranged on table

The Nitrogen Cycle

Students will be introduced to the concept of cycling nutrients by taking on the role of a nitrogen atom traveling through the nitrogen cycle.

collection of photos and information sheets next to stuffed fish toys in evidence bags

Becoming Scientists: Synthesizing and Communication (Fish CSI)

Students take on the role of an expert witness in a mock lake sturgeon poaching trial.

Now Open – H2O: Watersheds at Work!