Engineering Encounters: How Can We Store Water During a Drought?

Journal Article | July 2018

This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This issue shares information about a sustainability engineering design problem for fourth graders.

Integrating Technology: Using Science and Technology to Protect Urban Water Sources

Journal Article | August 2018

This column shares how teachers use technology for assessment, student learning, or classroom management. In this article, the authors describe an eighth-grade science lesson in which the teacher discussed with her…

After the Bell: Water harvesting II: Working toward being green

Journal Article | February 2008

As you have read in the previous After the Bell column, water harvesting is a process of diverting and collecting rainwater. One of the main reasons to harvest rainwater is to reduce the demand on local sources of…

Science 101: How can an ocean liner made of steel float on water?

Journal Article | June 2007

Sinking and floating is a subject covered in many science classes, from kindergarten through college physics. Even the audiences of late-night talk shows get to predict whether an object will sink or float in water. And…

"Nor Any Drop to Drink": Students Engineer Solutions for Desalinating Ocean Water

Journal Article | March 2015

Develop and test methods of small-scale desalination.

Human Impact on Water Quality: Conducting Inquiry Activities With Cyber Databases and ICTs

Journal Article | October 2013

Tap into water-quality databases to conduct an authentic inquiry activity.

Technology-Based Learning: Using water studies as the basis for an alternative teaching strategy

Journal Article | August 2001

The Technology-Based Learning in School Science (tBLISS) project was developed with two purposes in mind—to investigate the feasibility of implementing a technology-based science curriculum with a small group of…