Educational Videos With Hands-on Activities

When you think about it, education is bits of information you pick up as you go along.  And at the time, each item doesn't always seem to be a big deal.  But some an, "aha" moment occurs and makes that information pleasing to know.

Along with these videos, take the time and look through the other information on this website.  Hopefully, you will have several "Oh I get it" and "aha" moments.

The Turbidity Test

A lesson with a hands-on activity for students to explore what is turbidity, its effect, compare the turbidity of muddy and clear water; and investigate ways to reduce erosion that leads to turbidity in rivers.

Access handout with instructions, questions, glossary, and turbidity circle scale Here.

​Adaptation of The Big Muddy in Discover a Watershed; The Missouri provided to Shawnee County Conservation District by Kansas Association of Conservation and Environmental Education.

Properties of Water

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This lesson explores a few of the properties of water.  Cohesion, adhesion, surface tension and capillary action.  The lesson relates those properties of water and how it is used in a plant to transport water throughout the plant. The lesson explains how some of these properties allow a ship to float on water.  Or, how water expands when frozen allowing it to float on water.

The lesson includes a handout with instructions to repeat later if a person likes, glossary, and an enlarged image of "How Grass Makes Food For Growth."

Adaptation of the H2Olympics from Project WET.​ 

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     From Soil To The Breakfast Table

Soil, good quality soil, is essential to growing our food.  This video relates the soil that grows the corn to producing corn flakes you would eat for breakfast.  Shown in the video is corn being harvested from a field.  A clump of soil being looked at for its quality.  A variety of food grown due to good soil.  And a short discussion of conservation practices that build the quality of the soil.