Grades 4-8 / 30 Students

Introduce students to stream and river ecosystems through a classroom-based tour of a virtual watershed. Geared toward students in grades 4-8 and designed for teachers who are unable visit a stream with their students. Students will learn about stream ecology, water quality issues, and their own connection to a watershed.

Through a week long series of hands-on TesTab® tablet tests, games, and activities, students will "test" four stations along a river continuum — from the headwaters to the mouth of the river as it enters the estuary — to study how the river changes and how human activities can influence water quality. Includes lecture materials, illustrated handouts, teacher's tips, test procedures, TesTab® reagents, data sheets, and games. TesTab® reagents and test tubes for 30 students in groups.

Grades 5 and up

Designed to introduce concepts of water pollution detection, this versatile outfit includes everything you need for a classroom demonstration: both field test procedures and overhead projection demonstrations.

• 16 water quality factors: alkalinity, ammonia, carbon dioxide, chloride, chlorine, chromium, copper, cyanide, total dissolved solids, hardness, iron, nitrate, pH, phosphate, salinity, and sulfide.
• reagents for 20 to 30 demonstrations of each factor
• procedures can also be performed in 3-cell and 6-cell inert plastic demonstration stages that permit magnification of colorful test reactions with an overhead projector field test procedures and manual
• test report forms
• two handbooks: Our Environment Battles Water Pollution; Investigation Water Problems

Grades 5 and up

Investigate water pollution using safe, simple TesTab reagents. A lightweight, field carrying case houses 12 individual test modules. Each module contains easy-to-read, diagrammed instructions; a color chart; a test factor flashcard; and all the necessary apparatus and non-hazardous TesTabsŪ to perform 100 tests. This complete, economical kit also includes a manual and The Monitor's Handbook.