Curriculum Title: Kids Network - What's in Our Water?

Publication date: 1992
Cost: Kit for 30 students, $375.00; tuition and telecommunications, $115.00

Curriculum package includes Teacher's Guide, Kid's Handbook, Software Manual, and software for Apple IIGS. Computer and modem are required. National Geographic Kids Network is a telecommunications-based science curriculum. The water unit emphasizes watershed studies. It is recommended for students in grades 4_6, but would also interest older students. Some units require relatively sophisticated skills which would seem more appropriate for seventh grade and up. Unit support materials include access to Hot Line staff and a "unit scientist," a professional who communicates to the class via electronic mail. Planned sessions require a minimum 15 hours of class time during a six-week scheduled communications calendar. An unusual perspective of this curriculum is the idea that geographical and cultural qualities can influence water use. Extension activities provide opportunities for community studies and enable high quality experiential learning activities on many of the water topics emphasized in the classroom activities. This is also one of few curriculum to provide background for student understanding risk decisions by providing an activity which evaluates the text and concentration of pollutants.

National Geographic Society
Educational Services
PO Box 98018
Washington, DC 20090-8018
Phone: 800-368-2728

This curriculum is appropriate for the following grade levels: