Groundwater Education

Groundwater Study Guide
& Activity Sheets

Below you will find links to a series of .pdf files that you can download and print to make a comprehensive set of activities for 6th - 9th grade students. To view these documents, you will need to have Adobe's Acrobat Reader. You can download it from the Adobe web site at http://www.adobe.com.

The entire Groundwater Study Guide:

Groundwater Wisconsin's Buried Treasure Study Guide (PDF, 2,094 KB) May take a long time to download.
Activity Guide, 32 Pages plus worksheets

Or, you can download the Groundwater Study Guide in sections.
Advisable for slower computers and Internet connections.

  1. Introduction and Glossary
    4 Pages (PDF, 438 KB)
  2. The Water Cycle-Round and Round it Goes
    activity and worksheets, 5 Pages (PDF, 359 KB)
  3. How Groundwater Moves
    activity and worksheet, 4 pages (PDF, 234 KB)
  4. Well, Well, Well
    activity and worksheet, 5 Pages (PDF, 360 KB)
  5. Wisconsin's Major Aquifers
    activity and worksheets, 6 pages (PDF, 584 KB)
  6. Plume of Contamination
    activity and worksheet, 4 pages (PDF, 262 KB)
  7. Where Does it Come From?...Where Does it Go?
    activity, 2 pages (PDF, 175 KB)
  8. How Septic Sytems Work
    activity and worksheets, 7 pages (PDF, 605 KB)
  9. Caution: This Product May be Hazardous to Your Health
    activity and worksheets, 11 pages (PDF, 578 KB)
  10. It'll Go With the Flow...
    activity and worksheets, 4 pages (PDF, 283 KB)
  11. What if Water Cost as Much as Gasoline?
    activity and worksheet, 2 pages (PDF, 129 KB)
  12. Rights or Fights
    activity and worksheets, 6 pages (PDF, 239 KB)
  13. Trouble in Paradise
    activity and worksheet, 9 pages (PDF, 373 KB)
  14. More Groundwater Activities
    activity and worksheets, 1 page (PDF, 69 KB)
  15. Publications & Resources
    1 page (PDF, 78 KB)
  16. Back Cover and Credits
    1 page (PDF, 49 KB)
Last Revised: Tuesday June 27 2006