Earth's Water Cycle
This NASA video provides a nice overview of Earth's water cycle from the perspective of looking at Earth from space.
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Water Water Everywhere
This is a short NASA video on the water cycle. The video shows the importance of the water cycle to nearly every natural process on Earth and illustrates how tightly coupled the water cycle is to climate.
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Water Water Everywhere
This classroom demonstration illustrates the amount of water stored in various parts of the Earth system in a straightforward manner.
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The Water Cycle
This activity was developed to give participants an understanding of Earth's water cycle by completing a WebQuest and building a model of the water cycle.
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The Water Cycle
This visualization, from the US Geological Survey, provides a simple schematic of the various pathways that water can take as it cycles through ocean, lakes, atmosphere, surface and ground.
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ESRI Drought Tracker
Using US Drought Monitor data and its classification system, this interactive tool tracks drought in the continental US by county, from 2000 to the present.
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Drought: Identifying Impacts and Evaluating Solutions Lesson Plan
Through this set of lessons, students learn about the impacts of water shortages due to drought, make connections to climate patterns, and explore community resiliency solutions.
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Elementary GLOBE Water Module
Students learn about the water cycle and hydrology through a series of three lessons, two coloring book pages, and an e-Book.
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Water: A Zero Sum Game
This video takes viewers high into the Rocky Mountain snowpack, where researchers dig snow pits to explore the source of Colorado's water supply.
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Colorado River water supply
This activity addresses climate change impacts that affect all states that are part of the Colorado River Basin and are dependent on its water.
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