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. Click here if you need further assistance for downloading these files.

The entire Groundwater Study Guide:

Groundwater Wisconsin's Buried Treasure Study Guide (PDF, 15 MB) May take a long time to download.
Activity Guide, 36 Pages plus worksheets

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

  1. Introduction and Glossary
    2 Pages (PDF, 976 KB)
  2. The Water Cycle-Round and Round it Goes
    activity and worksheets, 7 Pages (PDF, 896KB)
  3. How Groundwater Moves
    activity and worksheet, 4 pages (PDF, 621 KB)
  4. Well, Well, Well
    activity and worksheet, 4 Pages (PDF, 708 KB)
  5. Wisconsin's Major Aquifers
    activity and worksheets, 6 pages (PDF, 1.05 MB)
  6. Plume of Contamination
    activity and worksheet, 4 pages (PDF, 609 KB)
  7. Where Does it Come From?...Where Does it Go?
    activity, 2 pages (PDF, 370 KB)
  8. How Septic Sytems Work
    activity and worksheets, 7 pages (PDF, 1.55 MB)
  9. Caution: This Product May be Hazardous to Your Health
    activity and worksheets, 12 pages (PDF, 2.37 MB)
  10. It'll Go With the Flow...
    activity and worksheets, 4 pages (PDF, 804 KB)
  11. What if Water Cost as Much as Gasoline?
    activity and worksheet, 2 pages (PDF, 399 KB)
  12. Rights or Fights
    activity and worksheets, 6 pages (PDF, 1.28 MB)
  13. Trouble in Paradise
    activity and worksheet, 9 pages (PDF, 2.07 MB)
  14. More Groundwater Activities
    activity and worksheets, 1 page (PDF, 333 KB)
  15. Appendix
    1 page (PDF, 330 KB)
  16. Resources
    4 pages (PDF, 854 KB)
  17. Back Cover and Credits
    1 page (PDF, 107 KB)
Last Revised: Wednesday March 31 2004