Ground Water Web Search
There are a lot of really good websites that highlight the importance of ground
water. These focus on such important topics as ground water contamination,
ground water depletion, and important aquifers. Your job for this activity is to
locate a reliable website that features one of these topics and the influence
that the ground water system has on the people of a region or community.
You can follow links from the reading assignments or use
the search engine of your choice such as: Google,
Yahoo, MSN
or Lycos.
Your report should contain all of the elements listed below and should be posted as
a new thread in the Ground Water Contamination Conference, the Ground Water
Depletion Conference, or the Aquifer Conference, depending upon its content.
Important! Before you begin writing a report for a
site you have found, you should go to the appropriate conference and be sure that
a report on the same website has not already been posted. A deduction of 20% will be
made from your score if you report on a site that is from the reading list or that has
already been reported on by another student. If you find a great site and want to
claim it as your own, go to that conference and post a message containing the
web address of your site and a statement of your intentions. You can
delete this message when you post your report.
Your report must include:
- The title of your website (type this into the "subject" window when you post your message)
- The internet address of your site (from the "location" or "address" box on your browser's tool bar)
- Two or three paragraphs that summarize the content of the site and why it is an
important source of information
- One sentence that tells how you know that this website is or should
be a reliable source of information.
If you want a refresher on the use of search engines, you can return to the Meteor Impact
Lesson and read the instructions for the web search activity.
One final comment: I have been known to be a strict grader on this type of assignment.
Be certain that you follow the instructions and include all of the requested information in
your report. Also, points will be deducted if your report contains spelling, grammar, or
clarity problems.
The image at the top of this page was cropped from the June, 2000 map of
ground water levels in Pennsylvania. This map is part of a series available through the
United States Geoglocial Survey's Pennsylvania Observation Well Network.
