- Safety Data Sheets for WQM Chemicals
Below are the Safety Data Sheets for each of the chemicals included in our Water Quality Monitoring kits.
Dissolved Oxygen
Manganous Sulfate
Alkine Potassium Iodide
Sulfuric Acid
Starch Indicator
Sodium Thiosulfate
Nitrates
Nitrate #1 tablet
Nitrate #2 tablet
pH
pH indicator solution
Turbidity
Standard Turbidity reagent
- The Pacific Northwest Fish Wars: What Kinds of Actions Can Lead to Justice?
This online lesson provides perspectives from Native American community members and their supporters, images, news footage, an interactive timeline, and other sources about an important campaign to secure the treaty rights and sovereignty of Native Nations of the Pacific Northwest. Explore the many actions Native Nations took to address injustices.
- Wetland Safari – Benthic Macroinvertebrates
In this activity, students will learn and/or practice microscopy technique, while sorting freshwater macroinvertebrates by order, ultimately using the invertebrates to make a claim about the health of a wetland.
- Fecal Coliform Lab
This lab walks you through fecal coliform testing, an important part of water quality monitoring!
- Seeing Watersheds
In this activity, students use maps to characterize what a watershed is; to identify the key parts and functions of watersheds; to determine watershed boundaries; to discover how watersheds are named; and to describe how water flows in a watershed based on elevation.
- Beat the Uncertainty: Planning Climate-Resilient Cities
In this activity, you and your fellow players are the leaders—citizens, policymakers, business leaders, nonprofit leaders, and researchers—of a coastal city. Your job is to make smart decisions that will increase the city’s resilience to climate change.
- Engineering a Solution to Watershed Pollution
In this two part activity, students will first be introduced to the water cycle and discover how water moves through a system. In the second part, students will engineer a solution to the problem of pollution entering our water bodies.
- Game of Floods
The Game of Floods is a small group activity, with 4-6 participants tasked with developing a vision for ‘Marin Island 2050,’ a hypothetical landscape that highlights the conditions that will be experienced in Marin in coming years with sea level rise and increased storm impacts causing the loss or deterioration of homes, community facilities, roads, ...
- Thermal Expansion and Sea Level Rise
This activity provides an opportunity for students to investigate how thermal expansion of water affects sea level rise. The suggested lab activity allows students to observe and describe the change in water level in a container when the water is exposed to heat.
- Nisqually Delta Restoration Puzzle
The Nisqually River Delta in Washington State provides a model of river estuary restoration and a hopeful message about our environment. This puzzle provides a hands-on learning activity for adults and children to visualize the impact of removing 100-year-old agricultural dikes at the Nisqually Delta on salmon and the thousands of species that rely on ...