<p>Intro Activity: Water Is Life—Web Quest Name:______</p><p>Directions: First, complete the Pre-Activity Questions. Next, use your mouse to click your way through the Waterlife Website linked on the wikipage (mhsenvironment.wikispaces.com). First, investigate all the themes marked with an * . Then choose three more themes to investigate. You may need to move your mouse around to discover what you can click on. When you cannot go any further move back over to the menu on the left side and proceed to the next theme. As you learn about each theme, record essential information and interesting facts below. Finally, complete the Post-Activity Questions.</p><p>Pre-Activity Questions:</p><p>1. Look through the terms and topics listed. Which terms are already familiar to you? Put a check mark by these.</p><p>2. Look through the terms and topics listed a second time. Which terms are unfamiliar? Put a star by these.</p><p>3. Do you have a connection to the Great Lakes, or do you know something about the Great Lakes? Explain your connection or knowledge.</p><p>Theme Vocabulary/Terminology/Topics Definition/Interesting Fact/s Lake Huron</p><p>Lake Ontario</p><p>Lake Michigan HOME</p><p>Lake Erie</p><p>Lake Superior</p><p>Pharmaceuticals *EVERYTHING</p><p>First People HISTORY</p><p>Fishing as a Hobby</p><p>FISHING Fish Survey</p><p>*POISON St. Lawrence Belugas</p><p>Human Cancer Corporate Interest and Industry</p><p>*CHEMICALS Chemical Soup/ Toxicity</p><p>Love Canal</p><p>Chemical Valley</p><p>*NEGLECT Saginaw Bay</p><p>Health Problems</p><p>Combined Sewer</p><p>*WASTE Green Infrastructure</p><p>China /Grasshopper Effect INTERNATIONAL</p><p>PCBS/ Frogs *CHANGE</p><p>ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS BOTTLED (Production/Purification/Plastic)</p><p>Economy</p><p>POWER Water Uses</p><p>Invasive Species</p><p>SHIPPING Global Warming</p><p>Ice Cover and Water Level EVAPORATING</p><p>WETLANDS Importance to Ecosystems Asian Carp</p><p>Zebra Mussels INVASIVE SPECIES Lampreys</p><p>Water Walkers and Medicine HEALING</p><p>Definition</p><p>Purposes DREDGING</p><p>Problems/Challenges</p><p>1972</p><p>1978</p><p>*POLITICAL 2008</p><p>Partnerships/Commitments</p><p>Triclosan RESPONSIBILITY</p><p>Henry Regier</p><p>Jennifer Nalbone ACTION</p><p>Pierre Beland</p><p>Water Uses MUSICAL</p><p>IN YOU AND ME We are water Post Activity Questions:</p><p>1. Why do you think the water in the Great Lakes (and in the nation) is still polluted, even though we have laws and regulations like the Clean Water Act? Explain at least two reasons.</p><p> Explanation 1:</p><p> Explanation 2:</p><p>2. What three pieces of knowledge were most shocking or eye-opening today? Explain why?</p><p>Knowledge Piece 1:</p><p> Explanation:</p><p>Knowledge Piece 2:</p><p> Explanation:</p><p>Knowledge Piece 3: </p><p> Explanation:</p><p>3. Which themes or topics would you like to know more about? Do you have any specific questions about these themes? (Write down the questions you have.) </p>