Teaching kids about watersheds

    • [PDF File]PDF Exploring our Watershed - Metro Vancouver

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      Exploring our Watershed 1 What teachers are saying about the program: • It is a once in a life time experience for most kids. Getting outside is so important to show students something besides electronic games. I also love the pre-package delivered to me and the bus makes it all so easy. • The walk was unforgettable.


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      Shaping Watersheds AR Sandbox Facilitator's Guide "Shaping Watersheds" is an interactive augmented reali-ty 3D exhibit. This exhibit was created by a team of sci-entists, computer scientists, science educators, exhibit designers, and evaluation professionals as part of a grant funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF Award No.


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      our watersheds and their habitats to better serve all beneficial purposes. ... This kind of teaching helps kids make connections in their brain about the benefits of the desired behaviors we teach. We help them believe that their actions matter and will help keep the environment clean.


    • [PDF File]PDF Watershed - VDOE

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      In Virginia, the major regional watershed systems lead to the Chesapeake Bay, the Albemarle Sounds, the Atlantic Ocean, or the Gulf of Mexico (via the Mississippi River). A map is attached that shows the Virginia boundaries of these watersheds. Watersheds connect towns, villages, cities and counties.


    • [PDF File]PDF Education Plan: Black & Paw Paw River Watersheds

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      organizations within the watersheds looking to provide educational opportunities or outreach efforts. The geography of the Black River and Paw Paw River watersheds lend themselves to a partnership approach, which has been a focal point for all information and education efforts to date within the watersheds.


    • [PDF File]PDF STUDENT ACTIVITIES - Wisconsin Historical Society

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      The activities in this document reinforce and supplement the content that students encounter while visiting Great Lakes Small Streams: How Water Shapes Wisconsin, a traveling exhibit from the Wisconsin Historical Society. The exhibit and these activities explore our state's long relationship


    • [PDF File]PDF Section IV LESSONS AND ACTIVITIES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING ...

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      THE CONIFER CONNECTION Page 165 Section IV LESSONS AND ACTIVITIES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING ABOUT THE CONIFEROUS FOREST AND WATERSHED The activities and lessons in The Conifer Connection are correlated with Standards for grades 4-7.


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      professional development program such as Creeks and Kids adheres to the National Research Council's Standards for Professional Development of Teachers of Science (NRC, 1996). By examining the ways in which the Creeks and Kids' EBE-focused approach to teaching about watersheds influences participants' ideas about teaching


    • [PDF File]PDF Watersheds - Catch the Science Bug

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      Watersheds The area of land that drains into a river system is known as a watershed. High points in elevation, ridges and hills, form watershed boundaries by separating the flow of water into two or more watersheds. For example: water that falls on top of a hill may flow down either side of the hill. Water



    • [PDF File]PDF Teacher's Guide to Wetland Activities

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      TEACHER'S GUIDE TO WETLAND ACTIVITIES - Preamble In this guide, wetlands as a key ecosystem found close to most communities across North America, are used to demonstrate a wide variety of ecological concepts and learning outcomes. Through the activities and lessons provided, students will be helped to develop the foundations required for their


    • [PDF File]PDF Crumpled Paper Watershed - Alice Ferguson Foundation

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      Crumpled Paper Watershed, Continued Background Information What is a watershed? A watershed is all of the land that drains runoff (from precipitation) into a body of water, such as a creek, river, lake, bay or ocean. The boundary of a watershed is the ridgeline of high land surrounding it, like the edge of a bowl.


    • [PDF File]PDF Lesson 1 ‐ Great Lakes Watershed

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      Lesson 1 ‐ Great Lakes Watershed Jon Way jonway@deerfieldschools.us Deerfield Public Schools 8th Grade Earth Science Lesson Overview ‐ Students will construct a plaster model of the Great Lakes area and trace an outline of the Great Lakes region.


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      Teaching Earth and Atmospheric Science with the Kids' Crossing Web Site A Guide for Educators Questions about Kids' Crossing or this Educators' Guide? Contact Lisa Gardiner at UCAR Education and Outreach (egardine@ucar.edu).


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      teachinG Kids outdoors As we realize the benefits of spend-ing time outdoors, teaching outside in outdoor classrooms and on field trips is gaining popularity. After all, says the Children and Nature Network's Charles, there isn't any topic that we can't teach outdoors. Cathy Bache, a teacher at the Secret Garden nursery school in


    • [PDF File]PDF More Kids Raising Salmon in School

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      drew, teaching kids about the salmon life cycle, the Columbia River watershed and of course, teaching kids how to fish at Bennington Lake this spring! ized in fisheries biology, because it seemed like that was where most of the jobs were going to be. Little did I know how much I would actually fall in love


    • [PDF File]PDF STEM Activities by Subject

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      • Kids Capture Their Universe - Astrophotography program includes online telescope, imaging software and more. • ASPIRE Lab - features lessons on a variety of astronomy, atmospheric, and other related science topics • Planet-Quest - NASA-linked site that uses technology to engage learning about space


    • [PDF File]PDF Green Learning Sixth Grade Teacher's Guide

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      Green Learning Sixth Grade Teacher's Guide Green Learning is an educational guide designed to help you meet SOL requirements while teaching important concepts about care of the environment to sixth grade students. As you read through the guide, you will see that it incorporates maps, articles, puzzles, and interactive


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      Pennsylvania Learning Standards for Early Childhood were originally constructed as a joint project of the Departments of Education and Human Services. The Office of Child Development and Early Learning in col-laboration with the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education have overseen revisions to the standards.


    • [PDF File]PDF Teacher Resources: Watershed Lesson Plans and Teaching Tools

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      Teacher Resources: Watershed Lesson Plans and Teaching Tools Adopt-A-Watershed Curriculum units are organized by grade level online. Each curriculum unit features projects, field study


    • [PDF File]PDF Office of Water EPAENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

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      Office of Water 4601 EPA 810-F-98-003 June 1998 BUILD YOUR OWN WATERSHED GRADE LEVEL: 8 - 12 BACKGROUND: The land we live on is divided into watersheds. A watershed is a land area whose runoff drains into any river, stream, lake, or ocean. Small watersheds, such as the watershed for the creek


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      Areas of higher elevation called divides separate watersheds from each other. Water flows through a series of channels and eventually it collects in a wide river that empties into a body of water such as an ocean or lake. From an aerial view, drainage patterns in a watershed resemble a network similar to the branching pattern of a tree.


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      The Education and the Environment Initiative is a free, state-sponsored K-12 curriculum for teaching science and social science standards through an environmental lens. Energy Coalition's PEAK program peakstudents.org


    • [PDF File]PDF The Nature of Teaching: Discovering the Watershed Lesson Plan

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      Discovering the Watershed Lesson Plan Teacher's Notes Watershed A watershed is the area of land where all of the water drains into the same place. Watersheds can be composed of creeks, streams, rivers, ponds, lakes, wetlands, groundwater and oceans. Most water will begin its long journey far from where it ends up. For example,


    • [PDF File]PDF MAP SKILLS - National Geographic Society

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      This collection can help with teaching an assortment of map skills through activities that address the spatial thinking abilities of young children. The collection is not intended to be a complete map skills program, and the activities can all be adapted for higher or lower grades.


    • [PDF File]PDF STEM Family Activities Workbook

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      that bug is moving?" "What else have you seen other kids try?" Writing down their thoughts and ideas and taking photos of their exploration are good ways to document their growth in science discovery. STEM Education Must Start in Early Childhood In an article published in Education Week, J. D. Chesloff neatly sums up the case for starting


    • [PDF File]PDF LESSON 2: WHAT IS A WATERSHED?

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      understanding watersheds and particularly the Elwha watershed help you protect the water and other natural resources? OVERVIEW: A watershed is an area where all precipitation either drains on the surface or underground into an outlet stream or river. Watersheds can vary by scale, with a large watershed containing many smaller ones.


    • PDF My Watershed: an early elementary curriculum exploring local ...

      systems, crucial to the understanding of watersheds (NRC 1996). I utilized a teaching concept developed by Kenneth Koch for teaching children poetry (Koch 1973), which entertains the notion that complex subject matters need not be removed from children's education but that educators can find ways of teaching such


    • [PDF File]PDF Crumple a Watershed - OMSI

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      Crumple a Watershed 3 Expedition Northwest 4th Grade Earth Science ©2006, OMSI another. Watersheds are best studied in the field, walking through the watershed itself. However, watersheds are generally very large, on a scale larger than humans tend to


    • [PDF File]PDF What is a Watershed Watershed Demonstration Activity

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      Creek Connections Watersheds Module - Watershed Demonstration Activity 8. High points of land are BOUNDARIES between watersheds. Point out watershed boundary (high point of land) between these two subwatersheds you used. Here water has to make a choice which way to go, which waterway it is going to end up in.


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