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Earthworks
Earth System Science for Secondary Teachers
Grade: 7
Content: Life Science/Water
Science Standards: Inquiry
Time: Fall/Spetember-1 week-2 weeks; Spring/May-1 week
Background Needs: Watershed, Value of Water
Objectives:
- Appreciate the importance of water as a natural resource/vital for life.
- Understand the impact we (humans) have on our watershed.
Procedures:
- Pose questions/Problems to solve. "You are a limnologist who has been hired by the IEPA to determine; why there are dead fish in the pond downstream from your creek?"
- Review watershed
- Brainstorm value of water
- Go out and inventory natural resources in our watershed
- Write journal about watershed and hypothesis problem
- Collect and test water samples
- Collect and ID benthic macroinvert.
- Graph and analyze data
- Discuss findings-journal
- Write report/conclusion to IEPA
Assessment:
- check graphs
- check conclusions/reports to IEPA
- Write songs with drama about water suing vocabulary learned. Example-To tune of itsy bitsy spider
Enrichment:
Macro invert. Tag game
Resources:
- McHenry Co. Soil and Water conservation Dist.
- Crystal Lake Park Dist. Staff
- River Watch Local Staff
- Rivers Project Activities & Testing Proced.
- Water testing materials
Barriers:
To avoid discipline problems outside, I will do this "lesson" in September when we (kids and I) are fresh, interested, and capable of good attitudes. If I wait until May, sometimes behavior and attitudes have deteriorated. Having done this in the fall, we can go out and respect in May when Macroinverts will be plentiful.
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