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2 Lessons: |
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Lesson
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"Basics of scientific research"(Lesson
Plan) |
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-Students
will learn vocabulary
as well as various chemical formulas relating to the science
of water testing. |
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-Students
will study the methodology (scientific method) in order
to answer several questions relating to water testing including
“what are we testing?” “What is in the
water that should or should not be in the water?”
“What’s not in the water that should be in the
water?” “What does this (my findings/data) mean?” |
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-Students
will analyze data that has already been collected by scientists
along the Cuyahoga River and its Tributaries. |
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Lesson
2 "Environmental Investigation and Analysis"
(Lesson Plan) |
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-Students
will collect samples from a specific location along the
Cuyahoga River or one of its major tributaries. |
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-Students
will analyze and chart the data they discover and collect. |
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- Teachers
will post the data collected by their students onto a database
in order for their students to analyze, share, and compare
results with other schools within their community. |
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3 Lessons: |
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Lesson
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"Raise Community Awareness and/or
Elicit Social Action" (Lesson
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will synthesize all the data they collected during the course
of the project to create a community action project. The
students will design a poster, a power point presentation,
or shoot and edit a video in order to raise local community
awareness. This can be used as a final assessment piece. |
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