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A Grave Mistake
Standards Alignment: Grades 6-8
Topics Covered: Earth Systems, Life Science, Diversity
and Interdependence of Life
Lesson Synopsis: Students analyze data to solve a mystery
and identify a potential polluter.
Link to Lesson: Not available in electronic format at this time.
To obtain this lesson, visit the Project Wet website at http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/tabid/3501/Default.aspx
A Living Watershed
Standards Alignment: Grades 6-8
Topics Covered: Diversity and Interdependence of Life; Earth
Systems
Lesson Synopsis: Using the local watershed as a classroom,
students have the opportunity to understand basic ecological concepts,
conduct scientific inquiries, understand the interdependence between
science, technology, and mathematics in an urban community, develop
competency in the use of technology equipment, and develop co-operative
working relations in this unit. Promotes stewardship for our earth.
Link to Lesson: http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/AEF/1996/droege_watershed.php
A Lot of Litter
Standards Alignment: Grades 3-8
Topics Covered: Earth Systems, recycling; Diversity and
Interdependence
Lesson Synopsis: Students will be able to: identify sources
of litter as they read through a play; take a leadership role and
address public issues as they deliver a presentation to their peers;
and identify and assess the possibilities of group decision making,
cooperative activity and the elements of the rules of fair play.
Link to Lesson: A
Lot of Litter (pdf document)
Acid Rain and Its Effect
Standards Alignment: Grades 5-8
Topics Covered: Earth Systems; Human Impact
Lesson Synopsis: Students work in groups for up to three
weeks to investigate the possibility of acid rain in your area and
to investigate the damage that acid rain can do to buildings, monuments,
and plants. Each group will prepare a report to local government
that details their findings.
Link to Lesson:
http://pals.sri.com/tasks/5-8/AcidRain/
Air in Soil
Standards Alignment: Grades 5-8
Topics Covered: Earth Systems; Rocks, Minerals, Soil
Lesson Synopsis: Students will use water to measure the porosity
of topsoil. This will help determine the percent of air space in
topsoil. Students will also design a controlled experiment to determine
the amount of water in soil samples.
Link to Lesson:
http://pals.sri.com/tasks/5-8/AirSoil/
Alice in Waterland
Standards Alignment: Grades 3, 5, 6-8 (Heavy Hitter grades 6-8)
Topics Covered: Earth Systems, Water Cycle, Hydrologic
Cycle, Human Impact
Lesson Synopsis: Students use a simulated field trip, lecture
discussion, and student-gathered data to explore water use and its
effects on wildlife habitat.
Link to Lesson: Not available in electronic format at this time.
To obtain this Project Wild Aquatic lesson, visit the Project Wild
website at http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/tabid/5864/Default.aspx
Cleaning Point Source Pollution
Standards Alignment: Grades 7
Topics Covered: Earth Systems, Pollution
Lesson Synopsis: The students will estimate the amount
of pollution in a water sample, remove pollution from water using
different methods, measure the pollution removed and calculate the
percentage of pollution removed from each sample, and analyze and
discuss the most effective methods of cleaning pollution from water.
Link to Lesson: Cleaning
Point Source Pollution (pdf document)
Cleaning Up
Standards Alignment: Grades 4 and 7
Topics Covered: Earth Systems
Lesson Synopsis: The student will identify ways to prevent surface
water pollution and simulate the removal of pollutants from water
by filtration.
Link to Lesson: Cleaning
Up (pdf document)
To Dam or Not to Dam
Standards Alignment: Grades 4-8
Topics Covered: Earth Systems, Diversity & Interdependence
of Life, Human Impact
Lesson Synopsis: Students portray individuals representing differing
perspectives and concerns related to the potential positive and
negative effects from constructing a dam on a river.
Link to Lesson: Not available in electronic format at this time.
To obtain this Project Wild Aquatic lesson, visit the Project Wild
website at http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/tabid/5864/Default.aspx
Designing a Habitat
Standards Alignment: Grades 3-8 (Heavy Hitter for gr. 7)
Topics Covered: Earth Systems, Diversity & Interdependence
of Life, Habitats, Interactions, Heredity
Lesson Synopsis: Students design a habitat suitable for
aquatic wildlife to survive in a zoo or an aquarium.
Link to Lesson: Not available in electronic format at this time.
To obtain this Project Wild Aquatic lesson, visit the Project Wild
website at http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/tabid/5864/Default.aspx
Ecosystem Services-Water Purification
Standards Alignment: Grades 6-8
Topics Covered: Earth Systems; Human Impact; Water Cycle
Lesson Synopsis: Using the example of natural water purification
to show students that healthy ecosystems provide services to people
that are essential to life as we know it.
Link to Lesson: http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?BenchmarkID=11&DocID=275
Garbage Bag Watershed
Standards Alignment: Grades 5 and 7
Topics Covered: Earth Systems, precipitation; Diversity
and Interdependence of Life Lesson Synopsis: Students build
a tabletop watershed model to determine where rain and snowmelt
flows and demonstrate non-point source pollution and ways to prevent
this pollution.
Link to Lesson: Garbage
Bag Watershed (pdf document)
Get the Groundwater Picture
Standards Alignment: Grades 3-7
Topics Covered: Earth Systems, Life Science, Diversity
and Interdependence of Life
Lesson Synopsis: Students will “get the ground water
picture” and learn about basic ground water principles as
they create their own geologic cross section or earth window.
Link to Lesson: Not available in electronic format at this time.
To obtain this lesson, visit the Project Wet website at http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/tabid/3501/Default.aspx
How Big is a Crowd?
Standards Alignment : Grades 5 Earth Science; Grade 7 Life Science
Topics Covered : Earth Systems; Diversity and Interdependence of Life
Lesson Synopsis : Students compare the relative sizes of the five Great Lakes and their human populations as well as describe some of the problems that arise when many people depend on a limited resource.
Link to Lesson : How Big is a Crowd? (pdf document)
How Does Debris Move in Surface Water?
Standards Alignment : Grades 7 Earth Science
Topics Covered: Earth Systems
Lesson Synopsis : Students use the Great Lakes forecasting System data winds, to investigate how winds, temperatures waves and water levels interact and change over time in Lake Erie.
Link to Lesson: How Does Debris Move in Surface Water? (pdf document)
How Does Debris Move in Surface Water?
Standards Alignment: Grades 7 Earth Science
Topics Covered: Earth Systems
Lesson Synopsis: Students use the Great Lakes forecasting
System data winds, to investigate how winds, temperatures waves
and water levels interact and change over time in Lake Erie.
Link to Lesson: How Does Debris Move in Surface Water? (pdf document)
Handout:
How Does Your Stream Flow?
Standards Alignment: Grades 3-5, 7
Topics Covered: Processes that Shape the Earth; Earth Systems;
Diversity and Interdependence of Life Lesson
Synopsis: Using a Stream Table, students will become familiar
with stream features and the natural processes of erosion and deposition.
They will also experiment with materials that might encourage more
natural patterns of sediment movement and deposition. They will
also explore the impacts of altering streams.
Link to Lesson: How
Does Your Stream Flow? (pdf document)
Modeling a Catchment Basin
Standards Alignment: Grades 3-5, 6-8
Topics Covered: Life Sciences; Ecosystems: Science and Technology;
Human Impact
Lesson Synopsis: Students will construct a 3-dimensional
model of a catchment basin or watershed. They will use the model
to explore catchment basins, water pathways, and manipulate the
model to illustrate how basins (and water pathways) can change.
Link to Lesson:
http://www.globe.gov/tctg/hydro_la_modelcatchment.pdf?sectionId=160
N, T, B: Pollutants Three
Standards Alignment: Grades 5 and 7
Topics Covered: Earth Systems
Lesson Synopsis: The student will do list and describe three types
of surface water pollution (nutrient, bacterial, toxic); observe
the effects of various water pollutants on algae growth and illustrate
a cause of each of the three types of pollution.
Link to Lesson: N, T, B: Pollutants Three (pdf document)
Pollution on the Move
Standards Alignment: Grades 5,7
Topics Covered: Earth Systems; Human Impact on Earth; Diversity
and Interdependence of Life, Interaction of Organisms
Lesson Synopsis: Students will be able to: describe pollution;
identify sources of natural and human-made pollutants; explain how
pollutants enter and move through the environment; and explain how
recycling reduces pollution.
Link to Lesson: Pollution
on the Move (pdf document)
Additional Handouts used with this lesson: Mapping
Pollution, Pollution
Clues, Venn
Diagram
Pollution Search
Standards Alignment: Grades 3-8 (Heavy Hitter gr. 5)
Topics Covered: Earth Systems; pollution
Lesson Synopsis: Here’s a way for your students to
take a closer look at pollution: what it is, what its sources are,
and what are some things people can do to reduce it.
Link to Lesson: Not available in electronic format at this time.
To obtain this lesson, visit the Project Learning Tree website at http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/tabid/5116/Default.aspx
Puddles and Soil
Standards Alignment: Grades 5-8
Topics Covered: Earth Systems; Human Impact
Lesson Synopsis: Students study four samples of "rain
water." The students are asked to determine the pH of the samples
and then to neutralize them.
Link to Lesson: http://pals.sri.com/tasks/5-8/Pollution/
Role of Plants in Water Filtration
Standards Alignment: Grades 4-7
Topics Covered: Diversity and Interdependence of Life; Earth
Systems
Lesson Synopsis: Students will experiment with plants and
pollutants to understand the role of plants in filtering water moving
through a watershed.
Link to Lesson: http://www.epa.gov/safewater/kids/activity_grades_4-8_plantsinwaterfiltration.html
Salt, Salt, No More Salt
Standards Alignment: 7
Topics Covered: Earth Systems
Lesson Synopsis: Students will experiment with salt applications
and determine its affects on plants and resulting affects on water
quality.
Link to Lesson: Salt,
Salt, No More Salt (pdf document)
Sparkling Water
Standards Alignment: Grades 6-8
Topics Covered: Earth Systems, water cycle
Lesson Synopsis: Students develop strategies to remove
contaminants from “Wastewater”.
Link to Lesson: Not available in electronic format at this time.
To obtain this lesson, visit
the Project Wet website at http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/tabid/3501/Default.aspx
Stream Dynamics
Standards Alignment: Earth and Space Science
Topics Covered: streams and erosion
Lesson Synopsis: The purpose of this lesson is to compare a natural
stream with one that has been straightened in an urban area. The
student will se how water movers slower in a meandering stream.
They will also look at how a meandering stream is actually longer
than a straight stream.
Link to Lesson: Stream
Dynamics (pdf document)
Super Bowl Surge
Standards Alignment: Grades 3-8
Topics Covered: Earth Systems, Life Science, Evolutionary
Theory
Lesson Synopsis: Students do in-depth research and present
action plans to solve the problem of increased demands on a community’s
wastewater treatment plant.
Link to Lesson: Not available in electronic format at this time.
To obtain this lesson, visit the Project Wet website at http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/tabid/3501/Default.aspx
The Water Cycle
Standards Alignment: 4-7
Topics Covered: Earth Systems, the Water Cycle
Lesson Synopsis: Students will discover how water is created in
nature and the path it takes to reach our rivers, streams, and taps.
Using the scientific method, students will conduct an experiment
that simulates the water cycle.
Link to Lesson: http://www.thirteen.org/h2o/educators_lesson2.html
Waste Watchers
Standards Alignment: Grades 3-8 (Heavy Hitter gr. 5-7)
Topics Covered: Earth Systems, Human Impact on Earth; Nature
of Matter; Nature of Energy, Energy Types/Sources
Lesson Synopsis: In this activity, students can take a
look at how they use energy in their own homes and how they can
reduce the amount of energy they waste.
Link to Lesson: Not available in electronic format at this time.
To obtain this lesson, visit the Project Learning Tree website at
http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/tabid/5116/Default.aspx
Watch on Wetlands
Standards Alignment: Grades 6-8
Topics Covered: Earth Systems, human impact, Diversity
and Interdependence of Life, Evolutionary Theory; human impact,
ecosystems
Lesson Synopsis: Students will study a wetland ecosystem
and analyze the issues and opinions relating to the protection and
management of wetlands.
Link to Lesson: Not available in electronic format at this time.
To obtain this lesson, visit the Project Learning Tree website at http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/tabid/5116/Default.aspx
Watershed
Standards Alignment: Grades 6-8 (Heavy Hitter gr. 7)
Topics Covered: Earth Systems, Precipitation, Diversity & Interdependence of Life, Habitats
Lesson Synopsis: Students measure the area of a local watershed,
calculate the amount of water it receives each year, and discuss
the varied roles the watershed plays in human and wildlife habitat.
Link to Lesson: Not available in electronic format at this time.
To obtain this Project Wild Aquatic lesson, visit the Project Wild
website at http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/tabid/5864/Default.aspx
Water Canaries
Standards Alignment: Grades 5-8 (Heavy Hitter grades 5 & 7)
Topics Covered: Earth Systems, Water Quality, Diversity & Interdependence of Life, Interactions
Lesson Synopsis: Students investigate a stream or pond
using sampling techniques (pH, water temperature, and the presence
of a diversity of organisms).
Link to Lesson: Not available in electronic format at this time.
To obtain this Project Wild Aquatic lesson, visit the Project Wild
website at http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/tabid/5864/Default.aspx
Water Holding Capacity of Soil
Standards Alignment: Grades 5-8
Topics Covered: Earth Systems; Rocks, Minerals, Soil
Lesson Synopsis: The retention of water by different materials affects
their use by plants and animals. In this activity, students design
a method to determine the water-holding capacity of sand, soil,
and moss.
Link to Lesson: http://pals.sri.com/pals/tasks/9-12/WaterCapacity/
Water Pollution
Standards Alignment: Grades 5-8
Topics Covered: Earth Systems; Human Impact
Lesson Synopsis: Students study four samples of "rain
water." The students are asked to determine the pH of the samples
and then to neutralize them.
Link to Lesson: http://pals.sri.com/tasks/5-8/Pollution/
Water Pollution Hot-Spots
Standards Alignment: 6-8
Topics Covered: Earth Systems, the Water Cycle, Human Impact on
the Environment
Lesson Synopsis: Students will learn about pollution and different
types of contaminants found in water. They will then research some
of the world’s most polluted water hot spots and devise plans
for pollution prevention.
Link to Lesson: http://www.thirteen.org/h2o/educators_lesson3.html
Water Use & Conservation
Standards Alignment: 4-8
Topics Covered: Earth Systems, the Water Cycle, Human Impact on
the Environment
Lesson Synopsis: Students will learn what it means to conserve water,
and will monitor their family’s water use, as well as propose
methods for home water conservation.
Link to Lesson: http://www.thirteen.org/h2o/educators_lesson4.html
Wetland Metaphors
Standards Alignment: Grades 5, 7, 8 (Heavy Hitter grades
5 & 7)
Topics Covered: Earth Systems, Diversity & Interdependence
of Life
Lesson Synopsis: Students are presented with a selection
of objects to investigate as metaphors for the natural functions
of wetlands.
Link to Lesson: Not available in electronic format at this time.
To obtain this lesson, visit the Project Wild website at http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/tabid/5864/Default.aspx
Where Does the Water Run?
Standards Alignment: Grades 4-8 (Heavy Hitter gr. 7)
Topics Covered: Earth Systems, Water Cycle, Diversity & Interdependence of Life, Habitats, Nature of Matter, Interactions
Lesson Synopsis: Students will describe relationships among
precipitations, runoff, and aquatic habitats, using measurements
they take in the field about these items.
Link to Lesson: Not available in electronic format at this time.
To obtain this lesson, visit the Project Wild website at http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/tabid/5864/Default.aspx
What is the Impact of Beach Debris?
Standards Alignment: Grade 7 Earth Science
Topics Covered: Earth Systems
Lesson Synopsis: Students will list and explain many potential impacts of beach debris.
Link to Lesson: What is the Impact of Beach Debris? (pdf document)
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