Our Wonderful Watershed Next Generation Science Standards (grades 3-5) 5-ESS3-1 Earth and Human Activity Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment. Activity: Day around the Bay and discussion Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost. Activity: Wetland in a Pan Materials: PowerPoint – CB Watershed Presentation Aquarium, film canisters, ingredients to refill canisters, story, paper towels Aluminum pans (10-15) Foil sheets Sponges Measuring cups (1 per group) 5 gallon bucket of soil 5 gallon bucket for water (for demonstration and cleaning sponges) 5 gallon bucket for waste Food coloring to demonstrate pollution – fertilizer or pesticides Lesson Outline: PowerPoint – CB Watershed Presentation Follow the Rain Trace tributaries that lead to CB Watershed Definition – an area of land where all the water that is under it or drains off of it collects into the same place Introduce CB watershed – 6 states Day around the Bay Story With so many people living around the Bay (over 18 million), the Bay has started to become polluted. Who polluted the Bay? Let’s listen to the story to find out. Materials – aquarium, film canisters, ingredients to refill canisters, story, paper towels One way is help the Bay is to plant wetlands! Let’s demonstrate. Wetland in a Pan materials Aluminum pans (10-15)
Our Wonderful Watershed Next Generation Science Standards (grades 3-5) 5-ESS3-1 Earth and Human Activity Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment. Activity: Day around the Bay and discussion Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost. Activity: Wetland in a Pan Materials: PowerPoint – CB Watershed Presentation Aquarium, film canisters, ingredients to refill canisters, story, paper towels Aluminum pans (10-15) Foil sheets Sponges Measuring cups (1 per group) 5 gallon bucket of soil 5 gallon bucket for water (for demonstration and cleaning sponges) 5 gallon bucket for waste Food coloring to demonstrate pollution – fertilizer or pesticides Lesson Outline: PowerPoint – CB Watershed Presentation Follow the Rain Trace tributaries that lead to CB Watershed Definition – an area of land where all the water that is under it or drains off of it collects into the same place Introduce CB watershed – 6 states Day around the Bay Story With so many people living around the Bay (over 18 million), the Bay has started to become polluted. Who polluted the Bay? Let’s listen to the story to find out. Materials – aquarium, film canisters, ingredients to refill canisters, story, paper towels One way is help the Bay is to plant wetlands! Let’s demonstrate. Wetland in a Pan materials Aluminum pans (10-15)
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