WATER IS LIFE
Unit Lesson Outline with links to Lesson plans
Link to NGSS Disciplinary Core Ideas, Performance Expectations and Crosscutting Concepts
Day 1: Introduction to Phenomenon: Modeling Health of three different water resources Days 2 and 3: Health of Local Water Resources: Determining Water Quality and Biodiversity: Option 1 - Field trip to site to make observations, collect water samples for water quality testing, and macroinvertebrate survey: Option 2 - In class site photo odocs.google.com/document/d/1BhrLf1EPyl7OYCac3G6gUIxfsMhewk06frEIe2tFG6Y/edit?usp=sharingbservations (or google tour), sample water quality testing, determining key indicator macroinvertebrate species expected in each site
Days 2 and 3 Lesson Plan
Day 4-6: Modeling Water Flow through Ecosystems -Wikiwatershed: Land Cover Simulation and Model My watershed: water cycle basics/ water usage/water cycle disruption, Effects of different types of land cover, hydrologic soil type, agricultural activity, on runoff and water quality
Day 4 Lesson Plan
Day 5 Lesson Plan
Day 6 Lesson Plan
Day 7: Human Impact on Land and Water in CT - CLEAR website and CT Changing Landscape Story Map - Students use online resources to investigate changing factors that contribute to the health of the 3 water resource sites since 1985
Day 7 Lesson Plan
Day 8 and 9: Ecological Services: Why is it important to manage natural resources such as land and water? - Possible Literacy Articles: Accounting for Nature’s Benefits:The Dollar Value of Ecosystem Services: Neglected biodiversity and the current extinction crisis
Days 8 and 9 Lesson Plan
Day 10: Human Decision Making: Legislation - Clean Water Act: Possible Literacy Articles - Why Rivers no Longer Burn, The Potential Big Impact of Trump’s Clean Water Rollback
Day 10 Lesson Plan
Day 11: Revision of Original Model, Discussion, and Individual Explanations
Day 11 Lesson Plan
Day 12: Class Review of Group Models and Building of Class Consensus Model
Day 12 Lesson Plan
DAY 13 - 15: Ecojustice Tie-in Lessons: Do all people in the United States have access to clean water?
Day 13 Lesson Plan
Day 14 & 15 Lesson Plan
Days 16 - 20+ Engineering Design Task (EDT) and/or Ecojustice Community Action Project (EJCAP)
Engineering Design Task:
Ecojustice Community Action Project
Day 1: Introduction to Phenomenon: Modeling Health of three different water resources Days 2 and 3: Health of Local Water Resources: Determining Water Quality and Biodiversity: Option 1 - Field trip to site to make observations, collect water samples for water quality testing, and macroinvertebrate survey: Option 2 - In class site photo odocs.google.com/document/d/1BhrLf1EPyl7OYCac3G6gUIxfsMhewk06frEIe2tFG6Y/edit?usp=sharingbservations (or google tour), sample water quality testing, determining key indicator macroinvertebrate species expected in each site
Days 2 and 3 Lesson Plan
Day 4-6: Modeling Water Flow through Ecosystems -Wikiwatershed: Land Cover Simulation and Model My watershed: water cycle basics/ water usage/water cycle disruption, Effects of different types of land cover, hydrologic soil type, agricultural activity, on runoff and water quality
Day 4 Lesson Plan
Day 5 Lesson Plan
Day 6 Lesson Plan
Day 7: Human Impact on Land and Water in CT - CLEAR website and CT Changing Landscape Story Map - Students use online resources to investigate changing factors that contribute to the health of the 3 water resource sites since 1985
Day 7 Lesson Plan
Day 8 and 9: Ecological Services: Why is it important to manage natural resources such as land and water? - Possible Literacy Articles: Accounting for Nature’s Benefits:The Dollar Value of Ecosystem Services: Neglected biodiversity and the current extinction crisis
Days 8 and 9 Lesson Plan
Day 10: Human Decision Making: Legislation - Clean Water Act: Possible Literacy Articles - Why Rivers no Longer Burn, The Potential Big Impact of Trump’s Clean Water Rollback
Day 10 Lesson Plan
Day 11: Revision of Original Model, Discussion, and Individual Explanations
Day 11 Lesson Plan
Day 12: Class Review of Group Models and Building of Class Consensus Model
Day 12 Lesson Plan
DAY 13 - 15: Ecojustice Tie-in Lessons: Do all people in the United States have access to clean water?
Day 13 Lesson Plan
Day 14 & 15 Lesson Plan
Days 16 - 20+ Engineering Design Task (EDT) and/or Ecojustice Community Action Project (EJCAP)
Engineering Design Task:
- Engineering Design Task Day 1: Researching Low Impact Development (LID) to protect or improve these resources
- Engineering Design Task Day 2: Initiating Design of LID project for school’s water resource
- Engineering Design Task Days 3-5+: Designing solution and building prototype[optional] and Presenting
Ecojustice Community Action Project
- Ecojustice Community Action Project Day 1: Determining potential environmental racism sites using EPA EJSCREEN tool
- Ecojustice Community Action Project Day 2 and 3+:
Unit Authors: Laura Rodriguez, Todd Campbell, Chet Arnold, John Volin, Laura Cisneros, David Moss, Emily Wilson, Mike Willig, Cary Chadwick, David Dickson, Michael Dietz
A collaboration of the Natural Resources Conservation Academy, Center for Land Use Education and Research and Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut
A collaboration of the Natural Resources Conservation Academy, Center for Land Use Education and Research and Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut
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