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- Grade Range
- 1st - 4th
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Students explore songs and poems related to the animals, habitats, and activities on rivers and ponds. They listen to song clips, explore various websites, read poems and song lyrics, complete worksheets, and define key vocabulary words. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students practice vocabulary related to rivers, and use both words and definitions to create crossword puzzles. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 12th
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Students identify rivers in their county, state, or province, and research various kinds of animals and plants living in or near the rivers. They write short summaries about the animals and plant life, draw pictures, and compile information in a class book. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students examine the characteristics of streams and rivers. They identify the types of resources lakes, ponds and oceans provide. They ask questions to complete the lesson. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students conduct an interview with a town resident, asking them to describe the history, use, and their memories of a river common to their community. They create a drawing of the river using information from the interview, and write sentences describing their river scene. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 9th
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Students, working in teams, extimate the flow rate of local rivers. They access the Engineering Our Water Living Lab Website to determine the actual flow rate of their chosen river. They analyze discrepancies between extimated and actual data. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 8th
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Students identify major rivers of the world by the location of their sources, their mouths, and/or other significant details of their courses. They work in teams with a game board, when the river is identified. They circle the appropriate point value and record the name of the team which first recognized it. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students evaluate and interpret flood data from Central Texas. They list the tributaries that feed into the Guadalupe River and explain why is it important to include the tributaries in a discussion of the river, especially a discussion about flooding. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students engage in a lesson that is about the development of early river civilizations and how they change over time. They conduct research using class resources and readings. Students find the locations of some of the river civilizations on a map. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 2nd
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Students participate in a think, pair, share activity to begin the lesson. After being read a story, they identify how the people in the story used the river. They discuss why rivers are important to societies and how they influence those living near them. They draw a picture of one use of rivers to end the lesson. Full Review »
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