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- Kindergarten - 4th
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Students explore the water cycle. After a discussion of the steps in the water cycle, students sing a water cycle song. Each verse of the song describes a part of the water cycle. It includes vocabulary terms such as infiltrate, run off, evaporate, precipitation, and stream. Full Review »
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- 4th - 8th
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Students explore the water cycle. In groups, students choose a card and then pantomime the picture depicted on the card. Other group members guess the name of the cycle being performed. As a class, students share the numerous ways each water cycle topic was performed. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 8th
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Students explore the sources of freshwater. Through a teacher discussion and demonstration, students proportionally observe a comparison of drinking water to ocean water. Students discuss the water cycle and how pollutants affect our water supply. Full Review »
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- 5th - 7th
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Students explore the water cycle. After a class discussion on the water cycle, students participate in activities to identify places water can move. Students move to different stations located in the room to role play water as it moves through the water cycle. They write a story describing the movement of water.w Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 6th
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Students brainstorm different adaptations that bug would need to live in aquatic environment, and watch presentation where classmate is dressed up in costume to represent adapatations necessary for macroinvertebrate to survive in water. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students study the four groups of macroinvertebrates. In groups, they explore the characteristics of macroinvertebrates. Through playing a Macroinvertebrate Simon Says game, students discover the adaptations of the animals and their feeding habits. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 5th
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Students are introduced to macroinertebrates (primarily insects), the major segments of aquatic insects (the head, thorax and abdomen) and also differentiate between larval, nymph and adult stages. They investigate about the head, thorax and abdomen of insects by mixing and matching pictures of the bugs. Students match the larva of each species to the adult. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 5th
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Students are introduced to macroinvertebrates through collection and observation. They investigate how to collect macroinvertebrates, observe and identify them. Students wades int and stream and place their net so the mouth of the net is perpendicular to and facing the flow of water. They remove the attached animals with a stone. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 5th
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Students describe and identify the quality of a stream site by analyzing its macroinvertebrates. They investigate the water quality indicators through the use of candy representing a "macroinvertebrate sample." Sorting the candy and evaluating what is found students are find out about the quality of the water. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 8th
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Students describe and identify the link between land use activities within a watershed and water quality. They evaluate the quality of a "water sample" ( a bag of skittles), graph their results, and form a hypothesis about the land use near the location their "water sample" was collected. Full Review »
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