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What Makes Up a Healthy Watershed

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Students, after observing the elements of a local watershed, explore the need to protect watersheds as water resources for the future. They examine the factors involved with a watershed: geology, ecology, and the effect of man's influence. In addition, they record their observations in their science journals and write a short report about the watershed area visited.

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watersheds, water, ecology, geology

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ecology, geology, man's influence, watershed, science
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Grade
9th - 12th
Subjects
Science
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For Teacher Use
Duration
14 days
Instructional Strategy
Research

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