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| All activities intend to introduce students to process through testing and procedure, to product through reporting, to analysis through examining and comparing a range of data. Within the process students acquire an understanding of water quality, water testing, biological relationships, and an environmental system. Logistics and Resources | |
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| The Life of a Drip: As an assessment of prior learning for students' knowledge of water terminology and knowledge of physical processes students pretend to be a drop of water and tell their story in persona as the drop of water goes through the seasons, through physical transition, or through a geographic journey from sky to sea. Each writing should be illustrated with diagrams or story boards to show terms and processes. assessment: anecdotal review of accuracy, organization, and content in class presentation |
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| Three Seasons Testing: Chemical,
Bacteriological, and Benthic: The testing begins our school year at The Falls at Otter Creek. Students, relatively unititiated with testing processes and testing specifics (in this case the chemical, bacteriological, and benthic) will be stationed at designated points in groups of two along the basin. Each group will go through the series of tests in the field with follow-up activities as necessary. Following the field testing, students will go through step-by-step explanations of the purpose and structure of the tests; collect, average, and examine data from the groups; determine the quality of the water; examine causal relationships within the data groups and the surrounding environment. Students will, with familiarity with the process, make predictions about water conditions during the winter and spring when small groups will return to the site for testing. assessment: completion and presentation of all tests in each of three categories, completion of tests averaging from daily groups, completion of summary report of tests to include water quality comments grade prorated on percentage completion, content, accuracy < rubric |
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| Video Interviews: With the fall visits two students will daily videotape the on-site testing as a way to have testers articulate the process for themselves. Videotapers will interview each group, covering each test, and editing the tape for a later presentation to the school community. assessment:anecdotal review of edited 30 minute tape with interview comments and narration for class presentation |
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| What Happens When : A follow-up activity and a concrete application of the predictions element in the testing, students will create a game or activity that provides the players with scenarios that change with a change in variables - weather, agriculture, pollution, population. The activity provides students with the opportunity to apply (or acquire) an understanding of systems in a graphical format. |
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| Symposiums: Student directed discussions on water quality, pollution, social responsibility to environment and communities. |
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