Description
- Overview:
- This lesson engages 5th grade students in identifying areas of erosion and non-point source pollution entering waterways on school property, making a claim on the most suitable site to locate a rain garden by conducting field tests on slope and soil type, and testing
for the presence of phosphates in waterways on school forest property. Students then compete in a rain garden design challenge using their data to create a poster presentation, including a map and claim evidence reasoning, for the best rain garden design plan, scored using a rubric.
- Subject:
- Geology, Hydrology, Elementary Education, Reading Informational Text, Speaking and Listening, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability, Environmental Science, Measurement and Data, Physical Science
- Level:
- Upper Primary
- Grades:
- Grade 5
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab, Formative Assessment, Interim/Summative Assessment, Lesson Plan, Rubric/Scoring Guide, Unit of Study
- Author:
- Amy Workman
- Date Added:
- 08/02/2019
- License:
-
Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike
- Language:
- English
- Media Format:
- Graphics/Photos, Text/HTML
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