Watershed Studies: Where Does Your Water Flow? (view)
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- Watershed Studies: Where Does Your Water Flow?
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- Learning goals:
- I want my students to understand that the things that people do matter and make a difference in our environment.
- Keywords:
- environment, environmental, inquiry, Inquiry-based Learning, science, outdoor learning, place-based learning, winter, questioning, wonder, run-off, erosion, weathering, stormwater, civic engagement, watershed, Observations, stewardship
- Alignment:
- WI.ELS.C1.A.i, WI.ELS.EN7.B.i, WI.SCI.ESS2.A.5, WI.SCI.CC2.5, WI.SCI.ETS1.A.5, WI.SCI.SEP6.A.5, WI.SCI.SEP8.A.5
Summary
This series of 5 high-quality, standards-aligned, inquiry-based lessons have been field-tested by the fifth grade students of Wequiock Children's Center for Environmental Science and their teachers. These lessons encourage students to use natural areas around their school as they improve their science and engineering skills as part of a unit on earth's systems. Created as a part of a WISELearn OER Innovation project, Connect, Explore, and Engage: Using the Environment as the Context for Science Learning was a collaboration of the Wequiock Children's Center for Environmental Science and the Wisconsin Green Schools Network. One of the goals of the project was to create standards-aligned lessons that utilize the outdoor spaces of the school . These lessons were created to take place during late winter. A stewardship project to reduce the impact of stormwater run-off was planned for the spring.