- Biomonitoring Calculations (3 Lessons)
These lessons provide steps on how to calculate the Species Area Curve (Lesson 1), Desired Volume and Correction
Factor (Lesson 2), and Species Diversity Using the Shannon-Wiener Diversity Index (Lesson 3).
- Earth Day Exercises (Resources)
Online curriculum resources and suggested activities for your students on Earth Day.
- Exploring Aquifers (7 Lessons)
Explore the importance of water, particularly groundwater. These lessons provide an opportunity
to reveal interconnections between geology, aquifer location and water movement, population growth
and development, and species evolution.
- Graphing Calculator Applications to
Data Collection Sets (Introduction and 4 Lessons)
These lessons provide applications of the graphing calculator to various sets of collected
water quality, biological, and garbology data.
- Niche Adaptation (1 Lab)
Students evaluate the physical characteristics and resulting habits of macroinvertebrates, which are
beneficial in their adaptation to a fresh water stream environment.
- Nonpoint Source Pollution (6 Lessons)
This unit explores nonpoint source pollution, its source, impacts, and consequences.
- pH Effects on Macroinvertebrates (1 Lab)
The purpose of this lab is to analyze and compare the effects of lowered and raised pH changes on aquatic
invertebrates.
- Pollutant Effects (1 Lab)
Students working in groups will conduct an activity to observe and determine what changes occur in water
as a result of the addition of fertilizers high in phosphate and/or nitrate.
- Problem Based Learning (1 Lab)
Students will simulate a situation to resolve a problem that arises while on a field site visit. This lesson
plan provides guidance for how to structure an effective problem based learning (PBL) lab for your students.
- Tsunamis: Walls of Water New! (3 Lessons)
Understand how tsunamis are generated and the various sources that create them.
These lessons comprise a learning module of the Cataclysms & Catastrophes series
developed in partnership with
UTIG.
- Water Quality Sampling (6 Lessons)
This unit provides an introduction to water quality sampling procedures.
- Water Stories (6 Lessons)
Introduce your students to the significance of water through hands-on activities that answer questions,
such as "What are our waterways?", "Where does the water go?", "What is the quality of this water?",
"Who relies on this water?", and "What story does this water have to tell?".
- Wetlands (5 Lessons)
These hands-on activities will teach your students many things they need to know about wetlands, the ecology of
common wetland animals, the role of wetlands in the water cycle, and the impact of humans on wetland environments.
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