Rivers, Lakes, Flooding, Dams, Salmon, Levees, Water Quality Unit

This unit includes 3 Parts and 20+ lessons (50 minutes each) and 53 pages of printable work bundles. The Work Bundles have students fill-in critical notes, conduct exciting hands-on activities, answer questions, interpret graphs, includes games, built-in quizzes, and much more. The work bundles chronologically follow the detailed and interactive set of slideshows. A 20 question quiz game concludes each part for a great review and additional assessment. Answer Keys, materials list, video links, crosswords, built-in quizzes, and much more are provided. Everything you need to run a fantastic learning experience is provided. Everything arrives in editable format if you want add in your own slides and activities, and the slideshows and work bundles can easily be converted into Google Slides / docs for friendly Google Classroom learning.

Part 1 is all about Rivers and Watersheds and includes 6 lessons of about 50 minutes, and a 15 page work bundle that has students fill-in critical notes, conduct exciting hands-on activities, answer questions, complete quizzes, and much more. Students use stream tables with simple materials and identify parts of a river, design a river project, explore watersheds, and much more as they move through the work bundle.

Part 2 Explores Water Quality and works students through a river study with lab report extension if interested. 4 lessons of about 50 minutes and chances to explore and collect data on a local waterway are provided. A 15 page work bundle has students learn and collect data about physical, chemical, and biological features of a river including an extensive section on benthic macroinvertebrates. This is a fantastic section, especially if you have a local stream that you can collect data from.

Part 3 Explores Flooding, Wetlands, Dams and Salmon. 10 lessons of about 50 minutes, and a 26 page work bundle make this a fantastic unit. Fill-in notes, exciting activities, projects, labs and more chronologically follow the slideshow for an amazing learning experience. This section includes the Dam Debate where students choose characters in a fictitious town and write a persuasive speech about a local waterway being dammed up. They explore the positives and negatives of hydroelectric dams and dress up in character for the town meeting. This unit concludes learning about salmon.

Note: This entire unit can be utilized for meaningful and user friendly distance learning. PowerPoint slideshows and work bundles are divided into small manageable daily lessons and can be uploaded to google classroom. Students follow the detailed and fun slideshow, visit video and academic links, explore the built-ins, take quizzes, and much more. They can submit the corresponding document you posted from the work bundle for assessment. Everything arrives editable so you just determine what pieces you want to deliver daily and upload / convert to google classroom.