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(Recommended for 4th & 5th Grades)
Combine research with personal field observations! Students assess the life-sustaining components of the stream community, collect macroinvertebrate speciments, and trace the flow of energy. An afternoon TeachCam session, allows students to examine a variety of aquatic organisms, and identify the special features which help them to survive.
Meets PDE Academic Standards: See list below!
Schedule:
2 hour morning lesson
lunch break
1.5 hour learning and activity stations
Wrap-up
Fee:
$16 per student ($160 minimum fee per class)
Please contact Trudy today by email (tphillips@perkiomenwatershed.org) or phone (610.287.9383) for more information and to register your students for this exciting program!
What the teachers are saying:
Thank you for a day of learning in the real world! It is obvious that the leaders are knowledgeable and have a love for children! Hopefully their passion to care for our environment will be something students will pick up as foremost today.
- 5th Grade Teacher, West Broad Street Elementary
The program fit perfectly with our curriculum! The students loved the hands-on activities. This was a great learning experience!
- 5th Grade Teacher, West Broad Street Elementary
My students said it was the best field trip ever!
- 5th Grade Teacher, Lower Salford Elementary
What the students are saying:
I loved how you did the activity with us before we went in the stream. It opened up a world of understanding to me. I love how you are using your time and making an effort to save the environment. It shows. It was cool how we got to take a closer look at our world through the microscope. I understand how a mayfly nymph breathes through his abdomen because of that. Please keep doing this for many more years to come - it's worth it.
5th Grade Student, Lower Salford Elementary
PDE Academic Standards covered by this lesson include:
3.2.7A: Answer “What if” questions based on observation, inference or prior knowledge or experience.
3.3.4B: Determine how different parts of a living thing work together to make the organism function.
3.5.4D: Recognize the earth’s different water resources.
· Know that approximately three-fourths of the earth is covered by water.
· Identify and describe types of fresh and salt-water bodies.
· Identify examples of water in the form of solid, liquid and gas on or near the surface of the earth.
· Explain and illustrate evaporation and condensation.
· Recognize other resources available from water (e.g., energy, transportation, minerals, food).
4.1.4.C: Identify living things found in water environments.
· Identify fish, insects and amphibians that are found in fresh water.
· Identify plants found in fresh water.
4.1.4.D: Identify a wetland and the plants and animals found there.
· Identify different kinds of wetlands.
· Identify plants and animals found in wetlands.
· Explain wetlands as habitats for plants and animals.
4.1.7.D: Explain and describe characteristics of a wetland.
· Identify specific characteristics of wetland plants and soils.
· Recognize the common types of plants and animals.
· Describe different types of wetlands.
· Describe the different functions of a wetland.
4.1.7E: Describe the impact of watersheds and wetlands on people.
· Explain the impact of watersheds and wetlands in flood control, wildlife habitats and pollution abatement.
· Explain the influence of flooding on wetlands.
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