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(Recommended for 4th & 5th Grades)
Here is a terrific opportunity for students to combine research with personal field observations! Students assess the life-sustaining components of the stream community, collect macroinvertebrate specimens and trace the flow of energy as it moves through the stream community. An afternoon Teachcam session will aid us as we examine a variety of aquatic organisms and 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:
$15.00 per student ($150 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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