Teaching Resources
Teaching environmental issues in your classroom is a critical component of providing your students a Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience. Discover a wealth Chesapeake Bay related books, multimedia, curriculum guides, individual lesson plans and online data sources.
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> geocaching (GIS/GPS) GLOBE Program Teacher's Guide
Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) is a hands-on international environmental science and education program. GLOBE links students, teachers, and the scientific research community in an effort to learn more about our environment through student data collection and observation. This guide explains how your students will be carrying out a series of investigations that scientists have designed to gather data about the Earth and how it functions as a global system. Chapters cover the atmosphere, hydrology, soil, land cover, GPS and Earth as a system.
Subject(s):
Mathematics, Science
Type(s):
Curriculum Guide
Level(s):
Early Learning, Elementary School, Middle School, High School
Keywords:
land use, geocaching (GIS/GPS)
Storm Drain Stenciling GPS Activity
Help to increase community watershed awareness by stenciling the message "Don't Dump, Chesapeake Bay Drainage" onto storm drains in your neighborhood. Students can use the data sheet below to observe and record the storm drain coordinates while assessing the quality of the storm drain and its surroundings.
Subject(s):
Art, Science, Technology
Type(s):
Lessons and Activities
Level(s):
Elementary School, Middle School, High School
Keywords:
stormwater, water and energy conservation, geocaching (GIS/GPS), schoolyard habitat
Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) Database
This VIMS website provides access to maps of the historic and present distribution of SAV, GIS data and reports on SAV distributions in the Chesapeake Bay and Delmarva Peninsula Coastal Bays.
Subject(s):
Science, Technology
Type(s):
Data
Level(s):
Middle School, High School
Keywords:
aquatic grass SAV, geocaching (GIS/GPS), restoration
Dirty Mud Lesson: Contaminents in the Environment
Students will identify specific types of wetland habitats and land uses in a watershed. They will explain how data on chemical contaminants, land uses and habitat types can be integrated to develop restoration plans for environmental resources damaged by pollution. Then use a geographic information system to retrieve and analyze data about specific benthic marine habitats.
Subject(s):
Mathematics, Science, Technology
Type(s):
Lessons and Activities
Level(s):
High School
Keywords:
pollution, wetland, geocaching (GIS/GPS), sediment, soil and rocks
