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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> land use Chesapeake Bay FieldScope Activity: The Human Footprint in the Watershed
Students explore how humans have shaped the landscape in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Students work with map layers in the National Geographic's FieldScope tool to consider land development patterns and development trends over time, in order to investigate why people settled where they did.
Subject(s):
Science, Social Studies, Technology
Type(s):
Lessons and Activities, Multimedia, Supplies
Level(s):
Middle School, High School
Keywords:
land use, watershed, development, Geography
Global Water Supply: High School Curriculum
Stand-alone lesson plans are part of larger units that cover a broad scope of subjects including English, science and technology, and social sciences like geography, civics and economics. Classroom activities cover everything from poetry seminars and vocabulary-building worksheets to science and math lessons about potable water availability. Activities are aligned to national standards.
Subject(s):
Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Technology
Type(s):
Curriculum Guide
Level(s):
High School
Aligned with the following standard(s):
National Science Education
Keywords:
pollution, land use, water and energy conservation, renewable resource, water quality, economics, Drinking Water
Project Learning Tree Curriculum Guide
The Project Learning Tree Curriculum Guide is a collection of 96 hands-on interdisciplinary activities that bring the environment into your classroom. The guide is designed so you can use a single activity or many over the course of a quarter or school year. Each activity includes an overview, background content and a teachers' step-by-step guide. The guide's five main themes are diversity, interrelationships, systems, structure and scale, and patterns of change.
Subject(s):
Art, Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Technology
Type(s):
Curriculum Guide
Level(s):
Early Learning, Elementary School, Middle School, High School
Aligned with the following standard(s):
Maryland,
Virginia,
New York,
West Virginia,
District of Columbia,
Delaware,
National Science Education,
Pennsylvania
Keywords:
pollution, land use, watershed, air pollution and fossil fuels, biodiversity, forest
Real World: NASA and the Chesapeake Bay
Learn how NASA uses Earth observing satellites to monitor conditions in the Chesapeake Bay over time. Information about pollution, eutrophication, land cover and watershed runoff helps water managers enact policies to improve the health of the Bay.
Subject(s):
Science, Technology
Type(s):
Multimedia
Level(s):
Elementary School, Middle School, High School
Keywords:
pollution, population growth, land use, watershed, water quality
Chesapeake Bay FieldScope Website
Explore National Geographic's interactive online map of the Chesapeake Bay. Learn about land use by exploring real-time data and interactive map layers. Your class can also conduct stream studies and enter their data online to use some cool analysis tools, and to share data with other schools.
Subject(s):
Science, Social Studies, Technology
Type(s):
Multimedia, Data
Level(s):
Middle School, High School
Keywords:
pollution, population growth, wetland, land use, watershed, agriculture, development, ecosystem and biomes, forest, water quality, water testing
Watershed Puzzle II
Use this virtual watershed puzzle to teach your students about how watersheds are constructed and the pieces that make them up.
Subject(s):
Science, Technology
Type(s):
Lessons and Activities
Level(s):
Middle School
Aligned with the following standard(s):
West Virginia
Keywords:
water cycle and movement, land use, watershed
Investigating Watersheds using Fieldscope Lesson
Learn three different lessons you can teach using National Geographic's Fieldscope tool. Activities include investigating watersheds, water flow patterns and defining your watershed. Through these activities students will learn mapping skills and gain a greater understanding of the links between land and water in the Chesapeake region.
Subject(s):
Science, Social Studies, Technology
Type(s):
Lessons and Activities
Level(s):
Middle School, High School
Keywords:
water cycle and movement, land use, watershed, development, stormwater, experiments and investigations, forest
Rain Storms, Landuse, and Lake Turbidity Lesson
Students will begin to understand the relationships between rainfall, landuse, and turbidity (suspended particulate material) in lakes. Students will identify factors that increase turbidity in lakes and describe and quantify the impacts of major rainfall events on turbidity values in a lake.
Subject(s):
Mathematics, Science, Technology
Type(s):
Lessons and Activities
Level(s):
High School
Keywords:
land use, weather, watershed, stormwater, sediment, soil and rocks, water quality
Mapping a Watershed History Lesson
Students will compare the past and current relationship between people and their watershed using topographic maps and aerial photographs. They will then make proposals for future land development to protect water quality.
Subject(s):
Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, Technology
Type(s):
Lessons and Activities
Level(s):
Elementary School, Middle School
Aligned with the following standard(s):
Virginia
Keywords:
land use, watershed, development, culture and watermen
Discover a Watershed: The Watershed Manager Educators Guide
This Project WET publication, is a 193-page guide that contains 19 science-based, multidisciplinary activities that teach what a watershed is, how it works, and why we must all consider ourselves watershed managers. An extensive background section introduces readers to fundamental watershed concepts. Each activity adapts to your local watershed, contains e-links for further internet research, and is correlated to the National Standards for Science.
Subject(s):
Art, Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Technology
Type(s):
Books and Publications
Level(s):
Elementary School, Middle School
Aligned with the following standard(s):
National Science Education
Keywords:
pollution, wetland, land use, watershed, stormwater, water quality
