Estuaries 101 Middle School Curriculum - Estuaries NOAA

More documents

Recommendations

Info

Research Question Activities Learning Objectives Estuaries Climate Extension ObjectiveStudents will:• Explore climate change-relatedimpacts to coastalcommunities and• economies through aninteractive game of chance.Estuaries 101 Middle School Curriculum Overview 11Principle 5: Humans, even those living far from the coast, rely on goods and services supplied by estuariesIn what ways do peoplerely on goods andservices supplied byestuaries?Activity 13: Port to PortStudents will participate in a roleplayinggame in which they tradeestuary goods with a ship’scaptain who travels around NorthAmerica, visiting different ports inthe 1800s. Then students willplay a game to examine the valueof estuaries and how humanactivities and decisions affect theestuaries and change their value.Students will understand that:• Estuaries have economic value.• Estuaries also have social and cultural value.• Estuaries can be damaged by human or naturalfactors.• Estuaries can be restored by humans to somedegree.• Climate-related impacts along the coast will shapethe availability of future goods and environmentalservices coming from estuaries. Students will learnthree ways that coastal communities can adapt toand mitigate climate change impacts.Kachemak BayNERR, AKSouth SloughNERR, ORApalachicolaNERR, FLSapelo IslandNERR, GANorth Inlet-WinyahBay NERR, SCChesapeake BayNERR, MDChesapeake BayNERR, VADelawareNERR, DEGreat BayNERR, NHHudson RiverNERR, RIOld Woman CreekNERR, OH
Research Question Activities Learning Objectives Estuaries Climate Extension ObjectivePrinciple 6: Human activities can impact estuaries by degrading water quality or altering habitats; therefore, we are responsible for making decisions to protect and maintain thehealth of estuaries.Estuaries 101 Middle School Curriculum Overview 12How have humans hadan impact on estuaries?How can people act asstewards of the nation’sestuaries?Activity 14: Oil Spill - The Restof the StoryStudents will exhibit theirunderstanding of how non-pointsource water pollution enters theestuaries via the watershed bybuilding a watershed model andusing it to explore surface runoff,demonstrate an understanding ofbest management practices andhow these practices influencekeeping water clean by playing agame of water quality limbo, andpredict possible ways to limit orprevent non-point source waterpollution.Activity 15: Score One for theEstuariesStudents will focus on how theyare all responsible for makingdecisions to protect and maintainthe health of estuaries. Studentsare encouraged to asked: “ Whatcan you do to "score one" for theestuaries?”Students will understand that:• A watershed or drainage basin is an area of land thatdelivers water run-off, sediment, and dissolvedsubstances to surface water bodies such as rivers,lakes, or oceans.• Non-point source water pollution moves through awatershed and accumulates in lakes, oceans, andestuaries.• Polluted runoff can be prevented from getting intowaterways.• Water quality standards are levels of requiredcleanness that are set by State and Federal agenciesto ensure people’s health and give guidance tomaintaining the health of waterways.Students will understand that:• Humans can have both negative and positive impactson the health of estuaries.• Stewardship is a way for people, including youngpeople, to care for or maintain something such as theenvironment, an estuary, or wetlands.• Many people working together, even if they areyoung, can have a big impact on the estuaries andthe wetlands.• There are a variety of stewardship activities that theycan do to help lessen the impacts of climate change.Weeks BayNERR, ALWeeks BayNERR, ALPadilla BayNERR, WANarragansett BayNERR, RIApalachicolaNERR, FLSan FranciscoNERR, CAElkhorn SloughNERR, CASapelo IslandNERR, GANo climate extensionStudents will:• Learn how to mitigate theimpacts of climate changethrough several exampleprojects being implemented atthe National EstuarineResearch Reserves.
Page 1 and 2: Estuaries 101Middle School Curricul
Page 3 and 4: connection between estuaries, coast
Page 5 and 6: • A number of activities include
Page 7 and 8: Research Question Activities Learni
Page 9 and 10: Research Question Activities Learni
Page 11: Research Question Activities Learni

Estuaries 101 Middle School Curriculum - Estuaries NOAA

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?