Everyone needs water to survive, and everyone, everywhere, lives in a watershed. Written for high school and middle school teachers and students, this packet will help them easily incorporate the study of watersheds into science classes and into after-school science clubs. Some of the activities include calculating discharge, sampling aquatic invertebrate life, calculating a biotic index for stream organisms, using dissolved oxygen nomograph, and physical monitoring, such as measuring stream depth and velocity. Reproducible data sheets, background information for educators, worksheets, and more are included. Includes information and activities focusing on properties of water, the water cycle, groundwater and surface water, water quality, air pollution, wastewater treatment, and water purification.
Activities involve building equipment to sample the physical and biological aspects of water.
Also contains supplement on aquarium building. Training video available, see below. Youth learn about composting kitchen and yard wastes, and see how they can help to reduce the waste stream. Instructions included for making compost bins, and for activities using compost to teach science concepts. Also contains two posters.