Students will work with their collaborating partners to refine their study and techniques, in order to elevate the reliability of their data. The water quality monitoring activities include physical, biological, and chemical parameters. Students observe the variation in solubility of oxygen in water of differing temperature and salinity. They investigate how oxygen is supplied to estuarine waters through abiotic and biotic methods. They analyze existing data and compare their results to their predictions.
Students create a report that analyzes the process used and the data gathered.
They will relate that data to problems that exist in their local watershed. The report will be submitted to the network and their watershed coordinator for review. Students share what they have learned with their community by creating a presentation for a selected audience. Shows all the activites in the Level II curriculum. Students will discover the relationship between upstream influences in their watershed and their watershed's estuary.