Lessons, Modules, and Other Classroom Resources

Lessons
 
Project Watershed/ESF-MSTLinks Project
 
Ten Project Watershed teachers under the direction of Bill Beal, retired East Syracuse Minoa High School teacher, investigated the Project Watershed database. Supported by Project Watershed staff and SUNY ESF Educational Outreach, the teachers wrote six lessons for high school students based on real water quality data in a teacher and student guide format and linked to MST Standards. The project was funded for $7500 by the John Ben Snow Foundation in 2002. The six lesson titles are:

• Introduction to the Biotic Water Quality of a Stream (PDF)
• Comparing Current Water Quality Measurements with Past Measurements at a Stream Site (PDF)
• Using a Statistical Procedure to Search a Database for Out of the Ordinary Values (Outliers) (PDF)
• Comparison of Different Methods for Determining Stream Flow at a Stream Site (PDF)
• Examining the Relationship Between Dissolved Oxygen and Water Temperature (PDF)
• How Do Physical Stream Bed Characteristics Affect Water Quality? (PDF)

Lessons Developed or Provided by Don Gates

• Identifying Human-Environment Interactions (PDF)
• Newspaper Scavenger Hunt (PDF)
• River What is Happening? (PDF)
• What's in Your River? (PDF)

Other Resources 

• Project Watershed Vocabulary Words (PDF)
• Aquatic Insects of American Trout Streams - See this site for more help identifying aquatic macroinvertebrates.

Modules
 
Educational Outreach, Office of Educational Outreach, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, NY  13210
(315) 470-4697
 
Water Resource Modules:

• Environmental Analysis of Watersheds (PDF)
• Life in Troubled Waters: Limnology of an Inland Lake
• An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Hudson River Watershed (PDF)
• Wetlands: A Disappearing Natural Resource