LibGuides: Wave of Action: Team Week Three

Weekly Theme

This week's theme is human impact on the watershed, with a focus on stewardship in the Catskill region.

Week Three Team Meeting Presentation
This slide presentation is available for you to use during your weekly synchronous team meeting. Clicking this link will prompt you to make a copy of the Google Slides for your own Google Drive. Once you make a copy, share the slides with your students directly from your Google Drive.

Learning Resources

We All Live in a Watershed
This very simple music video illustrates that land use affects water quality in the watershed.
Nature Works - To Make Clean Water
This four-minute video explores the link between land stewardship and clean drinking water.
Kids teaching kids about watersheds!
This 27-minute video was produced by the Watershed Detectives, a year-long watershed education program for students at Bennett Intermediate School of Onteora Central School District, Boiceville. The students explore the physical composition of, possible threats to, and importance of protecting streams and water quality in the Ashokan watershed. The video was supported by Ashokan Watershed Stream Management Program, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County, and the Catskill Watershed Corporation, in cooperation with the NYC DEP.
City on the Water
This 18-minute mini-documentary delves into New York City being surrounded by water and the stewardship efforts underway to help more people realize that.
Watershed Stewardship
The NY State Department of Environmental Conservation recommends these important actions to be stewards of the watershed, no matter where you live!

Pre- or Post-Activity

Today in New York City, we depend upon people who live in the watershed to take good care of the land so that our water quality can be safe. Soon, you will be meeting with students who live in the watershed. They have questions that they want to ask you about where you live or and your relationship to water in your school community. Your teacher will share some of their questions with you, pick one question and prepare how you will respond to it. You can write down what you will tell them, and find or create something to show them that represents your community. For example, you might draw a picture, or if you can go outside safely you could collect something.

Important Vocabulary

erosion— The process of soil and rock being moved from one place to another through natural causes.

filter— A material that cleans liquids that pass through it by removing pollutants.

interception— The process of vegetation keeping precipitation from the soil.

runoff— Water that flows over the surface of the land without evaporating or being absorbed.

sediment— Small particles (such as soil or sand) that are deposited in water or on land.

stewardship— The responsible use and care for natural resources such as water.

transpiration— The process of plants giving off water vapor due to breathing.

Empire State Information Fluency Continuum

We would suggest students use this graphic organizer to organize the main ideas and supporting details of the learning resources they explore this week.

The Empire State Information Fluency Continuum (ESIFC) provides a K-12 framework for teaching information literacy skills in any content area. This framework is based on three Common Core standards that form the basis for the skills and strategies that are essential for students to become independent readers and learners.

The assessments within the framework are all editable to ensure teachers can modify to fit their students' needs. Access the ESIFC and the entire library of assessments here.