Time
Required: Three 45-minute sessions
Objectives
Students will
- study
the adaptations of some macroinvertebrates that enable them to spend
part or all of their life cycle in a stream ecosystem
- compare
the role of herbivores, carnivores, detritivores, and omnivores and
note the interdependence of plants and animals in a stream
- observe
the effects of erosion and other pollution on stream macroinvertebrates
and infer pollution’s effects on the entire Chesapeake Bay
watershed
- collect
information from fact sheets and guidebooks and use a classification
key to identify macroinvertebrates
- analyze
and graph data from a stream-monitoring simulation.
Related
Standards of Learning
| Science |
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3.1.g;
3.1.j; 3.5.b; 3.5.c; 3.6.a; 3.8.b; 3.10.a; 3.10.b; 3.10.c;
4.1.a;
4.5.a; 4.5.e; 4.5.f; 4.8.a;
5.1.a; 5.1.e; 5.5.d; 5.7.e; 5.7.f;
6.1.a; 6.1.b; 6.1.h; 6.5.c; 6.5.g; 6.7.g |
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| Mathematics |
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3.5;
3.7; 3.21; 3.22;
4.2; 4.3; 4.4; 4.20;
5.1.a; 5.2.a; 5.18;
6.4;
6.8; 6.18 |
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| English |
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3.1;
3.2; 3.4; 3.6; 3.7; 3.10;
4.1; 4.2; 4.3; 4.5; 4.6; 4.7.a; 4.7.c;
4.7.f; 4.8;
5.1; 5.4; 5.6; 5.7; 5.8;
6.2; 6.3; 6.5 |
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| History & Social
Science |
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3.10;
VS.1.b; VS.1.d; VS.1.h;
USI.1.e;
USII.2.b; USII.8.b |
Materials
- SOS:
Save Our Streams (PowerPoint presentation)
- computer with large monitor or projection device
- Internet
access
- enlarged
picture of each of the macroinvertebrates online at The
Stream Study (see Resources)
- self-stick
notes
- calculators
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each student: |
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