Stream Creatures: Clues to Stream Health
Stream Creatures: Clues to Stream Health Lesson Plan Time Required: Three 45-minute sessions
Print version of "Stream Creatures: Clues to Stream Health": PDF • Word
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
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
Mathematics
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
English
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
History & Social Science
3.10;
VS.1.b; VS.1.d; VS.1.h;
USI.1.e;
USII.2.b; USII.8.b
Materials
- Macroinvertebrate Fact Sheet PDF • Word
- Schoolyard Stream Simulation Cards PDF • Word
- Schoolyard Stream Simulation Data Sheet PDF • Word
- SOS: Save Our Streams (PPT)
- 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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