Wetlands: Here All Year?

Wetlands: Here All Year? Lesson Plan Time Required: Two 45-minute sessions and one session broken up over the course of a day

Print version of "Wetlands: Here All Year?": PDF • Word

Objectives

Students will

read about a variety of wetland habitats,
create models of wetland habitats,
compare and contrast various types of wetlands,
conduct an experiment on a schoolyard puddle and collect data at intervals throughout the day,
analyze the data from the puddle experiment to determine weather's effect on the results,
discuss laws that protect wetlands.

Related Standards of Learning

Science

3.1.a; 3.1.e; 3.1.g; 3.1.h; 3.1.i; 3.1.j; 3.6.a;
4.1.b; 4.1.e; 4.1.d; 4.5.d; 4.6.a; 4.6.b;
5.1.b; 5.1.c; 5.1.d; 5.1.e; 5.1.f; 5.4.c;
6.1.c; 6.1.e; 6.1.h; 6.3.b; 6.7.d

Mathematics

3.12; 3.14.a; 3.15; 3.16; 3.17; 3.21; 3.22;
4.8; 4.11; 4.13; 4.19; 4.20;
5.9; 5.10; 5.18;
6.9; 6.10; 6.11; 6.12; 6.18

English

3.1; 3.4; 3.7; 3.8;
4.1; 4.3;
5.1; 5.4; 5.7;
6.3

History & Social Science

3.10;
VS.1.b; VS.1.d; VS.1.

Materials

Puddle Lab Sheet PDF • Word
several copies of each of the six wetland information sheets on pp. 79–84 of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Schoolyard Habitat Project Guide (see Resources)
1 or more watches
1 or more Celsius thermometers
1 or more meter sticks
calculators, for 5th grade option
sponge, shallow dish just larger than the sponge, and water

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