page 35 of the UWP Educator’s Guide to Teaching Students About the Upper Uncompahgre River Watershed (also see contents, introduction & pdf link)
Answer this Essential Question: Is our watershed healthy? Why or why not?
Now that you’ve mastered watershed vocabulary, reviewed maps of our local watershed, gathered data in multiple locations and reviewed how to compile that data, it’s time to summarize your findings.
You will make a Google slide presentation answering the questions “Is our watershed healthy? Why or why not?” by incorporating information from all 4 experiences. Treat this like a detailed CER! You need to:
- Make a claim (answer the question)
- Use evidence from YOUR findings to support your claim
- Provide scientific reasoning why this is true.
| Experience | Description | Points Available | Points Earned | |
| MAPS | Where is our watershed? Where do we see human impact along the watershed? | 10 | ||
| VOCABULARY | Define each of the watershed vocabulary terms in class and use a minimum of 5 of them in the presentation. | 10 | ||
| DATA | Summarize data from each of the 4 sites, the water treatment facility, and experiences in class using graphs, tables, and written summaries. | 10 | ||
| WATER QUALITY & INVERTEBRATES | How did human impact (development, mining, agriculture, population) affect the water at each of the 4 sites? Is the river healthy? | 10 | ||
| REFLECTION | Reflect on the experiences from the week. What did you learn about water science and how does it apply to other parts of your life? What did you learn about yourself? | 10 | ||
