Lesson Description:
 Students will be able to …

• Identify and describe the ways humans have an impact water quality.
• Explain the effects of water pollution as it relates to the environment and our personal health.
• Identify possible causes of water pollution.
• Differentiate between the two types of water pollution: point and non-point source pollution.

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Lesson Type:

• Discussion
• Other

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Sustainability Topic:

• Water

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GEF Program Category:

• Sustainable Water Challenge
• Green Energy Challenge

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Standards Addressed:

Technology Standard 3: Understand the relationship among science, technology, society and the individual.

• Benchmark # 5: Understand that technology may affect the environment both negatively and positively (e.g., fertilizers used to help plants to grow may end up in a water supply as a non-point source of water pollution).

Geography Standard 14: Understand how human actions modify the physical environment.

• Benchmark # 1: Know the ways people alter the physical environment (e.g., clearing the land to to make rooms for houses and shopping centers, building roads, planting crops).
• Benchmark # 2: Know the ways in which the physical environment is stressed by human activity (e.g., water and air pollution, expanding human development).

Geography Standard 16: Understand the changes that occur in the meaning, use, distribution and importance of resources.

• Benchmark # 2: Know how settlement patterns are influenced by the discovery and uses of resources (e.g., the growth of industry and cities along major waterways).

Geography Standard 18: Understand global development and environmental issues.

• Benchmark # 2: Know ways in which resources can be managed and why it is important to do so (e.g., identifying and eliminating point sources of water pollution, identifying potential non-point sources of water pollution and taking steps to minimize their impact).

Health Standard 2: Know environmental and external factors that affect individual and community health.

• Benchmark # 1: Know how the physical environment can impact personal health (e.g., the effects of exposure to water pollution).

Language Arts Standard 1: Use the general skills and strategies of the writing process.

• Benchmark # 7: Write expository compositions (e.g., develop the topic with simple facts, details, examples, and explanations, use structures such as cause-and-effect, chronology, similarities and differences).

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Lesson Documents:
Watershed Protection.pdf

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Lesson Documents:
watershedBG.pdf

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Lesson Documents:
WatershedCutOuts.pdf

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