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Forum Sem1a - Establishing Knowledge on Watersheds

9/16/2022

5 Comments

 
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Office of Water Prediction, https://water.noaa.gov/map 

Using the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Water Prediction map students should identify the closest stream to your own home. Once you have found that, you should use the map to try and trace the route that water from that stream would take all the way to a sea, ocean, or gulf. (For example: Elkhorn River into Platte River, into the Missouri River, to the Mississippi River, to the Gulf of Mexico
). For more information on watersheds, drainage basins, and how water moves through streams use the Watersheds and Drainage Basins website (https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/science/watersheds-and-drainage-basins) put together as part of the Water Science School of the USGS.


Once you have completed your downstream trace, you will group up with other students who had the same closest stream and check each other’s work to ensure you all came up with the same pathway. 

Once all groups are complete, we will work as a full group to discuss the following questions
  1. Describe the route that water from your own community takes once it moves downstream. 
  2. Predict: Why is this type of information important to know when trying to understand stream health and water quality?
Lesson Objectives:
  • Students can identify the closest stream  in their community and its downstream locations. 
  • ​​​Students can describe the process through which trash and other pollutants can have a negative impact on stream health
  • Students can explain the degree to which  conservation efforts can have on impacting stream health.

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5 Comments
Bea
10/24/2022 07:56:18 am

-Elmwood Creek to the Papillion Creek to the Missouri River to the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico
-water from places across the world's land will almost always end up in the ocean
-polluting a local water source will pollute all the water sources that it feeds
-your pollution can ruin the water of people down stream

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Ella J
10/24/2022 07:58:02 am

The water in my community ends up connecting to papio creeks and then to the Missouri, then the Mississippi River which goes to the Gulf of Mexico. The things we let get into the water near us can get all the way throughout the water systems it connects to.

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sims
10/24/2022 07:58:08 am

hell creek - goes to the missouri
it’s important to know where it goes because even if it’s a small little bit of water pollution can pollute a bigger water source

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ella h
10/24/2022 08:40:54 am

- fricke creek
starts at hickory hill park, goes to papillion creek then to missouri river
- because if one creek gets contaminated then the other bigger water sources get contaminated

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stella
10/24/2022 12:44:14 pm

-elm wood creek
-papillon creek
-Missouri river
-mississippi river
-gulf of mexico

Know that what you do still impacts the ocean!

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