Students create species cards to share what they learned about the species they investigated during their All My Watershed Neighbors Watershed Experience. Cards include key identification characteristics, food chain diagrams, critical adaptations, and interactions with other species, including humans. The resulting book of species cards can be used to help raise awareness of the watershed …
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Oh Deer: Resource needs of plants & animals
In this active and competitive game, students experience how communities of animals and plants change over time in response to the availability of resources in their habitat. Students collect data during the game and then graph and analyze how predators, primary consumers, resource limitations, and competition for resources can impact species.
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All My Watershed Neighbors
What species live in my neighborhood? Students investigate the species that live within their local watershed habitats and the resources that those species (and they) need.
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Be a Watershed
To introduce watershed concepts, students will become a watershed and experience firsthand its interconnectedness, and how water flows from lake to stream to river to ocean. Students will work together to create/become different watershed features. This activity will give students basic watershed knowledge before moving forward to discuss how watersheds are influenced by outside sources …
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