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Urban Water Sheds and Brownfields:
Case Study: Nine Mile Run Watershed
Title
Page (103k)
Table
of Contents (105k)
Introduction
(254k)
Module 1: Watershed
Introducing a watershed. Students experience and learn about how
a watershed boundary is created.
1.1
Handland (550k)
1.2
What is in the watershed?(250k)
1.3
Handland Painting (330k)
Appendix 1A: The Water Cycle (60k)
Appendix 1B: Topographic Map (205k)
Glossary 1 (100k)
Module 2: Water
Cycle and Watershed Interaction
In a watershed, precipitation causes a change on and in the land
over a long period of time. Human impact also plays a role in the
change.
2.1 The Sand-Land Model (450k)
2.2 Eek! an underground leak! (260k)
Appendix
2A: Storm-water Sources and Solutions (284k)
Glossary (70k)
Module 3: Stream
Environment
This module guides students to an actual stream environment. They
uses a field book to record their observation and discussion about
benthic organisms, water testing, stream health, and human impact.
3.1 Not a Field Trip, a stream Trip (211k)
3.2
Flip Rocks! / Benthic Organisms (251k)
3.3 Water Chemistry (211k)
Appendix 3A: Field Book (534k)
Appendix 3B: Scientific Classification of Organisms (178k)
Appendix 3C: Benthic Macroinvertebrates (94k)
Appendix 3D: Basic Water Analysis (117k)
Glossary (76k)
Module 4: Brownfields
to Greenfields
Students compare natural processes to manmade processes of rock
formation. They are introduced to brownfields and how to vegetate
a brownfield. Students learn about plant succession and its relationship
to the soil.
4.1 Who made this rock? (640k)
4.2 Restoring Land (430k)
Appendix
4A: Natural Process and Industrial Process (909k)
Appendix 4B: The History of Nine Mile Run (947k)
Appendix 4C: Slag and Soil Remediation (185k)
Appendix 4D: Succession (2.6mb)
Glossary (80k)
Module 5: Artifacts
of a Watershed
An artistic assessment by students after they have had much experience
with watersheds. The artwork could be created individually or collaboratively.
Intro: (157k)
5.1:
Colors in Nature (233k)
5.2
Memories of a Watershed (223k)
5.3 A Model of a Watershed (224k)
Appendix 5A : Collage, Assemblage and Mixed media (321k)
Appendix 5B: Ecosystem Restoration, Restoration Art, Discursive
Democracy (196k)
Glossary
(90k)
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