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The Problem:
Your
State Senator and local environmental agencies have come in and personally
asked for your help in saving the
The Task:
There are many things we need to do to
participate in this very important study!
Here is a timeline so you can keep track of
everything we need to do and when we need to have it completed.
1.
Complete water quality tests at
Poplar Creek. You will collect your data and send the results to the Friends of the Fox
River Monitoring Network.
2.
Create a scaled drawing of Poplar
Creek.
3.
Determine locations to collect GPS
data. You will visit these sites, record
your data and send the results to the FOX Map Project.
4.
When all of the project data is
compiled, you will access the data from the entire Fox River Watershed and create
your own map. This map will need to
illustrate water quality, land use, and whatever other information you think is
important.
5.
Analyze your map data and find
correlations between water quality and land use. Record your correlations on the given handout.
6.
Create a final project to
communicate your findings and correlations.
This project should be a public awareness campaign, and can be done
however you choose. Your final project
will be shared with the community, so think how you can make the biggest impact
to save your local watershed! A rubric will be used to grade this project.
Assessment:
Various checklists
and rubrics will be used to evaluate this project.
Resources:
This
resource list contains many sources of information
you need, but are not the only sources available.
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