Students build a watershed model to define what a watershed is, identify the different parts within a watershed, and discover how water moves within a watershed. After learning Best Management Practices and mitigation techniques, students rebuild their models.
Learning Goals
The students will be able to: ● Define a watershed as, "an area of land that drains to a particular body of water,” and identify the natural and human components of a typical watershed. ● Students co
Standard: Use computational tools to illustrate the relationships among management of natural resources, the sustainability of human populations, and biodiversity.
Standard: Create a computational simulation to illustrate the relationships among management of natural resources, the sustainability of human populations, and biodiversity. [Clarification Statement: Examples of factors that affect the management of natural resources include costs of resource extraction and waste management, per-capita consumption, and the development of new technologies. Examples of factors that affect human sustainability include agricultural efficiency, levels of conservation, and urban planning.] [Assessment Boundary: Assessment for computational simulations is limited to using provided multi-parameter programs or constructing simplified spreadsheet calculations.]
Nebraska's College and Career Ready Standards for Science
Grades 9-12
Learning Domain: Earth and Space Sciences
Standard: Create a computational simulation to illustrate the relationships among management of natural resources, the sustainability of human populations, and biodiversity.
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