Watersheds

=**Watersheds and Google Earth**=
 * Back to Project Exemplars**

· Tributaries and small water sheds play a major role in how they flow into larger watersheds · Pollution is small watersheds like a small creek can impact the larger watersheds like the Delaware River and/or the Atlantic Ocean · All watersheds are interconnected · We impact all watersheds, and all watersheds impact us
 * Big Ideas:**

What is a watershed? Why are watersheds important to you? How are watersheds different from others? How are they alike? How does one watershed impact another watershed? How are people and watersheds impacted by each other?
 * Essential Questions**

Rubric- (How can the students make true connections to the big ideas? What format can you evaluate them on?)
 * Assessment** :

In groups of 3, students will create a Google earth project. They will be assigned one of the three rivers in PA:
 * Learning Activities**
 * 1) Ohio
 * 2) Susquehanna
 * 3) Delaware

__Students will label the following:__
 * 1) Label and identify the major tributaries of a major watershed in PA
 * 2) Trace the path of these tributaries from it’s beginning and it’s end to see where they dump into the Atlantic or Gulf.
 * 3) Label with text and a photo on each tributary you find, indicating a negative impact on that tributary AND a solution to how people (YOU) can help protect/care for that tributary
 * 4) Present as a group to the class
 * 5) Present to grade level-