7th Grade Week One March 25th - April 1st

Hello 7th Graders!!

We will begin Level 3 of our "Water Connects Us All" unit. This level focuses on Water Issues in our local area.

Print the Science attachment from the Wednesday email, or find the hard copy of the science packet in your bag picked up Wednesday afternoon. 

Day One:
The first thing we need to do is find out, What is a watershed? You all know we live in a water shed :0).  Follow the links to the two YouTube videos to help you understand. You can also click below as you follow along on your sheet. 

1. What is a Watershed?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOrVotzBNto

2. Watersheds!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pwW2rlGIa8

3. Next locate our Watershed using the maps of Iowa. 

4. Using the following links to learn more about whats going on with our water with our shed. Is it clean, polluted, impaired?? 

 

How’s My Waterway?

https://watersgeo.epa.gov/mywaterway/gtext.html?p=About%2520this%2520site&a=&d=d/g

Pollution Categories Summary

https://watersgeo.epa.gov/mywaterway/docs/HMWPollutionCategories.pdf

Impaired Waters and TMDLs Progam in your EPA Region

https://www.epa.gov/tmdl/impaired-waters-and-tmdls-program-your-epa-region-state-or-tribal-land

Iowa TMDLs

https://ofmpub.epa.gov/waters10/attains_impaired_waters.tmdls?p_state=IA

Day 2 and 3:

Once you have researched our water shed create a poster that includes as much information as possible about the water quality and reasons for the quality in our area. 

Day 4:

Select TWO articles from the links below you find interesting.... these articles deal with current problems/issues we are experiencing in our water shed. Print, read, and highlight important information. 

 

Elementary level site on causes of water pollution, 10 pt. Quiz included.

https://www.ducksters.com/science/environment/water_pollution.php (lowest reading level)

Iowa DNR - Watershed Basics

Iowa Water Pollution - Iowa State University- Downloadable book by Iowa Association of Naturalists.

“Causes of Water Pollution” written by Rinkesh Kukreja, In January 2017, acknowledged as one of the World’s Top Eco-Conscious Bloggers by Above Green.

“Causes/Effects of Groundwater Pollution” by Rinkesh Kukreja

https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/causes-effects-solutions-groundwater-pollution.php

“5 Most Common Sources of Water Pollution”  Written by Terry Reeh, EcoWater Systems of Nebraska, 25 yrs experience in residential and commercial water treatment

https://ecowaternebraska.com/blog/the-5-most-common-sources-of-water-pollution

EPA: “The Facts about Nutrient Pollution”  May, 2012

TheGuardian “Corn farming in the midwest heavily taxes water resources and supply”

Written by Peyton Fleming is a senior director at Ceres, a nonprofit organization mobilizing business leadership on global sustainability challenges.  June 2014

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/jun/23/corn-farming-midwest-water-pollution-nitrates-scarcity

MPR - “Iowa farmers won water pollution court fight; water still polluted”  April, 2017 https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/04/25/ag-wins-water-runoff-fight-pollution-question-lingers

National Geographic - “The Simple River- Cleaning Tactics that Big Farms Ignore”

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/12/iowa-agriculture-runoff-water-pollution-environment/

Day 5:

Complete the issue Analysis Web over ONE of the articles you read during day 4.