We Learn, We Save, We Win (We3) Education Initiative is a project that links environmental activities and resources from state agencies and businesses to the classroom. The Initiative offers examples of hands-on, project-based lessons for Minnesota classrooms. These lessons will help teachers and students use their classroom and local environment as a "laboratory for systems thinking." Through applying the grade-appropriate concepts and skills across disciplines (with a special focus on science), students will look to their own classroom and local environment in terms of how it impacts, and is impacted by, natural and social systems.
In this activity, students explore a local water ecosystem and discover organisms living in various habitats. Many of these organisms provide food and cover for fish. Each student collects aquatic invertebrates using dip nets and sorts through muck scooped from the lake or creek bottom. Students also use a rake to collect aquatic plant specimens. They'll have the opportunity to sketch the specimens, and to use field guides and identification keys to study and identify the plants and animals. From these sketches, they'll make a pond, stream, or lake discovery book.
To view all of the We3 Education Initiative lessons visit http://eeportal.minnesotaee.org/classrm_f.cfm
Download this lesson at /wp-content/uploads/publications/we3-4.pdf
Water Habitat Site Study Lesson
Posted: September 11, 2019 by MAEE Administration
Category: Sharing Environmental Education Knowledge (SEEK)
We Learn, We Save, We Win (We3) Education Initiative is a project that links environmental activities and resources from state agencies and businesses to the classroom. The Initiative offers examples of hands-on, project-based lessons for Minnesota classrooms. These lessons will help teachers and students use their classroom and local environment as a "laboratory for systems thinking." Through applying the grade-appropriate concepts and skills across disciplines (with a special focus on science), students will look to their own classroom and local environment in terms of how it impacts, and is impacted by, natural and social systems.
In this activity, students explore a local water ecosystem and discover organisms living in various habitats. Many of these organisms provide food and cover for fish. Each student collects aquatic invertebrates using dip nets and sorts through muck scooped from the lake or creek bottom. Students also use a rake to collect aquatic plant specimens. They'll have the opportunity to sketch the specimens, and to use field guides and identification keys to study and identify the plants and animals. From these sketches, they'll make a pond, stream, or lake discovery book.
To view all of the We3 Education Initiative lessons visit http://eeportal.minnesotaee.org/classrm_f.cfm
Download this lesson at /wp-content/uploads/publications/we3-4.pdf