Educational
Resources and Lesson Plans
Flood Resource Center Project at Northampton Community College - The Flood Resource Center Web site is sponsored by the Student Leadership Program at Northampton Community College to provide access to community resources created through service learning projects. These projects began in 2007 with funding provided by the State Farm Insurance Youth Advisory Board. They partnered with community and business groups and created the following projects: Delaware River Flood Museum Pilot Exhibits (a set of sample exhibits for the new museum in Easton); 8th Grade Stormwater Curriculum (a three week unit on problem-solving using Best Management Practices for decreasing runoff from residential, civic and commercial development); Flood Man and the Floodkateers (a whimsical video for elementary age children highlighting what families can do to prepare for and respond to local floods); and the Monroe Campus Rain Garden (a model of sustainable stormwater management).
Voluntary
Minimal Lawn Chemicals Campaign - This project was designed
to accomplish two things: educational outreach and stormwater sampling.
A free packet of information is available on how to conduct a local educational
outreach campaign to reduce lawn chemical use in your watershed. This campaign
was conducted by the Alliance for a Sustainable Future, in cooperation with
the Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association, Temple University, and the
Philadelphia Water Department.
Adopt-A-Buffer
Toolkit - The Delaware Riverkeeper Network has developed a
new guidance tool to monitor and maintain stream restoration projects.
LaMotte
Lesson Plans
- These plans, designed to be used with LaMotte test kits, help organize
an existing curriculum, allowing teachers to spend more time on hands-on
activities that meet key classroom learning objectives and improve student
achievement.
World
Water Monitoring Day Resources - A number of materials were developed in celebration of this annual global
event.
Watershed
Education (WE)
- This educational program for students and teachers in grades 6-12 promotes
classroom and field research, hands-on ecological investigations, networking,
partnerships, stewardship and community service in an effort to produce
environmentally literate citizens. WE is a program of the Pennsylvania Department
of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR), Bureau of State Parks.
Materials and Instructional
Aids on SEEDS - The publications, activity guides, audiovisuals,
projects and programs featured here are designed to focus on how the environment
and humans interrelate. SEEDS, or "The State's Environmental
Education Directory WebSite," is a product of
the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
Stroud Water Research
Center's Leaf Pack Network - This pilot project involves groups
of teachers and students investigating local stream ecology. The shared
data will shed light on the important connection between streamside forests
and the ecology of rivers and streams.
Water
What-Ifs - This web site was designed to be a teaching and learning
tool for teachers as well as students, and encourages inquiry investigations
of water quality in Delaware. Lesson plans are provided for pH, temperature,
dissolved oxygen, nitrates/phosphates, and macroinvertebrate surveys. You
also can view water quality data collected by Delaware students.
New Jersey
WATERS: A Watershed
Approach to Teaching the Ecology of Regional Systems
- This guide for middle and high school educators is published
by the New Jersey Audubon Society.
Earth Science
Classroom Lesson Plans on Ground Water and Surface Water*-
Distributed by the New Jersey Geological Survey and the New Jersey Department
of Environmental Protection.
Bibliography for the Delaware Watershed
- Prepared by the Delaware Canal (Pa.) State Park's Environmental Education
Division.
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