Watershed Contributions
Students participate in a simulation activity as landowners and create their own ideal waterfront property. Students will experience how it feels to live downstream from pollutants. Students will recognize that everyone contributes to and is responsible for our shared water. Students will identify ways to reduce water pollution and discuss how they could redesign their property’s development with care for the watershed and future generations in mind.
Watershed Contributions Lesson Plan
Location: Long bench in the forest with canopy
Grades: 3-4
Objectives: Students participate in a simulation activity as landowners who develop their dream waterfront property. Through this role playing activity, students demonstrate how everyone contributes to the pollution of a river as it flows through a watershed and recognize that everyone’s contribution can be reduced through innovative solutions. Students will identify ways they could redesign their property with care for the watershed and future generations in mind.
Learning Standards:
ESE Standard 1: Ecological, Social, and Economic Systems
ESE Standard 2: The Natural and Built Environment
ESE Standard 3: Sustainability and Civic Responsibility
Materials: Sections of laminated river pieces, clipboards, dry erase pens, examples sketches, poker chips
Lesson Updates
Consider removing having students pair up by numbers, and just have them pick a partner to stand across from to form the river and share their idea
Lesson Demonstration Video
