You have approximately 12-15 classes to complete these tasks. This includes brainstorming, research and activity completion, project design and completion of your presentation. There may be one or two flex days added for you to complete the project if required. This time may not include the time required to carry out your project. Throughout this page, you will find essential links to help you with the completion of the required tasks. Additional information is provided on the Resources page.
1. Complete the WebQuest Scavenger Hunt:
You will work on your own or with a partner to complete the scavenger hunt. At the end of the lesson, the whole class will go over the results. The purpose of the task is to give you a better idea of what some of the common impacts on aquatic ecosystems are. You can use this information to help think of solutions for your particular actions or issue.
2. Form Project Groups of 3-4:
You can choose to work on your own if you like but will have to complete the whole task by yourself. Create a Google Document for all of your research and ensure that everyone in your group has access to this document by sharing it with them. Use the instructions here to make that document.
3. Optional: Open and save a copy of the SAMPLE Presentation document at the bottom of the Resources page to your own Google Drive Account. This document has all of the information that you need for your presentation already laid out. You can fill in your research on this document and then format it as you like once you are ready.
4. Enter Your Field Study Data:
On your research page, enter the data that you consider to be of most importance to the water quality of our field study site. Include both the data from our study site and a comparison to another study site. Analyze this data and explain what this data tells you about the water at our field study site.
5. Complete Your Research:
Go to the page that relates to the activity that you have chosen as the most impactful on our study site (Agriculture, Energy Projects and Resource Extraction, Urban and Suburban Development). There you will find links to information explaining a bit more about the potential impacts to help you decide what to do for an action project. You will take notes on the links that you use on the research page that you created. You will want to find at least two other sources of information and add these to the research page as well.
6. Brainstorm Project Ideas:
Using the research that you have completed as a guide, brainstorm how you will address the impacts of the activity that you have chosen in the form of an action project. There are some examples of action projects on the Resources page. Include this information on your Research Page.
7.Complete a Project Proposal:
Once you have decided on an action project, you will complete a project proposal, which is located at the bottom of the Resources page, and discuss it with your teacher for approval.
8. Complete a Project Planner:
Complete a project planner, which is located at the bottom of the Resources page, as a group and review this with your teacher.
9. Create a Presentation showing your research and action project plan that includes the following:
- The data that you collected from your field study including highlights of the key findings
- The activities that are upstream of your field site
- How these activities are potentially impacting the field site
- ONE activity that your group considers to have the biggest impact on the ecosystem
- An Action Campaign that addresses these impacts
- A plan to carry out your project
- References used for research
Note: The information that you need to include is highlighted on the SAMPLE Presentation included at the bottom of the Resources page.
10. Carry out your project where possible.
11. Present your project to your classmates.
12. Complete your self evaluation using the project rubric located at the bottom of the Resources page. You are to provide comments and examples to justify your evaluation.
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