The Indoor River Book: The Complete Guide of Integrated Activities for Building and Maintaining a Model Watershed in Your Classroom - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0787236020 ISBN 13: 9780787236021

Publisher: Kendall Hunt Pub Co, 2001

Synopsis

This first-of-its-kind guide is a simple step-by-step teacher's guide for building an indoor aquatic habitat modeled after the local watershed. For grades 4 and up, includes lists of materials and activities across the curriculum--science, math, social studies, language arts, creative arts, and design technology. Adaptable for teachers with little or no experience conducting an environmental/community-based activity in school. Includes diagrams, illustrations, and photos of the process.

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From the Back Cover

"This has been an extremely useful interdisciplinary teaching tool both within subject areas--such as the sciences--and between subjects. Because this is a long-term project, the excitement continues: We tie it into field trips, for example, where students will notice something in the natural environment and say, 'Oh yeah! We saw that in our system in the classroom.' With the indoor river, they can relate outdoor observations to an indoor example. My students are very jazzed to have a living stream in their classroom!" --Steven Hinshaw, multi-age 6th-8th Grade Teacher, Essex Middle School, Essex, Vermont "Having an indoor river has helped students see the interconnections in the local ecosystem because they learn what resides in our watershed, where it originates, where it goes to, and how local uses of the watershed can affect other portions of the environment both within and outside the river."--Cheryl Ollmann, 3rd-4th Grade Teacher at Waits River Valley School, East Corinth, Vermont

Edition details

• Publisher: Kendall Hunt Pub Co
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0787236020
• ISBN 13: 9780787236021
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 136