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Hydrology and the Water Cycle Student learn about the water cycle and how it is linked to the ecosystem. Students construct their own model scale watershed. |
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Revisit the Lake Profile: Field Expedition #2 Students return to Echo Lake to document how the lake system has changed with the onset of winter. |
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Revisit Pond Water Popsicles: Microbes in Winter! With samples collected from their second field trip to Echo Lake, students will “field test” their hypotheses and conclusions from the experiments they conducted in Lesson Plan 2. |
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Synthesis: Connecting the dots
Students draw conclusions from their cumulative dataset with “round-table” discussions on the human impact on Echo Lake and relate their new insight to global system. |
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Lesson Plan 5 (pdf) |
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Lesson Plan 6 (pdf) |
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Lesson Plan 7 (pdf) |
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Introduction to the Ecosystem: Lake profile Students get acquainted with Echo Lake in Plymouth, Vermont. Students learn about the ecology of a freshwater aquatic system while making field observations and collecting environmental data. |
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Pond Water Popsicles In this lesson plan, students will discover microbial cells in nature. They will develop hypotheses about microbial survival under freezing conditions. In Lesson Plan 6 they will test their hypotheses in the natural environment. |
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Teachers, click on the Globe for a detailed summary of what the RedParka curriculum offers, and a list of science standards met by each lesson plan. |
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Explore your Backyard! |
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