Description
An activity that demonstrates what watersheds and catchment areas are while allowing students to see how water travels within local watersheds. This activity aims to give a holistic look at our local water systems and how they fit within the greater landscape, by District as well as Provincially. It will increase students’ understanding of how vitally connected our water systems are and emphasize that their actions do have an impact on others downstream.
Ontario Curriculum Connections
Science and Technology
Understanding Life Systems, Grade 4 (Habitats and Communities)
- analyze the positive and negative impacts of human interactions with natural habitats and communities, taking different perspectives into account, and evaluate ways of minimizing the negative impacts.
UnderstandingEarthandSpaceSystems,Grade5 (Conservation of Energy and Resources)
- analyze the long-term impacts on society and the environment of human uses of energy and natural resources, and suggest ways to reduce these impacts.
Social Studies
People and Environments,Grade5(The Role of Government and Responsible Citizenship)
- assess the effectiveness of actions taken by one or more levels of government to address an issue of national, provincial/territorial, and/or local significance (e.g. the effectiveness of policies related to the management of the Great Lakes)
- describe some different ways in which citizens can take action to address social and environmental issues.
