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Discovering a watershed

Chesapeake Bay Watershed Activity STEM Challenge- Earth Science, Environmental Science, Geography. Discovering a watershed. When water passes by, where does it go?. What is a watershed?. Referred to as drainages or basins Gathering ground of a river system

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Discovering a watershed

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  1. Chesapeake Bay Watershed Activity STEM Challenge- Earth Science, Environmental Science, Geography Discovering a watershed

  2. When water passes by, where does it go?

  3. What is a watershed? • Referred to as drainages or basins • Gathering ground of a river system • Watershed is area of land that drains water into a river • Runoff water or rain or melting snow

  4. There’s a branch in my watershed… • Small streams flowing together create a branching pattern • This pattern is also found in • Trees in winter • Fingers on hands • Veins on leaves • Veins in human body

  5. What does that have to do with Monocacy? • What happens when it rains here? • What happens when snow melts here? • Chesapeake Bay Watershed • Tuscarora Creek • Monocacy River • Potomac River

  6. It’s not just us in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed… • New York • Pennsylvania • Maryland • Deleware • Virginia • West Virginia

  7. What are we sending to the Bay from our watershed?

  8. How can we help? • Mark our drains with signs for Chesapeake Bay Watershed • Pick up trash • Keep farms clean • Keep our river clean • Plants to stop runoff • What else?

  9. Let’s help keep the Bay healthy and happy…

  10. Water, water, watershed… • Parts of a watershed • Headwaters- highest elevation for runoff • Tributary- small stream running into main stream • Main Stream- connecting all the tributaries • Mouth- main stream empties into the Chesapeake Bay

  11. Here’s the challenge… • Each group will create a model of how water flows from the Monocacy River to the Chesapeake Bay • Headwaters • Tributary • Main Stream • Mouth • Tuscurora Creek • Monocacy River • Potomac River • Chesapeake Bay • Winter Water • Count to 3 before passing beads for low flow • Spring Water • Pass beads as fast as you can for spring melt • Summer Water • Pick up beads that drop during flooding to return to normal, pass beads at normal pace • Fall Water • Count to 2 before passing beads to show slowing flow

  12. Take a look at the waters… • White beads are water • Colored beads are pollutants • How many colored beads ended up in the Bay? • How can we stop this? • What season did we have the most runoff? • How can we solve that?

  13. Try this… • Draw a map of the Chesapeake Bay watershed and compare it to the Monocacy River watershed • Write a song or chant to sing during the bead passing activity • Use the engineering design process to build a Dam for the Monocacy to stop the spring water runoff into the Bay • Write a letter to a local Congressman about why we need to keep the Bay water clean • Mud Scientist • Laura Triplett • Laura is an Environmental Geologist-aka Mud Scientist-who studies how people affect the water quality of Minnesota's St. Croix River. Laura really digs her work, collecting layers of muck from the river to see how clear cutting of forests by early settlers and large developments being built today impact the environment.

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