Chesapeake Bay Pollution Web-Quest

1. Chesapeake Bay Pollution Web-Quest

2. Table of Contents • Introduction • Task • Directions • Nutrient Pollution • Sediment Pollution • Chemical or Toxic Pollution • How Do We Help the Bay • All Websites • Poster Rubric • Conclusion

3. Introduction • Did you know that all of the water in our stream runs into the Chesapeake Bay? If we pollute the stream, it could affect life in the Bay. • We know that our stream runs into the Codorus Creek, which runs into the Susquehanna River, which runs into the Chesapeake Bay. • Any substance that has an adverse effect on our water is called pollution. • There are three types of pollution: water, air and land. Today we will focus on water pollution. • The three types of water pollution are nutrient, sediment and toxic.

4. Task and Essential Questions • Essential Questions: • How does each water pollution affect the Bay? • How does each water pollution affect what lives in the Bay? • How can we help keep pollution out of the Bay? • Using the websites for each type of water pollution, complete the graphic organizer. • On the back of the graphic organizer, list three activities that “you” can do to help the Bay. • In a group, create a poster persuading your classmates to perform one of the activities that “you” can do to help the Bay.

5. Directions • First, take a look at the graphic organizer. There are three rows. Each has a type of water pollution. • Complete each row at a time. Use any or all of the websites listed on the next three slides to help you fill in the graphic organizer. Websites for each pollution are on different slides. • After completing the graphic organizer, turn to the back. Using the slide “What you can do for the Bay”, choose a website(s) to pick three activities you can do to help prevent or clean up the Chesapeake Bay. Write these activities and why you chose each on the back of your graphic organizer. • Finally, in your group create a poster to persuade your classmates on what they can do for the Bay. Make sure you include… • The activity to help the bay • How you perform the activity • Creativity ( color, neatness, originality, organization) • Persuade other students not in your group to perform the activity

6. Nutrient Pollution Websites • Chesapeake Bay Program • Chesapeake Bay Foundation • Susquehanna River Pollution overview • Chesapeake Bay: Measuring Pollution Reduction • Troubled waters Water pollution(type “local farmers take steps” on search line…video will be titled “local farmers take steps to control pollution) (nutrient and sediment)

7. Sediment Pollution Websites • Chesapeake Bay Program • Chesapeake Bay Foundation • Susquehanna River Pollution overview • The impact of Sediment on the Chesapeake Bay and its Watershed • Troubled waters Water pollution(type “local farmers take steps” on search line…video will be titled “local farmers take steps to control pollution) (nutrient and sediment)

8. Chemical or Toxic Pollution Websites • Chesapeake Bay Program • Chesapeake Bay Foundation • Susquehanna River Pollution overview • The Threat of Toxic Pollution

9. How do We Help the Bay Websites • Chesapeake Bay Foundation: What you can do about it • The threat of Toxic Pollution (use bottom of article)

10. All Websites • Chesapeake Bay Foundation (all pollutants) • Troubled waters Water pollution(type “local farmers take steps” on search line…video will be titled “local farmers take steps to control pollution) (Nutrient and sediment) • Susquehanna River Pollution overview • (All pollutants) • Chesapeake Bay: Measuring Pollution Reduction • (Nutrient pollution) • Susquehanna River: Most Endangered • (Nutrient) • The impact of Sediment on the Chesapeake Bay and its Watershed • (Sediment) • Chesapeake Bay Program • (All pollutants) • The threat of Toxic Pollution • (Toxic and What can we do about it?) • Chesapeake Bay Foundation: What you can do about it • (What can we do about it)

11. Poster Rubric

12. Conclusion • Can you answer the following questions? • How does each water pollution affect the Bay? • How does each water pollution affect what lives in the Bay? • How can we help keep pollution out of the Bay? • If not, go back to your graphic organizer and poster, it will help! • The next time you go to Codorus, fishing at a pond by your house, or even when you drive past a stream, think about how important it is to keep the water clean around you. By completing this assignment, you have already taken a step to help the Chesapeake Bay!!!!!

13. Standards Page • 4.3.7 B. Environmental Health: Describe how human actions affect the health of the environment. • Essential Questions: • (How does each water pollution affect the Bay?) • (How can we help keep pollution out of the Bay?) • 4.8.7 C. Humans and Environment: Explain how human activities affect local, regional and national environments. • Essential Questions • (How does each water pollution affect the Bay?) • (How can we help keep pollution out of the Bay?) • 4.7.7 C. Threatened, diseased and Extinct Species: Explain natural or human actions in relation to the loss of species. • Essential Questions • (How does each water pollution affect what lives in the Bay?)