Teacher Notes Teacher Presentation
1.1: The Water Cycle Student Information

1.2: Introduction to Rivers Earth Science Student Information

1.3: Keeping a Journal Student Activity

1.4: It's All Relative Student Information

1.5: Safety Guidelines and Contract Student Activity

1.6: Using Your Journal at the Stream

LESSON 2 The Coordinate System and Topographic Maps

Teacher Notes Student Activity
2.1: X Marks the Spot! Student Information

2.2: The Coordinate System Student Activity

2.3: Where Are You? Student Activity

2.4: It's a Crumbled World! Student Information

2.5: Rules for Topographic Maps Student Assessment

2.6: Using a Topographic Map

LESSON 3 Identifying Your Watershed

Teacher Notes Student Activity
3.1: Putting Your River or Stream on the Map Student Information

3.2: What Is a Watershed? Student Activity

3.3: Exploring Your Watershed Student Activity

3.4: Determining the Profile of a Watershed Student Assessment

3.5: How Big Is Your Watershed?

LESSON 4 Climate and Your River or Stream

Teacher Notes Student Information
4.1: Climate, Weather, and the Field Site Student Activity

4.2: The Effects of Precipitation on River and Stream Flow Student Activity

4.3: Researching Field Site Precipitation and Temperature Patterns

LESSON 5 Stream and River Flow

Teacher Notes Student Information
5.1: The Effect of Slope and Base Level on Flow Rate Student Activity

5.2: Determining Slope and Base Level Student Activity

5.3: Determining the Flow of a River or Stream

LESSON 6 How Streams and Rivers Move Earth

Teacher Notes Student Activity
6.1: Building a Stream Student Information

6.2: What Is Erosion? Student Information

6.3: What Is Transportation? Student Information

6.4: What Is Deposition? Student Activity

6.5: How Old Are You, Mr. Stream? Student Assessment

6.6: Applying the Erosional-Depositional System Student Activity

6.7: Puzzling Out the Erosion Process

LESSON 7 Measuring the Impacts of Erosion, Transportation, and Deposition

Teacher Notes Student Information
7.1: What Is Turbidity? Student Information

7.2: How Can Turbidity Be Measured? Student Activity

7.3: Measuring the Turbidity of a River or Stream Student Activity

7.4: Measuring Total Solids in a River or Stream Student Assessment

7.5: Analyzing Erosion and Deposition at the Stream

LESSON 8 The Geology and pH of a River or Stream

Teacher Notes Student Information
8.1: Rocks Speak Student Information

8.2: Rock Time, Rock Maps, and the Stream Student Activity

8.3: Using Geologic and Quaternary Maps Student Information

8.4: The pH of the Stream Student Activity

8.5: Exploring the Effect of Bedrock Type on Stream pH Student Activity

8.6: Exploring the Hardness of River or Stream Water

LESSON 9 Human-Stream Relationships

Teacher Notes Student Information
9.1: Considering Human-Stream Relationships Student Activity

9.2: Envisioning Floods and floodplains Student Information

9.3: Components of a Habitat Assessment Student Activity

9.4: Completing a Habitat Assessment Student Assessment

9.5: Assessing Human Influence on a Local Stream

APPENDIX A Assessments

Teacher Notes for Assessments
Student Assessment: Portfolio Student Assessment: Rivers Earth Science: Multiple-Choice Assessment Challenge Project: Telecommunications

LESSON 1 The Hydrologic Cycle

LESSON 2 The Coordinate System and Topographic Maps

LESSON 3 Identifying Your Watershed

LESSON 4 Climate and Your River or Stream

LESSON 5 Stream and River Flow

LESSON 6 How Streams and Rivers Move Earth

LESSON 7 Measuring the Impacts of Erosion, Transportation, and Deposition

LESSON 8 The Geology and pH of a River or Stream

LESSON 9 Human-Stream Relationships

APPENDIX A Assessments

APPENDIX B Answers

APPENDIX C Resources

APPENDIX D Determining the Legal Description of a Site

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