Activity Description of "We All Live Downstream"
| Title | We All Live Downstream |
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| Abstract | To understand how land use influences water quality, students are asked to represent how a section of riverfront property would be used if given one million dollars. They develop a description of the property, the land use, and an explanation of why the particular use/developement plan was chose. They also predict how their development will affect their neighbors and analyze the impact of its develpment on water quality. |
| Author | Alonda Droege |
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| Unifying Concept | Systems, order and organization |
| Science and Technology | Understandings about science and technology |
| Science as Inquiry | |
| History and Nature of Science | |
| Science in Personal and Social Perspectives | Natural resources, Environmental quality, Natural and human induced hazards |
| Life, Physical, Earth Sciences | Interdependence of organisms |
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