Billy Helprin on Water Quality

Overview:

In the Floating Classroom fieldtrip, the Somes Meynell Wildlife Refuge and Acadia National Park partner together to bring students to local freshwater lakes and ponds and investigate local water quality. Seventh grade students examine the water pH, dissolved oxygen, plankton, and more. These videos can be great for review or supplement understanding for students.

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Essential Question

What is a watershed and why is it important?

How do we learn about and protect watersheds?

Objective

Students will be able to define what a watershed is.
Students will be able to explain why a watershed is important.
Students will be able to read and share science material.
Students will be able to measure and define the aspects of a healthy watershed.

 

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  Floating Classroom: Introduction

  These videos compliment the variety of water quality programs that occur in Acadia National Park. For teachers looking for good background information on water quality or those looking to attend the Floating Classroom field trip, this provides a variety of pre knowledge appropriate for teacher background or students in a classroom.

  Duration:

  3 minutes, 37 seconds

 

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  Floating Classroom: Graphing

  These videos compliment the variety of water quality programs that occur in Acadia National Park. For teachers looking for good background information on water quality or those looking to attend the Floating Classroom field trip, this provides a variety of pre knowledge appropriate for teacher background or students in a classroom. In this video graphing your collected data to interpret

  Duration:

  4 minutes, 16 seconds

 

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  Floating Classroom: Good Data

  These videos compliment the variety of water quality programs that occur in Acadia National Park. For teachers looking for good background information on water quality or those looking to attend the Floating Classroom field trip, this provides a variety of pre knowledge appropriate for teacher background or students in a classroom. In this video, the idea of collecting good data is explored.

  Duration:

  4 minutes, 48 seconds

 

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  Floating Classroom: Graphing

  These videos compliment the variety of water quality programs that occur in Acadia National Park. For teachers looking for good background information on water quality or those looking to attend the Floating Classroom field trip, this provides a variety of pre knowledge appropriate for teacher background or students in a classroom. In this video graphing your collected data to interpret

  Duration:

  4 minutes, 16 seconds

 

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  Floating Classroom: Vegetative Cover

  These videos compliment the variety of water quality programs that occur in Acadia National Park. For teachers looking for good background information on water quality or those looking to attend the Floating Classroom field trip, this provides a variety of pre knowledge appropriate for teacher background or students in a classroom. Explore how vegetation impacts water movement over the environment.

  Duration:

  1 minute, 14 seconds

 

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  Floating Classroom: Tarp Demonstration

  These videos compliment the variety of water quality programs that occur in Acadia National Park. For teachers looking for good background information on water quality or those looking to attend the Floating Classroom field trip, this provides a variety of pre knowledge appropriate for teacher background or students in a classroom. Explore how water moves through a watershed with this demonstration.

  Duration:

  2 minutes, 46 seconds

 

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  Floating Classroom: Graphing

  These videos compliment the variety of water quality programs that occur in Acadia National Park. For teachers looking for good background information on water quality or those looking to attend the Floating Classroom field trip, this provides a variety of pre knowledge appropriate for teacher background or students in a classroom. In this video graphing your collected data to interpret

  Duration:

  4 minutes, 16 seconds

 

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  Floating Classroom: Phytoplankton Net

  These videos compliment the variety of water quality programs that occur in Acadia National Park. For teachers looking for good background information on water quality or those looking to attend the Floating Classroom field trip, this provides a variety of pre knowledge appropriate for teacher background or students in a classroom. In this video the use of a phytoplankton net to collect data is explored.

  Duration:

  1 minute, 16 seconds

 

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  Floating Classroom: Phytoplankton Net

  These videos compliment the variety of water quality programs that occur in Acadia National Park. For teachers looking for good background information on water quality or those looking to attend the Floating Classroom field trip, this provides a variety of pre knowledge appropriate for teacher background or students in a classroom. In this video the use of a phytoplankton net to collect data is explored.

  Duration:

  1 minute, 16 seconds

 

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  Floating Classroom: Accuracy

  These videos compliment the variety of water quality programs that occur in Acadia National Park. For teachers looking for good background information on water quality or those looking to attend the Floating Classroom field trip, this provides a variety of pre knowledge appropriate for teacher background or students in a classroom. This video explores the differences between accuracy and precision and why that difference is important to data collection.

  Duration:

  2 minutes, 57 seconds

 

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  Floating Classroom: Dissolved Oxygen

  These videos compliment the variety of water quality programs that occur in Acadia National Park. For teachers looking for good background information on water quality or those looking to attend the Floating Classroom field trip, this provides a variety of pre knowledge appropriate for teacher background or students in a classroom. In this video dissolved oxygen and how it helps us understand the health of lakes and ponds is explored.

  Duration:

  1 minute, 27 seconds

 

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  Floating Classroom: Secchi Disk

  These videos compliment the variety of water quality programs that occur in Acadia National Park. For teachers looking for good background information on water quality or those looking to attend the Floating Classroom field trip, this provides a variety of pre knowledge appropriate for teacher background or students in a classroom. In this video the use of secchi disks to measure water clarity is explored.

  Duration:

  1 minute, 34 seconds

 

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  Floating Classroom: Water Sampler

  These videos compliment the variety of water quality programs that occur in Acadia National Park. For teachers looking for good background information on water quality or those looking to attend the Floating Classroom field trip, this provides a variety of pre knowledge appropriate for teacher background or students in a classroom. In this video, what a water sampler is and how it is used to collect data is explored.

  Duration:

  1 minute, 10 seconds

 

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  Floating Classroom: Benthic Model

  These videos compliment the variety of water quality programs that occur in Acadia National Park. For teachers looking for good background information on water quality or those looking to attend the Floating Classroom field trip, this provides a variety of pre knowledge appropriate for teacher background or students in a classroom. This video explores how researchers use benthic models to demonstrate the topography of bodies of water.

  Duration:

  1 minute, 31 seconds