La Tercera Elementary

Teachers: Chris Carter & Lisa Beaudry
Grade Level: 6th
Subject: History and Science

Essential Question: What impacts to the environment exist within the Petaluma River watershed, and what can we do to reduce or eliminate these impacts?

Project Summary

Students will have the opportunity to sample water along Petaluma River multiple times during the school year (February-April) and identify potential human impacts to the environment in these areas. They will assess impacts at these sites by:

1) recording abiotic parameters at these sites, including temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, nitrogen, ammonia,
phosphates, turbidity, salinity, and conductivity.

2) Students will then work to develop a plan/proposal for reducing or
eliminating identified impacts to these sites.

This information could then be shared with interested local
parties/stakeholders.

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Year One

Resources

Pear Deck

A presentation platform allowing students to interact with a teacher's presentation on their own individual devices.

Watershed Classroom

Watershed Classroom supports the implementation of exceptionally engaging curriculum about the Petaluma River and Watershed to educate youth in Petaluma about their place in our environment, how their decisions and actions affect their environment and inspire youth to conserve and celebrate the Petaluma Watershed.