This unit explores Performance Expectations MS- LS2-4, LS2-5 by having students collect local ecosystems data with a variety of computational tools: pH sensors, turbidity, oxygen levels and temperature – and to develop a presentation to communicate how and why their stream is a healthy habitat, or not!
Unit Overview
Grades: 6-8
Duration: 18 sessions
Materials:
- Student access to the Internet
- Student notebooks
- Evidence logs
- Driving question board
- Site assessment data sheets
- Vernier Temperature Probe
- Vernier Dissolved Oxygen Probe
- Vernier pH probe
- Vernier Turbidity Probe
- Student notebooks
- Safety goggles
- Chromebooks/laptops
- Chart paper
- Markers
- Video camera (on phone)
