Grade 8 Lesson plan
Guarding Glasslake: A Source Water Protection Career Lesson
A 50-minute grade 8 careers lesson in which students act as source water protection specialists, mapping five watershed hazards and designing a monitoring plan.
C3 Framework · Grades 6–8
D2.Geo.1.6-8 Constructing maps of cultural and environmental patterns
Construct maps to represent and explain the spatial patterns of cultural and environmental characteristics.
Why water teaches this standard well
Mapping a local watershed shows students that water follows ridgelines rather than city or county lines, so the map that explains a river rarely matches the map that governs it. Constructing watershed, floodplain, and water-source maps makes the spatial pattern of an environmental system visible.
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6 materials aligned to D2.Geo.1.6-8
Lesson plans
Grade 8 Lesson plan
Mapping Dry Wells in Durnley County: Who Gets Help First?
A grade 8 geography lesson in which students map a rural county's failing wells from a data table and advise the county board on where to spend a limited grant.
Grade 7 Lesson plan
Pennygate's Flooded Street: Buyout, Floodwall, or Lift?
A 50-minute grade 7 civics lesson in which students map a fictional flood-prone street and weigh a buyout, a floodwall, and raising the houses.
Grade 8 Lesson plan
Sharing the Kestrel Flats Aquifer: A Grade 8 Groundwater Board Lesson
A grade 8 geography and civics lesson where students map a shared aquifer under Alder Bluff and its farms, then set pumping limits as a groundwater board.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Mapping the Dunbrook River Watershed: Land Use Upstream
A grade 6 geography lesson where students map the fictional Dunbrook River watershed and calculate what percent of the land upstream is farmland, forest, and urban area.
Projects
Grade 7 Project
The Cressbrook Watershed Pocket Map: Line Weight by Stream Order
Grade 7 teams design a folding trail map of a fictional watershed, setting each stream's line weight by its stream order and making the divide stand out.