Grade 6 Classroom activity
Upstream and Downstream on the Gorsemere River
A grade 6 role-play where students act as landowners along a shared river, map how upstream choices reach a downstream town, and negotiate a watershed agreement.
C3 Framework · Grades 6–8
D2.Geo.2.6-8 Using maps and images to explain environmental change
Use maps, satellite images, photographs, and other representations to explain relationships between the locations of places and regions, and changes in their environmental characteristics.
Why water teaches this standard well
Paired satellite images of shrinking reservoirs and the drying Aral Sea let students explain how the environmental character of a place changes and why. Floodplain maps and before-and-after river imagery connect location to environmental change with real evidence.
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4 materials aligned to D2.Geo.2.6-8
Classroom activities
Projects
Grade 8 Project
Painting the Corvey River Before and After the Lintwhite Dam Removal
A grade 8 art project in which students paint one fictional river valley before and after an old dam is removed, using atmospheric perspective and a wall label.
Grade 8 Project
Rebuild or Buy Out? A Floodplain Plan for Grantly
A five-session grade 8 project in which students use land cover data and a fixed grant to build a flood plan for 18 homes and defend it to a village board panel.
Career spotlights
Grade 8 Career spotlight
Mapping the Unseen Water: A Hydrologist's Career Profile
A grade 8 career spotlight on the hydrologist who studies groundwater and streamflow, reads maps and satellite images, and follows a four-year and graduate path.