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Resources for Teachers
Students: Click here! When it is time to teach your students about water, water cycles, water monitoring, water pollution, and dozens of other water-related topics, you will have a wealth of curriculum materials available to you! Listed here are some of those resources.
Virginia's Water Resources—A Tool for Teachers curriculum packet
Virginia-specific! This book is full of information and activities for teachers to support interdisciplinary and problem-based teaching about watersheds, water quality, stewardship, and management issues. It is correlated to Virginia's Standards of Learning (SOL), and supports the Chesapeake 2000 Agreement's goal to "provide a meaningful Bay or stream outdoor experience for every school student in the watershed before graduation from high school."
Virginia's Water Resources—A Tool for Teachers was written by Jeremy M. Lloyd, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Science Education, Longwood University, and Kathleen M. Register, Executive Director of Clean Virginia Waterways. Illustrations and graphic design by Kevin Bopp. It was developed through a grant from the Virginia Environmental Endowment. Click here for the Table of Contents and PDF files you can print.
River and beach cleanups can be integrated into your classwork
Stream, river and beach cleanups can be an important part of a meaningful watershed educational experience. CVW has written "Virginia's Water Resources: A Tool for Teachers" which has several lesson plans that are built around a waterway cleanup. Students can learn about the impact of litter, math and classification skills, graphing and charting skills, and much more based on the data they collect during a cleanup. Your class, school or ecology club can have their own cleanup event in a waterway near your school. The data collected by students can also be sent to CVW for inclusion in our statewide data base. Click here for a Sign Up Form that you can print out. Learn about being a Site Captain.
Possessing Animals in Your Classroom:
Virginia has regulations that restrict the number of wild, nongame fish, reptiles, amphibians, or aquatic invertebrates a person may possess. Basically, you can take (capture and keep live) up to 5 of any one species of reptile or amphibian. Any more than five, you need a permit. Once in captivity for 40 days the animal may not be returned to the wild. Any animal purchased from a supply house (such as tadpoles) may never ever be released. It is recommended that no wild animal be brought into the classroom for more than a day. Instead, the school grounds can be converted into a habitat and the animals allowed to come and go as they please. Also, it is illegal to possess threatened and endangered species unless you have a special permit. The goal of these regulations is to protect the populations of nongame species. In addition, there are fishing, hunting, and trapping regulations for game species. It is important for all teachers to know the law. To learn about current regulations, call your local office of the Virginia Game and Inland Fisheries (DGIF), or visit the DGIF website (www.dgif.state.va.us/fishing) and select "Virginia Freshwater Fishing Regulations," and then "Nongame Fish, Reptile, Amphibian, and Aquatic Invertebrate Regulations."
These teachers from Albemarle County are testing water for the presence of nitrate. They attended a workshop put on by Clean Virginia Waterways and Longwood University thanks to a grant from the Dave Matthews Band. Curriculum Materials on the Internet:
Virginia Naturally web site
Teachers—This web site is the place to start your search for lesson plans, workshop opportunities, grant information and much more. It has extensive links to environmental educational materials.
http://www.deq.state.va.us/vanaturally/homepage.htmlLessons From The Bay
Lessons from the Bay (new in 2003) helps Virginia school teachers of grades 3 through 6 incorporate into their classrooms a variety of activities and projects related to protecting and restoring the Chesapeake Bay watershed, in keeping with the state’s commitment in the Chesapeake 2000 Agreement. To accomplish this purpose, Lessons from the Bay offers lesson plans, project action guide, a glossary, and other instructional resources.
http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/watershed/index.htmlU.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Water for Kids Learn about wetlands, rivers, oceans, estuaries, water conservation, drinking water, and more! http://www.epa.gov/water/kids/waterforkids.html
U.S. Geological Survey Water Science for Schools This site has information on many aspects of water, along with pictures, data, maps, and an interactive center where you can give opinions and test your water knowledge. http://wwwga.usgs.gov/edu/
GLOBE is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based education and science program. Teachers will find a wealth of information about water quality monitoring on this site, plus data about water quality around the world that you can use in your classroom.
"Love a Tree" Love-A-Tree is an environmental education program developed by International Paper. This site has lesson plans and other resources for teachers.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Turning the Tide on Trash: Marine Debris Curriculum http://www.epa.gov/OWOW/OCPD/Marine/contents.html
Virginia Department of Education Standards of Learning:
Instruction, Training,and Assessment Resources. This site has SOL Teacher Resource Guides http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/Instruction/sol.htmlPew Oceans Commission Report (http://www.pewoceans.org)
A new major report by the Pew Oceans Commission was released in June 2003. The report, America's Living Oceans: Charting a Course for Sea Change, is the culmination of a three-year process representing the first comprehensive look at U.S. Ocean policy in over 30 years, and includes detailed recommendations for the U.S. government and the American public to improve ocean management. A must read by all of us who care about the oceans!Pollution Solutions—Litter Prevention activities for teachers
http://www.deq.state.va.us/education/polsul/Project Wet (water education for teachers)
This K-12 curriculum supplement addresses topics such as atmospheric water, surface and ground water quality, cultural and historic uses of water, and contemporary management issues. Lessons are correlated to the new Standards of Learning. Educators receive the 500-page guide once they complete one of the six-hour workshops. Water resources trunks, which include a groundwater model, maps, videos and activities, are available on loan. To schedule a training workshop for groups of 20 or more, contact Ann Regn, at (804) 698-4442, or email amregn@deq.state.va.us. Visit the national site at for Project WET.Smokey the Bear Posters (Set)
$31 for six sets. Order from:
National Assn of State Foresters
106 East Green Street, Suite A
Franklinton, NC 27525
919-494-1300Listing of pollution prevention publications and resources
www.deq.state.va.us/p2/
Cleaning up the environment is a difficult task! DEQ's Office of Pollution Prevention's goal is to make clean-up easier by preventing pollution in the first place. To learn more about P2, visit the Office of Pollution Prevention's information clearinghouse which contains fact sheets, case studies, success stories, hard copy publications, journals, videos, information on the environmental Excellence Program and other materials relating to pollution prevention. For a complete listing of publications and resources visit www.deq.state.va.us/p2/ .Loads of information about the Chesapeake Bay
http://chesapeakebay.net/VA Environmental Education Directory
http://www.deq.state.va.us/eed/
Topics: air, animals, biosphere, Chesapeake bay, historic resources, land, soil, agriculture, water, trees, plants, and MORE!Project Learning Tree
Conservation of forests and more. Call your local office of the VA Dept of Forestry"Bay, Plain and Piedmont—Landscape History of the Chesapeake Bay from 1.3 billion years ago to 2000"
http://chesapeakebay.net/pubs/gateways/plainandpiedmont/index.htm
A synthesis of human activity in the core portion of the Chesapeake Bay watershed written by the National Park Service, with the assistance of a partnership of federal and state agencies, academic institutions, public and private organizations and individuals. This landscape history provides accurate, up to date information on the natural and cultural resources of the Chesapeake Bay heartland, and reveals how a complex ever-changing web of relationships connects all of the region's resources. This landscape history serves as a consolidated reference for interpreting the Bay watershed's cultural and natural resources.Communities and Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network partners can examine how their local resources and stories fit within the larger picture and relate to Chesapeake Bay interpretive themes. State Historic Preservation Offices applying state historic contexts can use this study to place information about properties into a broader, more comparative regional perspective. This document may be viewed in its full format or by chapter (online only). To find out more about this project, contact the National Park Service at 1-800-YOUR BAY.
VA Department of Game & Inland Fisheries
http://www.dgif.state.va.us/wildlife/
From this site, you can select an animal species that lives in Virginia, and learn more detailed information than you thought possible! A hidden jewel of information!Southern Environmental Law Center
http://www.selcva.org/main_about.shtml
Select "Virginia" under states for lots of good information.U.S. Geological Survey in Virginia
http://fs01svarmd.er.usgs.gov/
This site has lots of information about water resources in our state.Frog watch - a project of the US Geological Survey
http://www.mp2-pwrc.usgs.gov/FrogWatch/Drinking water in Virginia
http://www.epa.gov/safewater/dwinfo/va.htmState of the Chesapeake Bay Report
http://www.chesapeakebay.net/pubs/sob/index.htmlGrants for teachers: The Virginia Environmental Endowment's website has grant information for teachers and schools http://www.vee.org
Complied by Clean Virginia Waterways. Please send additions to cleanva@longwood.edu
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