LEVEL II ACTIVITY  WHEEL: Shows all the activites in the Level II curriculum.

ACTIVITY 1:  UNDERSTANDING YOUR WATERSHED

Part A: What Is The Question?
Summary: Students will discover the  relationship between upstream influences in their watershed and their  watershed's estuary. Students and teachers will brainstorm the additional  information they need to know and how they can obtain that information in order  to begin to answer their watershed questions.

Part B:  Mapping Your Watershed
Summary: Students will contact local planners, Soil Conservation Service personnel and Coastal Zone Management  personnel to obtain land use and water resource information and historical water  quality monitoring information. Students will obtain USGS topographic maps  needed to create a watershed map. Students will create a map of the local area  which identifies watersheds and access points to those watersheds. They will be  able to create mylar overlays of their local map showing soil type, plant communities, and other land use categories. They will develop and complete a data table that summarizes the information discovered. The data will be submitted to the network. After all regional schools have submitted data,  students may download a compilation of the regional data. They will then analyze  and compare the findings.

ACTIVITY 5 BIOLOGY -- WHAT LIVES HERE?

Part A:  Biological Monitoring
Summary: Students will survey the biota  of the water course. They will conduct sampling for macroinvertebrates, chlorophyll a or appropriate indicator species following the design of their  approved water sampling plan.

Part B:  Biological Monitoring
Summary: Students will identify the  species collected. They will analyze the samples for species diversity and  population characteristics. They will enter their data in the biological monitoring tables and submit it to the network