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Investigating Streams & Water Quality

Teacher’s Manual

• Lesson plans
• Supplies
• Instructor Notes
• Extensions
• Standards Alignment

Teacher’s Manual Appendices

• Appendix A: Questions and guide for viewing The Living Watershed DVD
• Appendix B: Hints from teachers who have taught the curriculum before

Student Handbook

• Chapter I: The Watershed
• Chapter II: Living in the Watershed
• Chapter III: Improving Life in the Watershed

Student Workbook

• Activity I: Macroinvertebrates
• Activity II-A: Design an Experiment
• Activity II-B: Storm Water Pollution Bioassay
• Activity III: Design a New Neighborhood

BMI Guide

• Guide to stream Benthic Macro Invertebrates (BMIs)

Additional Curriculum Resources

• Standards Alignment for Grades 6 – 12
• Worksheet Activity III: Planning Grid
• Food Web Diagram
• Sacramento County Creeks Map