Activities &
For Teachers/By Teachers

• Dragonfly Mercury Project Educational Toolkit (activity): https://www.nps.gov/articles/upload/DMP_Toolkit_01072020.pdf 

• Dragonflies as Biosentinels (powerpoint): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LREkD1SkKUWH29VWleKTyzUiw9x1zqn0/view?usp=share_link 

• Dragonfly Biosentinels Data Analysis (worksheet):  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MecFqAh-OdZ_rwHxbwACpkUeyy1AFLBl/view?usp=share_link

• Food Webs and Trophic Levels (powerpoint):  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PTOS_mK8V9wkoQu9Cp-hiIrBjSZkueH8/view?usp=share_link 

• Food Webs and Trophic Levels (worksheet): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UnO866R-VyWxnhxuRP951cI5QfFur_4b/view?usp=share_link 

• Biomagnification and Bioaccumulation (powerpoint): https://drive.google.com/file/d/16iDHMzfYVuF9y_GrHuci9aFWt8va2IsN/view?usp=share_link 

• Mercury in Fish Trophic Levels (worksheet): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a67zUgx6wgWeOsJrFTRH89n1QD8arIF-/view?usp=share_link 

• Calculate Your Household’s Carbon Footprint (activity): 

https://coolclimate.org/calculator 

• Rise in Global Temperature Records Over 70 Years (interactive graph): https://www.amnh.org/interactive/temperature-timescales 

• Particulate Pollution: Measure the air quality in your classroom/school (activity): https://www.nationaljewish.org/NJH/media/pdf/LP_File_Activity_Air_Quality_Index.pdf 

• Who Polluted the Merrimack (activity): https://www.uml.edu/docs/who_polluted_complete_lesson_tcm18-230466.pdf 

• Pollution Solutions (activity): https://www.teachengineering.org/lessons/view/cub_air_lesson10 

• “An Act Relative to the Pollution of Rivers,” Massachusetts State Law, 1878 (document activity)

• What will biodegrade (activity): https://www.teachengineering.org/lessons/view/duk_landfill_music_less  

• Investigate and Invent Biodegradable Materials (activity) https://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/teacherCenter/lessonPlans/pdfs/6-8_Science_BiodegradableIsBest.pdf  

• Ice Core Mini Lesson (activity): http://info.thinkfun.com/stem-education/cool-classroom-activity-ice-core-mini-lesson 

• What is Mercury? (powerpoint): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DfLlT2a8DQe44HvhItRd8RmHGPv-osOh/view?usp=share_link

• What is Mercury? (worksheet): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r1Xxhd4k8enT1y2_g_QYLSPe-obZBSod/view?usp=share_link 

• New Bedford Harbor: Discussion and Debate (activity): https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/documents/debateactivity.pdf 

• Our Coast, Our Future (activity): https://www.massaudubon.org/learn/for-educators/resources-for-k-12-educators/our-coast-our-future 

• Particulate Matter Air Sensor Kits – Build your own sensor and test the air around you (activity): https://www.epa.gov/air-research/air-quality-and-energy-choice-stem-activities-educators  

• Teaching Climate Solutions: Project WET: https://www.projectwet.org/sites/default/files/inline-files/ClimateResilienceLessonPlan_FINAL_07.15.21.pdf

• Uranium Mining Polluting the Watershed - Working Together to Find Sustainable Solutions (activity): https://www.nps.gov/teachers/classrooms/uranium-mining.htm 

• Visit a wastewater treatment plant near you (activity): https://www.mass.gov/info-details/wastewater-treatment-plants  

• What is Environmental Justice (activity): https://www.learningforjustice.org/classroom-resources/lessons/analyzing-environmental-justice  

• Crumpled Paper Watershed - Investigate the physical characteristics of a watershed and the effects of human land-use decisions on the watershed (activity):

https://www.uml.edu/docs/crumpled_paper_complete_tcm18-175871.pdf 

• What is a Watershed? (powerpoint): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wXuYqQjtCttVGmMq3eKN9RRSfZ3qulLF/view?usp=share_link 

• What is a Watershed? (worksheet): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GR7n9ZyKFbj9ov0n1Qh2CSaz7vJeDBEc/view?usp=share_link