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Components of a MWEE
Components of a MWEE
Below are examples that your students can do in school OR at home to complete your MWEE.
Teachers or students can select 1 or more from each category to complete their MWEE.
Issue Definition
Outdoor Field Experience
Action Project
Synthesis and Conclusion
Issue Definition
Issue Definition
Educators
Teachers can select 1 or more from each category to complete their MWEE.
In School MWEE
In School MWEE
Friends of the Rappahannock will come into your classroom to teach and lead supporting activities.
1.We All Live Downstream
1.We All Live Downstream
Learn about top pollutants of the Rappahannock river and how we can keep our waters clean. This interactive demonstration highlights common community businesses, their pollutants and how it affects everyone downstream.
2. Environmental-STEM (E-STEM) Stormwater Sediment Filter Design Challenge
2. Environmental-STEM (E-STEM) Stormwater Sediment Filter Design Challenge
Learn the top pollutants in the Rappahannock River while discovering the importance of our stormdrain systems. Students learn while they engineer stormwater filters for the top pollutant.
3. Water Quality in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
3. Water Quality in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Students perform chemical and physical water quality tests. Tests include data collection via handheld digital probe ware and traditional tests with a sample of water from the Rappahannock River.
4. E-STEM Hydro Power Design Challenge
4. E-STEM Hydro Power Design Challenge
Students will discover how humans harness and use the renewable natural resource of water as they design and test their own prototypes.
At Home MWEE
At Home MWEE
1.We All Live Downstream
1.We All Live Downstream
2. Stormwater STEM Sediment Filter Lesson
2. Stormwater STEM Sediment Filter Lesson
3. Chesapeake Bay Foundation Videos
3. Chesapeake Bay Foundation Videos
Reducing Erosion
The state of your Bay
Water Quality Testing
Oyster Filtering
Many more.......
Outdoor Field Experience
Outdoor Field Experience
Educators
Teachers can select 1 or more from each category to complete their MWEE.
In School MWEE
In School MWEE
Friends of the Rappahannock will help plan and provide support.
Experiences vary depending on the watershed driving question you and your students come up with, what resources your school site has available, and what arrangements you may make with other partners such as Lake Anna State Park and Tri-County City Soil and Water Conservation District.
Options Include but not limited to:
a) water quality and macroinvertebrate investigation on school site
b) kayak trip on local waterway
c) Schoolyard Report Card on school site (teacher driven)
d) Bioblitz on school site
e) analysis of movement of water over various slopes on school grounds (topography, water flow, water infiltration) on school site
f) varies greatly - together we can create an investigative experience of your choosing!
At Home MWEE
At Home MWEE
1.Backyard Report Card
1.Backyard Report Card
2. Potomac Highlands Watershed School
2. Potomac Highlands Watershed School
Virtual Macroinvertebrate study
3. Water Quality Analysis
3. Water Quality Analysis
Action Project
Action Project
Educators
Teachers can select 1 or more from each category to complete their MWEE.
In School MWEE
In School MWEE
Friends of the Rappahannock will help plan and provide support.
Installation of a ...
b) bioswale
c) rain barrel or cistern (latter requires permits)
d) oyster reef restoration (downriver)
e) trash clean up
f) trees for schools
g) floating wetland
h) recycle program
i) Action Projects are only limited by our imagination!
At Home MWEE
At Home MWEE
Friends of the Rappahannock can provide plants and grass seed.
c.) Planting Seeds / plants
Video
d.) Soil Erosion control planting grass
Video
Synthesis and Conclusion
Synthesis and Conclusion
Educators
Teachers can select 1 or more from each category to complete their MWEE.
In School MWEE
In School MWEE
Friends of the Rappahannock will help plan and provide support.
MWEE Synthesis and Conclusion: The sharing of learned and distilled information on issues affecting the watershed.
a) create pamphlets
b) write positions to elected officials or local school board
c) paint storm drain murals or stencils
d) Green Screen PSAs
e) conservation posters of all types
f) awareness posters
g) visit legislators
h) watershed diagram
At Home MWEE
At Home MWEE
a) create pamphlets
b) write positions to elected officials or local school board
c)create drain medalians
d) Green Screen PSAs
e) conservation posters of all types
f) neighborhood awareness posters
g) watershed diagram/diorama
h) driveway watershed (chalk)
i) driveway PSA (chalk)
Friends of the Rappahannock Educators
Friends of the Rappahannock Educators
Please contact Nancy Stalik or Lindsay Anderson if you have any questions
nancy.stalik@riverfriends.org or lindsay.anderson@riverfriends.org
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