Watershed+Resources

**MAP



Internet 2 Resource** @http://www.teachersdomain.org Life Science - Watersheds Group ID # 7061

Maps - http://waterwatch.usgs.gov/?m=real&w=gmap&regions=pa


 * Some Watershed Resources**

Surf Your Watershed @http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/locate/index.cfm

PA Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) - BUREAU OF WATERSHED MANAGEMENT - @http://www.depweb.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/watershed_management/10593

Choose your Watershed - @http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/deputate/watermgt/wc/subjects/wsnotebks/shedtable.htm

PA's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) that Vernice actually used with students when teaching science: []

PA State Parks program (the one being offered to us as a PD session): @http://www.watersheded.dcnr.state.pa.us/

Watersheds -

Real-time data and maps - []

POSSIBLE INTERNET 2 RESOURCES -

**VERNICE**

Library of Congress | www.loc.gov The Library of Congress offers several professional development and outreach programs and digital archive materials over Internet2. You can read more about how the Library is using Internet2 for digital preservation on their digital preservation website, http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/.

National Science Digital Library | www.nsdl.org NSDL is a digital library of exemplary resource collections and services, organized in support of science education at all levels.

Research Channel | www.researchchannel.org Video-on-Demand collection of educational material, including: political science, K-12 education, health sciences, arts and humanities, etc.

**HARVEY**

University Channel | http://uc.princeton.edu/ A collection of public affairs lectures, panels and events from academic institutions all over the world -- for you to view, listen to, stream or download.

C-SPAN Searchable Archives | http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/ C-SPAN has digitized its entire holdings from 1998 to the present and allows educators and researchers to access this collection via the Internet2 Network

NOEL

Open Student Television Network | www.ostn.org OSTN is the first and only 24/7 global television network devoted to student-produced programming. OSTN's mission is to provide opportunities for students through resources, community, exposure, and experience.

USC SHOAH Foundation Institute | http://college.usc.edu/vhi/ Inspired by his experience making Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg established the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation in 1994 to gather video testimonies from survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust. Within several years, the Foundation's Visual History Archive held nearly 52,000 video testimonies in 32 languages, representing 56 countries; it is the largest archive of its kind in the world.

FROM NOEL - I am not sure if these qualify, but they may be helpful.

@http://www.interwet.psu.edu/

@http://cgee.hamline.edu/rivers/Resources/web/Links.html

@http://www.academicinfo.net/rocksusgs.html

AND

@http://waterontheweb.org/

Water on the Web (WOW) provides water quality data collected from remote underwater sampling stations placed in five Minnesota lakes (http://wow.nrri.umn.edu/wow/index.html), which continuously sample and analyze water from different depths in the lakes. "Data visualization tools," accessible from the WOW web site, allow students to see and explore relationships among the data points that would probably be lost to them were the data merely displayed as matrixes of numbers. Most importantly, students can, with a few points and clicks, change parameters defining the dynamic graphic displays. Thus, the utilities provide simple and engaging mediums for open exploration and powerful effective tools for hypothesis testing. For example, in an inquiry-based classroom a teacher might direct students to use the "color mapper" data visualization tool to explore lake stratifications. Under this scenario, the teacher might have students define the parameters so that water temperature is color-graphed and dissolved oxygen is shown with a line graph (note that different students could be looking at data from various lakes and at various time frames in this example). Through the teacher-guided inquiry, students should quickly discover how sharp gradients in temperature and dissolved oxygen define the epilimnion strata at the surface of lakes. Students could then form hypotheses predicting how other variables might behave around this boundary and ultimately, they could change system settings and "run" animations to test their hypotheses. Data visualization tools within WOW are also well suited for presenting clear pictures of various complex and interesting phenomena and events that occur within lake ecosystems. For example, because water is at its most dense at 4 degreesC, the water at the bottom of a deep lake remains at 4 degrees C year round. Consequently, as surface waters cool to this temperature in the autumn and warm in the spring, the waters of a deep lake may "turn over" twice a year. The data visualization tool is an ideal resource for exploring and displaying the important impacts of this dynamic event.

**JILL**

WGBH Teacher's Domain | www.teachersdomain.org <@http://www.teachersdomain.org/> Collection of resources for K12 educators: high quality multi-media resources from public television; correlation to national and state curriculum standards; media-rich lesson plans; and customizable resource folders. Log in after creating a username and password - use Watershed as a search keyword and find many resources. For example What's in your Stream is a series of lessons we may want to borrow from.

**ALLISON**

The NJVID Project | [] NJVID is statewide video portal & repository for New Jersey that provides a common online platform for presentation, storage and archiving of digital works (e.g. digital video) that educate and enlighten their audiences. NYVID Project was not a useful resource for our project. To post to this collaborative video sharing site you need to be a member of NJ schools or NJ universities. Some videos are open for all to use, others need a membership login. I was not able to locate any videos regarding watersheds.

SMILE Pathway | [] SMILE Pathway is a digital library for educators working in multiple settings with children from diverse backgrounds. Engaging learning activities are aggregated from science and technology centers, museums, and community-based organizations. SMILE Pathway was also not a useful resource for our project. This contains a search engine to search many databases for science and math resources. I found the resources to be geared more toward elementary and middle school children. This site is similar to www.Thinkfinity.com, with the addition of a social networking feature.