WATER and

the World Around You

Part 1 – Water Facts

• Why should we care about water?

• List 5 reasons on your paper…

• Water.org

Part 2 – Photosynthesis

Plants are our Friends!What are 4 things

needed for this process to occur?

Photosynthesis Animation

Chemical Process of Photosynthesis

What is Respiration?

• Glucose is stored chemical energy. It must be broken down in order to be useable to organisms.

The Life Box

• What you need to know to teach this lesson…– Get your notebooks out and take a

minute to read through the lesson.– What are the objectives of this lesson?– Complete the funsheet on photosynthesis

& respiration… – Now, let’s quiz ourselves…– QUIZ!

Optional Game Links

• The A-Maze-ing-Underground Game– The balance of soil nutrients & water

• Survivor Soak Game– The optimal amount of water for plants

The Life Box – 4th grade

Let’s take a look

at

“The Life Box”

Lesson

PART 3 – The Water Cycle

• PARTS OF THE WATER CYCLE CAN BE VIEWED AS:

– Compartments that store water

– Routes of transport between compartments

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Tri-C Eastern Campus BIO 2806 - Environmental Science for Educators: Promoting Watershed Stewardship July 2008

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Questions for You:

• Write down 5 “compartments” where water is stored on Earth.

• Write down 5 routes of transport between “compartments.”

The Incredible Journey

• What you need to know to teach this lesson…– Get your notebooks out and take a

minute to read through the lesson.– List at least 5 things about the water cycle

that you will need to know in order to effectively teach this lesson.

– Don’t repeat anything you wrote down on the previous slide.

Coe Lake Lesson – 3rd Grade

“The Incredible Journey”

Let’s Play!

Part 3 –Watersheds

What is a Watershed?

• The area of land that drains into a body of water– Water flows down!

• You are always in the watershed of some body of water

• All activities in the watershed affect the water quality of that area

A Watershed is a Geomorphological Structure

U.S. WATERSHEDS

How many watersheds do you see in Ohio?

Ohio Watersheds

Where does rainfall in Columbus eventually flow to?Where does snowfall in Toledo eventually flow to?Where does sleet in Marietta eventually flow to?

Tri-C Eastern Campus BIO 2806 - Environmental Science for Educators: Promoting Watershed Stewardship July 2007

Lake Erie WatershedWithin Ohio

What is the blue watershed above is called?

St. Lawrence Seaway Map

Rocky RiverWatershed

BEREA FALLS OVERLOOK

Where does this water flow?

Confluence of the Rocky River

• West Branch of the Rocky River Meets the East Branch

So…how does this affect you?

• The need for clean, fresh water – water is a necessity for all life.– Drinking, cooking, farming, fishing, playing,

bathing…

• Promotes stewardship

– We all live downstream….– Let’s take a look at the Rocky River

Watershed Booklet…– Rocky River Watershed Booklet :-)

RR Watershed Booklet Questions

Answer the questions on the Rocky River

Watershed Fun Sheet

What is Stewardship?

The act of entrusting the careful and responsible management of the

environment and natural resources to one's care for long term protection and sustainability and the benefit of

the general community

“Parenting” of an environmental resource

Part 4 The World’s

Water

DESALINATIONSpain's drive to develop its southern coast for tourism has required it to tap the Mediterranean Sea for

fresh water. The country's 700 desalination plants produce 800 million gallons yearly.

THE STAFF OF LIFE

THE STAFF OF LIFEWater, Earth's most precious resource, serves simultaneously as habitat, nourishment and cleanser.

Brazil's Pantanal River, for example, is home to 3,500 species of plants, 400 kinds of fish, 650 bird species, 100 kinds of mammals and 80 types of reptiles. It is not only a vital waterway for man,

but an essential filter for the impurities he leaves behind

SLOW THE MELTThe glaciers that provide Europe with drinking water have lost more than half their volume in the last

century. In this photo, workers at the Pitztal Glacier ski resort in Austria push a fleece-like blanket down the glacier's slope to protect the snow during the summer months.

FILTRATIONTwo Sudanese boys drink with specially fitted plastic tubes provided by the Carter Center to guard against the water-borne larvae which are responsible for guinea worm disease. The program has distributed millions of tubes and has reduced the spread of this debilitating disease by 70 percent.

SACRED BATHShamans in Ecuador perform a soul-cleansing ritual at Peguche Falls during the Inti Raymi fiesta, an

ancient Incan celebration of the sun. It is believed that water gives a person power to work and the courage to dance for the fiesta.

OUTHOUSESThe waters of the Niger River Delta are used for defecating, bathing, fishing and garbage.

Despite the fact that oil companies have removed more than $400 billion of wealth out of the wetland, local residents have little to show for it.

DRIED UP SEABEDThe Aral Sea has lost two-thirds of its volume because its source rivers were diverted for cotton

irrigation during the Soviet era. Once the fourth-largest lake in the world, it is now a dusty graveyard of rusting shipwrecks.

SHORT SUPPLYResidents of a slum in a Delhi, India scramble for the water that is delivered to them daily. The camp

is home to approximately 4,000 migrant workers, but lacks a clean water supply, so the workers are dependent on public and private trucks to bring it to them.

DIGGING DEEPMore than two billion people worldwide rely on wells for their water. As water tables

continue to drop, many of them, like these Kenyan villagers on Pate Island, devote countless hours to collecting and hauling the valuable resource. The pits in this photo, taken less

than 300 feet from the ocean's edge, yield a brackish, but drinkable water.

PIPELINEBecause water in Mumbai, India is prohibitively expensive, many residents of this slum rely on leaks

found — or created — in the massive tubes that carry water to more affluent neighborhoods. The poor of the city avoid the garbage and human waste surrounding their dwellings by

walking on top of the pipelines.

FISHING HOLESIce fishermen work their lines on Russia's Ural River, in the shadow of Lenin Steelworks.

Worried that the fish are too contaminated to eat, many of these winter anglers send their catch to distant markets for sale.

DIRTY WATERFoul-smelling water mixed with coal had been running from Kenny Stroud's faucet for more than a decade before clean tap water was finally provided by the city of Rawl, West Virginia. Residents of

the town with similar problems blame Massey Energy, a coal mining company for the bad water, saying that the problem, caused by the company's practice of dumping coal slurry into local

streams and waterways, has caused numerous health problems. In 2007, Massey settled a $30 million lawsuit filed by the state.

What do you need to know?• Why should we care about water?• What 4 things are needed for life?• What are the chemical equations for

photosynthesis and respiration?• What are the compartments and

passageways of the water cycle?• What is a watershed?• In which watershed(s) do you live?• RR Watershed booklet questions…• What is stewardship? Déjà vu?