Stream Side Science Lesson Plan: Who Lives in the Water?

In this exercise, students will collect and observe macroinvertebrates in an aquatic system. They will record and summarize their findings

Stream Side Science Lesson Plan: Missing Macroinvertebrates

In this exercise, students will collect macroinvertebrates from a stream site, sort and identify them, and use their fi ndings to identify current and past impacts to the quality of the water. They will also make predictions of how the impacts to the water quality contributed to the localized extinction of some types of macroinvertebrates

How To Manage a Livestock Yard and Protect Your Water - Homeowner Fact Sheet

Proper management of livestock yards helps reduce potential contamination of surface and ground water. Utah now requires that all animal feeding operations (AFOs) control runoff to surface waters (see glossary for definition of an AFO)

How to Protect Your Water From Pesticide Contamination - Homeowner Fact Sheet

Pesticides play an important role in agriculture and in maintaining our homes, lawns, and gardens. Unfortunately, pesticides are showing up where they’re not wanted — in our drinking water and our surface waters. If pesticides are not handled carefully, they can seep through the ground after a leak or spill, directly enter a well during mixing and loading, or drain to a stream or lake

How to Protect Your Water from Spilled Fuel - Homeowner Fact Sheet

Fuel spills and leaks pose a serious threat to human health and environmental quality. One gallon of gasoline can contaminate up to 1 million gallons of water. Cleanup of fuel-contaminated soil and water can be extremely difficult and expensive

Stream Side Science Lesson Plan: When Things Heat Up

In this exercise, students will measure the temperature and dissolved oxygen of a stream (or use their fi ndings from the activity What’s in the Water?) and discuss what this information can tell us about possible pollution problems

Stream Side Science Lesson Plan: Riparian Review

In this exercise, students will identify and observe biotic factors in a riparian ecosystem, which is the green strip of vegetation alongside a waterbody; they will measure the types of vegetation at the water’s edge, the function of plants as ground cover and canopy cover, and observe the wildlife in the area

How to Protect Your Well Water - Homeowner Fact Sheet

A source of clean drinking water is critical for human health. Many rural residents obtain their drinking water from a well and thus must take special care to protect their water source from contamination. Locating and controlling sources of pollution to groundwater can be challenging, but is far preferable to the cost and difficulty of cleaning up contaminated groundwater. Ironically, wells are often the most direct route for pollutants to get into our groundwater

Stream Side Science Lesson Plan: Biodiversity Debate

In this exercise, students will hold a debate about the construction of a dam in terms of the biological, aesthetic, ethical, social and economic arguments with regard to maintaining biodiversity. Students will be assigned different roles to argue either for or against the dam

Stream Side Science: Lesson Plans and Water Related Activities

The 12 activities in Stream Side Science bring a water focus to standards and objectives in the Utah Core Curriculum for Junior High and High School math, science and social studies courses. These hands-on activities help students learn basic concepts while exploring watershed and water quality issues