A Guide to Storm Drain Stewardship and Clean Water
Activity - Outdoors
Grades6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12Earth and Space Sciences, Civics
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What it is
- This resource guides students and teachers in organizing a community action project to protect storm drains and keep stormwater clean.
- Students can organize a storm drain clean-up, ditch or culvert clean-up, or storm drain labeling project.
Teaching tips
Positives
- This guide brings important awareness to students about runoff and pollutants that they can apply in their daily lives.
- Students will gain a sense of agency by organizing the stormwater community action project and will feel empowered by their role in keeping their watershed safe.
Prerequisites
- Teachers will need the proper permissions for organizing the action project and will need to find the necessary information for organizing such a project in their community, in conjunction with the local government.
Differentiation & Implementation
- Teachers can illustrate the amount of accessible freshwater by having students create the model in this lesson.
- To implement this in the classroom, teachers may want to organize this with one or two class periods spent on a lesson about stormwater, another class period for researching local stormwater systems, and about a week to plan and organize the action project (with much of the organizing done by the teacher ahead of time).
- Students can channel their creativity by creating posters to advertise the day of their community action project.
- To make language arts and media studies connections, students can write and produce persuasive video announcements, urging community members to volunteer for their community action project.
From the scientist review
This resource introduces students to the importance of keeping stormwater infrastructure free of litter and debris and is a guide to planning a storm drain stewardship event. The text is clear, and several helpful links are included. This resource empowers students to affect positive change in their communities and is recommended for teaching.
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