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Water
Droplet Travel Guide (Where does the Rain go?)
Student Directions
The Challenge: In teams organized with the
help of your teacher, produce a travel guide for a drop of water
entering our local watershed from the atmosphere. You may choose any
location in our watershed as the point of impact for the water droplet.
As you prepare your travel guide, please consider the following:
- Your travel
guide should be colorful, neat, and easy to read and understand. Proper
English grammar and spelling are expected. Your guide should be no
larger than two pieces of 8 1/2 x 11 pieces of paper.
- Your travel
guide should be creative and catchy. Write it as if you want every
droplet of water to want to come to our area. Let the reader know of at
least two possibilities of where the droplet might go in the watershed
as it makes its way back into the atmosphere.
- Provide a map
and pictures so that a droplet could find its way through our
watershed. Include some narration to explain or describe the different
paths the droplet might follow and the implications.
- Be
sure to use the terms “precipitation”,
“evaporation”, “condensation”, “run off”, “absorption”, and “soaking in” accurately as they
describe the droplet’s experience in your watershed.
- Identify
major features such as mountains, fields, parking lots, and rivers that
the water may be traveling on or in. Identify what the water will be
doing as it travels and how those features in the
landscape can
influence how the water travels. Will one pathway allow it to travel
quickly? More slowly? Will it pick up things along the way?
- Include graphics
and illustrations wherever they may help support your message. You must
include at least one graphic
that accurately shows the water cycle as it applies to your droplet.
To assist in
your planning and completion of this project, you and your group should
read the challenge and the product quality checklist, and then
brainstorm a list of tasks necessary to complete. You will be asked to
divide up the tasks, assign duties and fill out a planning schedule to
accomplish your project in the time allotted. Show this planning sheet
to your teacher as soon as you can in the process.
Each team member is expected to keep a work journal with a record of
accomplishments and reflections for each day.
You will have five class days to complete this challenge.
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