Environment 55: How Stormwater Runoff Pollution Affects the Environment
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Grades: 3rd – 5th Grade, 6th – 8th Grade, 9th – 12th Grade
Katherine Golden, Sustainability Education Manager and Rob Kennedy, Sustainability Programs Coordinator at the EarthWays Center of the Missouri Botanical Garden explain how stormwater runoff pollution affects the environment and get you thinking what you can do about it.
Student Tools
Student Tool 66: Video Reflection Worksheet
Students can use this activity on their own to share their learning and insights about any video they watch independently, and this Student Tool can also be used in conjunction with Teacher Tool 318: Sharing Your Insights Through A Reflection Worksheet as part of a classroom or homeschool activity. This tool can be used with any video on the Educate.Today website.
Teacher Tools
Teacher Tool 22: STEM Activity–Classroom Non-Point Source Pollution
Download this teacher tool for a STEM activity providing students the opportunity to observe and respond to non-point source pollution occurring in an environment they created. This activity can be used with any combination of the following Educate.Today videos: Environment-54, Environment-55, Environment-56, Environment-57, Environment-61, Environment-62, Environment-70, Infrastructure-3.
Teacher Tool 24: STEM Activity–School Surfaces Runoff
Download this teacher tool for a STEM activity providing students the opportunity to observe and respond to calculate the amount of runoff caused by impervious surfaces. This activity can be used with any combination of the following Educate.Today videos: Environment-54, Environment-55, Environment-56, Environment-57, Environment-61, Environment-62, Environment-70, Infrastructure-3.
Teacher Tool 25: STEM Activity–Storm Water Runoff Investigation
Download this teacher tool for a STEM activity providing students the opportunity to combine mapping skills, observation, data recording, and mathematics as they investigate the impact of storm water runoff on their school grounds. This activity can be used with any combination of the following Educate.Today videos: Environment-54, Environment-55, Environment-56, Environment-57, Environment-61, Environment-62, Environment-70, Infrastructure-3.
Teacher Tool 317: Cross Curricular Activity–Sharing Insights Through a Journal Entry
This teacher tool, accompanying the video above, provides an Interdisciplinary activity that invites students to write a journal entry that shares learning and insights they gained by watching the video. This tool can be used with any video on the Educate.Today website.
Teacher Tool 318: Cross Curricular Activity–Video Reflection
This teacher tool, accompanying the video above, provides an Interdisciplinary activity that invites students to complete a reflection worksheet to share learning and insights they gained by watching the video. This tool can be used with any video on the Educate.Today website.
Teacher Tool 319: Cross Curricular Activity–Sharing Learning Verbally
This teacher tool, accompanying the video above, provides an Interdisciplinary activity that invites students to share learning and insights they gained by watching the video through verbal sharing and conversation. This tool can be used with any video on the Educate.Today website.
Teacher Tool 320: Vocabulary Interesting to Me
This teacher tool, accompanying the video above, invites students to increase their vocabulary by selecting, and learning the definitions of, words in the video that are unknown and/or interesting to them. This tool can be used with any video on the Educate.Today website.
Teacher Tool 321: Vocabulary Activity
This teacher tool, accompanying the video above, asks students to listen for certain vocabulary words you have selected and define them in two ways: 1) contextually based on what they think the definition might be based on what they learn in the video; and 2) through a dictionary to either confirm or refine their contextual definition. This tool can be used with any video on the Educate.Today website.
