9th - 12th Grade PROGRAM OFFERINGS

Sediment Core Lab

• Learning Objective: To understand how scientists use properties observed from sediment cores to recreate Earth’s history.
• Activity: Students discuss current and historic climate changes; make sediment core samples with sand, clay slurry, and carbonate; practice interpreting different core samples. Students/teacher to provide one clear, 12 oz. fluid plastic bottle per 2 students for group activity.

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Ecosystem IQ

• Learning Objective:  Investigate physical and chemical restraints on all biological relationships and systems.  Discuss cyclic fluctuations around a state of rough equilibrium. Address misconceptions of population growth capacity, interspecies and intra-species competition for resources.
• Activity: Play a "challenge" game where students listen to others' answers then try to form a more concise answer addressing common ecological misconceptions.

Environmental Careers

• Learning Objective: To introduce students to the various career opportunities available in the environmental science field.
• Activity: Students play a BINGO game and learn about  multiple environmental careers, each with an example of something a person with that career might do.

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Conscientious Consumerism

• Learning Objective: Explore how consumer choices can influence various global environmental problems and issues such as climate change, water quality and use, sustainability, air quality, food production and availability, deforestation, and loss of biodiversity.
• Activity: Students practice how to research companies and labeling requirements; calculate ecological footprints based on lifestyle choices, and explore interconnected global impacts.

​Benthic Bugs

• Learning Objective: Investigate the diversity and interdependence of life and the variation of organisms within a species. Explore classification systems that are frameworks developed by scientists for describing the diversity of organisms and relatedness between organisms. Organisms transform energy (flow of energy) and matter (cycles of matter) as they survive.
• Activity: Students investigate the relative water quality of a stream by conducting a simulated bioassessment while sampling aquatic macroinvertebrates (represented by ordinary materials). Students further explore Benthic Macroinvertebrates that are used as indicators of the relative health of a stream; the common form of sampling them is called bioassessment. 
• Extensions: Schedule a Stream Quality Monitoring trip to a local stream.

           

Warren County SWCD tailors programs for the wide variety of classroom needs at the high school level. Other program presentation topics may include:

• Macroinvertebrate Stream Study (offsite program at local stream)
• Watersheds in Ohio
• Ground water
• Soil/Erosion
• Land use and land management
• Ohio Wildlife and biodiversity
• Sustainability
• Current environmental issues 
• Topographic maps
• Composting

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