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Students will know how to map puddles on their school property and investigate what lives in the puddles.  

Students will be able to observe the environment around them and formulate questions based on their own observations.  

Students make and process final observations of their plants, graphs and discuss their data in groups, compile the whole class data, discuss conclusions, then write letters to GROW.

Students will know that plants use oxygen underwater and be able to design an experiment that will test this question.

Students will know how salt pollution gets into groundwater, and be able to explain what happens when salt is applied to the ground/roads using data.  

Students will understand the different aspects of pollution and be able to explain why salt pollution is a problem.   Students will know that changing the abiotic factors of an ecosystem affects the organisms living in the ecosystem, and will be able to explain at least two ways in which salt affects organisms from different ecosystems.

Students will know how streams become polluted with salt using first and second hand data, and will be able to make a prediction about future chloride levels in their local watershed stream.  

Students will know how much water enters and exits their school building, creating a water budget and be able to understand how land cover affects the water that enters the school campus.

Students will draw what they see. Students will work to include locations of different features on a schoolyard as seen from a side view.

Students learn that soil is a complex mixture of rock, organic material, and water, along with air spaces. Through soil testing and map reading, they learn that soil composition varies from site to site depending on the underlying rock type, overlying vegetation, time, topography, climate, and chemicals carried by water percolating through the soil. Lastly, students understand that soils in a watershed affect the chemistry and quantity of water as it percolates through them.

Students will know the connection between land use and permeability, and be able to use data from a classroom activity to explain this connection.

Students will know the importance of soil as a water filter, and be able to discuss how the composition of the soil impacts its ability to filter pollutants.

Students hear a story of a scientist who studies microbe decomposers, then plan and take a trip outside to collect items for culturing microbes.

Long-term data set demonstrating the change over time in the Hudson River before and after sewage treatment plants.

This dataset shows how species density and diversity have shifted over time, and how these shifts vary based on location.