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Water Quality
Pathway Partners and Credits
Below is a list of comprehensive links to references and resources used throughout the Water Quality Project Pathway. We would like to thank all the organisations for making their resources and programs available to us and the public, and hope that you enjoy their resources as much as we do!
Observe
Gather
- Stream Habitat Survey - Georgia Adopt-A-Stream
- GREEN Low-Cost Water Monitoring Kit Manual - marketed by created by Earth Force;
- Macroinvertebrate Training - Georgia Adopt-A-Stream
- Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Field Guide - Georgia Adopt-A-Stream
Reason
- Water Quality Index Calculator with help from PlusUs
- Biotic Index Calculator - Leaf Pack Network
- Create A Graph - National Center for Education Statistics
Explore
- Google Earth
- How's my Waterway - United States Environmental Protection Agency
- Pollution Scorecard - Good Guide
- Skype A Scientist
- Georgia Adopt-A-Stream
- Water Rangers
- SPLASSH
- Design Challenge Rubric - Iridescent Learning
- Trash Bot Article - Digital Trends, Control Trash Bot at Altrubots
- Awesome Aquifers for Science Olympiad - Groundwater Foundation
- Water Filtration Challenge - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- How Waste Water Treatment Plants Work Film?
- Using a Stream Table to Model Fluvial Processes - Teach the Earth
- A Grave Mistake Scenario?
Act
- How To Brainstorm So Lightning Will Strike - Edutopia
- Project Rubric?
Sample Projects Page
- Rain Gardens - CT Nemo Program
- Small-scale Solutions to Eroding Streambanks - North Carolina Forest Service
Conclusion
Below is a list of comprehensive links to references and resources used throughout the Biodiversity Project Pathway. We would like to thank all the organizations for making their resources and programs available to us and the public, and hope that you enjoy their resources as much as we do!
Observe
Gather
- Bioblitz - iNaturalist
- Seek - iNaturalist
- What's Good In My Hood Workbook - Maryland Environmental Health Network
Reason
- Shannon Wiener Species Diversity Index Calculator - EasyCalculation.com
- Simpson Diversity Index Calculator - EasyCalculation.com
- Schoolyard Biodiversity Investigation Educator Guide - Pacific Education Institute
- Create A Graph - National Center for Education Statistics
Explore
- Wild Bee ID App - Wild Bee ID
- Honeybees vs. Native Pollinators - Tips from a Wildlife Biologist - Texas Parks and Wildlife
- Skype A Scientist
- Watch This Bee Build Her Bee-jeweled Nest - Deep Look by PBS Digital Studios
- The secret inner life of the bumblebee - Fast Company
- MAP: U.S. THREATENED AND ENDANGERED SPECIES BY COUNTY - Center for Biological Diversity
- Interactive Endangered Species Map - Georgia Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Resources Division
- Design Challenge Scoring Rubric - Iridescent Learning
- Get to Know Wild Bee Hotels - Honey Bee Conservancy
- The Horrors of Mass Produced Bee Houses - Colin Purrington
- Build a Bee Hotel - National Geographic
- Bee Hotel Alternatives - Accent On Natural Landscaping
- Attracting Pollinators to your Garden using Native Plants - US Forest Service
- Lost Ladybug Project
- How to Stop Speeding Up Extinctions - This Week In Science
- What Does Biodiversity Matter? - The Guardian
- UN Report: 1 Million Species at Risk of Extinction - National Geographic
- Plant Blindness and Why Ignoring Plants Matters - BBC
- Loss of Overwintering Habitat for Monarch Butterflies - Monarch Joint Venture
- Loss of Breeding Habitat for Monarch Butterflies - Monarch Joint Venture
- Songbirds decline because of Non-native Backyard Plants - Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute
- Chytrid fungus Devastating Amphibians - New York Times
- How Global Population Growth affects the Nitrogen Cycle - Vaclav Smil
- Effect of Pollution on Biodiversity - The Freshwater Blog
- Overfishing: the Other Ocean Threat - The World Economic Forum
- Humans are Overharvesting Megafauna - Science Alert
- Climate change Shifting the Range of Carolina Wrens - Bird Watching
Act
- How To Brainstorm So Lightning Will Strike - Edutopia
- Project Rubric?
Sample Projects Page
Conclusion