Adopt-a-Watershed, Forest Ecosystems (7-9)

Contact Information

Reservations/Ordering Info: call, fax or on-line ordering

Main Contact: Angela Green, Office Administrator

Phone: 530-628-5334

Email: aaw@adopt-a-watershed.org

Mailing Address: PO Box 1850

Hayfork, California 96041

Last Updated: 03-21-2006

Compendium Resource

Reviewer Comments

General Content
"The combination of AAW and FOSS presents a complete package."

"A great supplement and teacher resource."

Pedagogy
"High quality questions and good cross-curricular connections."

"Good use of process skills (observing, inferring, etc.)."

"A hands-on approach, actually getting students involved."

Teacher Usability
"Some labs will require a great deal of teacher preparation time."

"Some of the activities require several field trips."

EE Program/Resource ss Details

Provided by: Adopt-A-Watershed Adopt-A-Watershed, National Headquarters

Description: Adopt-a-Watershed is an integrated K-12 science curriculum that uses a local watershed as the focal point for learning. Each grade-specific watershed unit offers classroom activities and resources, field studies, restoration projects, and community action projects. Resource lists, equipment information, and supplemental lesson plans from other sources are also provided. At the 7-9 level and for the purpose of this compendium, one unit was reviewed. In Forest Ecosystems (1999, 174 p.) students learn about the forest ecosystem in their watershed through 14 lessons, community action projects, tree succession studies, and journal writing. This unit is accompanied by the Full Option Science System (FOSS): Environments Unit. Student worksheets are available in Spanish.

Web Address: http://adopt-a-watershed.org

Program/Resource Type: Curriculum

Audience Served: 6, 7, 8, 9

Cost: $72 per book

EE Focus: Ecosystems-Forest, Ecosystems-Watershed, Pollution Prevention, Water, Restoration

Academic Focus: Language Arts, Science, Interdisciplinary

Counties Served: Statewide

Additional Languages: Spanish

View Sample Pages (PDF)

Report Card

Overall Grade
General Content
Presentation
Pedagogy
Teacher Usability
Community

A-
A
A-
A
A-
A

Discipline Emphasis

Science
History/Social Science
Health
Mathematics
Visual/Performing Arts
Language Arts
Industrial/Vocational Ed.
Foreign Language