Adopt-a-Watershed, What is a Watershed?

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
"This is the way I would like to get my science concepts across to my students!"

Presentation
"The unit matrix is helpful, as are the timeline and grouping suggestions."

"Good organization of lesson plans."

Pedagogy

"The kindergarten unit seems too advanced."

"Very hands-on!"

Teacher Usability
"Very well organized."

"Does require a lot of time and materials."

"Focuses on long-term [studies]."

Focus on Communities
"Emphasis on restoration projects and community partner resources."

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, masters for handouts, and supplemental lesson plans from other sources are also provided. At the K-3 level for the purposes of this compendium, Animals, Trees, and What Is a Watershed? were reviewed.

In What Is a Watershed? (1998 revised, 134 p., $37.00) ten lessons focus the living and non-living components of watersheds. Tree planting in a local watershed is a focal point of this unit.

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

Program/Resource Type: Curriculum

Audience Served: K, 1, 2, 3

Cost: $37 per book

EE Focus: Ecosystems-General, Ecosystems-Watershed, Nature Awareness, Plants & Animals, Restoration

Academic Focus: Science

Counties Served: Statewide

Additional Languages: Spanish

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Report Card

Overall Grade
General Content
Presentation
Pedagogy
Teacher Usability
Community

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A
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A
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A

Discipline Emphasis

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