Envirothon Lesson Plans

We are ending the semester, and I was given the assignment to assemble the materials used in this course for my own professional goals.  As mentioned below, I am an Envirothon coach, and I have been using this course and blog as a way to better investigate the topics our Envirothon team needs to understand.  Now that I have a much better understanding of many of these topics, I decided to use my final assignment to create lesson plans that will have the students investigate similar topics as they prepare for their Envirothon competition in March.

Below you will find information on the invasive species, tree of heaven. My students and I have come upon this tree many times during various envirothon activities.

Look through the slides below. This will allow you to join me through my thought process of trying to figure out what test kits to purchase. I am trying to figure out what test kit would be the best to use with my school's envirothon team and my students during their resources unit.

Go through the presentation below to learn more about the contribution nutrient runoff from a watershed has on the water chemistry of streams and aquatic environments in general.

Here is a review of the dendrology related to the watersheds and areas our students live in. The trees included in this presentation are ones I and our school's envirothon team have seen examples of in Stafford county.  Not all of them are found in the same abundance.

Apologies for delay in posts

Hello everyone! I apologize for the delay in posts. I had a little bit of a learning curve with figuring out how to use some of these tools. Thank you to our class professor, Jim Egenrieder, for helping me figure those challenges out. I also had some challenges properly delineating the watershed that my school was in. I completely redid my initial presentation. I have now updated all of my slides to more accurately represent the watershed that Mountain View High School is located in. I hope you enjoy looking through them :)

Look through these slides to learn more about the TCC SWCD and the SWCD Envirothon competitions!

Here are more details about certain characteristics of the watershed MVHS is in, I hope you learn some good new information!

Mapping and Delineation of the watershed Mountain View High School is part of

Hi everyone!  On 10/9/16 I updated new slides to this post that more accurately described the watershed I am focusing on.

Welcome!

Welcome to the Lower Potomac Watershed Exploration page. I will update this blog with information on research and findings that I and my students complete the Lower Potomac Watershed related to its characteristics, stewardship, and how to protect it.