Exploration Worksheet
- Choose your team member jobs: Time Keeper, Reporter,
Equipment Manager, Leader
- Carve a five minute river:
- label features of river with flags
- each member draws the carved river
- Prepare Dam:
- Cut spillway into dam
- Choose good location for dam placement
- Dig reservoir, and place dam downstream
- Run another five minute river with new dam placed
- Each member draw river after second
run
- Write down observed changes
STOP: MEET for Class Discussion
- Place two toxic sites in your watershed, NOT directly
in the river
- Run a five minute river
- Test two areas for sample of soil
- Place straw in soil were you want to
test
- Pull out and keep straw and contents
intact
- Draw your river after the third five minute run
- Write down observations
- CLEAN UP
MEET FOR CLASS DISCUSSION