Day+1+-+Connecting+to+Natural+Systems

===Please make any comments about our activities today - what was useful to you, how might you use what you learned and how might you adapt what we did to meet the needs of your curricula? During the school year or as you think of how to use these lessons, please make comments as well.===

Making a "paper watershed" to look at landforms, predict where water will flow and collect and look at how human habitations might affect both flow and water quality.
 * 1) Dynamic Watershed (from NJ WATERS)**



How might you use this in your classroom?

Group definitions of "watershed" 1) An area of land between two high points where water runs off and collects. 2) An area of land sharing a common accumulation of water that is determined by topography and land use. 3) A system that includes the route that moving water takes to its holding area. 4) An area of land between two or more ridges where all the water collects
 * 2) Think-Pair-Share: Creating a Common Definition of "WATERSHED"**

We will revisit these at the end of the week to see if we want to make any changes to our definitions.


 * 3) Identifying "real" watersheds: Looking at topography and land use.**



Looking at the Raritan Watershed in its entirety (the largest watershed/basin that exists within one state on the East Coast). What were some of the things you noticed as we looked at the map?
 * 4) Topo Twister (from NJ WATERS)**

5) Take a look at this to pographic map from the mid-1800's (downloaded from the Rutgers Map Collection:



Locate where Duke Farms is today. Does this help at all in answering the question about whether the Old Foundation was built on an existing hill or if J. B. Duke built the hill? Also look at the location of the railroads and canals in the area around Raritan before the Duke's began any modifications they made in the area. What do you think the areas surrounded by dotted lines represent?

6) Great article on the importance and challenges in getting kids outdoors.

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