Overview
Originally this unit was designed to teach my students about the Chesapeake Bay. After all it is less than 90 miles away, yet the majority of my inner city students have never been there. The unit was going to be adaptable so it could fit other watersheds. Then through the course of writing it, something happened. I was using information about salt marshes in California to write about the Chesapeake Bay. I began to understand principles of ecology and ecosystems. Realizing that the principles are the same regardless of the ecosystem, I began to embed them throughout the unit. Now I have a unit that will not only empower my students to care about a watershed, but a unit to empower kids everywhere to become stewards of their our environment.
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