• Students evaluate the environmental, political and economic consequences of their actions, and grapple with the difficult nature of making environmentally sound choices.
• Students understand the idea that neighboring counties’ decisions affect one another because water and air pollution move via watersheds and airsheds, and they integrate that idea into the decisions and debates.

Students will know the role tides play in plant community distribution and nutrient uptake in a freshwater tidal wetland.

Students analyze the data collected from the leaf packs and create lab reports.

Students Create Leaf Packs

Introduce concepts of basic stream ecology, macroinvertebrate ecology and experimental project design to students.