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Impact Report

For plan Conservation and Efficient Use of Water (Los Alamos County)
Date November 3, 2008, 3:47 pm
For Objective Short-term Show short-term objectives
Impact Report Based on the objective to coordinate a water fair for local 4th grade students who will show a 25% gain in knowledge about water conservation. Impact: “Make A Splash with Project WET” water festival joined educators, teachers, and students from Los Alamos Public Schools, and the San Ildefonso and Santa Clara Day Schools to spend a day learning various concepts with a theme of “Why Water Matters.” Sponsors of the event included Department of Public Utilities for Los Alamos County; Los Alamos Cooperative Extension Services, the University of New Mexico Los Alamos and New Mexico State University College of Engineering- Institute for Energy and the Environment/WERC. In addition, representatives from the State Land Office, New Mexico Environment Department–Surface Water Bureau, Bradbury Museum, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bandelier National Monument, U.S. Fish & Wildlife, Santa Fe National Forest, as well as Los Alamos resident Robert Benjamin The following were specific activities in which students participated: • Rolling Rivers Trailer-Utilizing a trailer-mounted watershed model, students learned the effects of erosion and how land stewards can protect the land. • Watershed CPR-Utilizing a tabletop watershed model, students learned how human activities can either pollute or protect natural resources. • Conservation-Your Water Your Future-Utilizing a discovery sheet, students gathered descriptive activities posted around the festival grounds to calculate conservation efforts practiced in their daily lives. • What’s in the Water? -Conducting hands-on activities, students learned about acids and bases, what pH is, how to test for pH and compare water tests from varied sources in the community. • A-mazing Groundwater-Utilizing a groundwater model, students discovered what GW is, how it moves beneath the surface of the earth. • Water Tails-Through cultural based story-telling, students learned how water affects the lives of humans and animals in New Mexico. • Discover Your Outdoor World-Utilizing a discovery sheet, students located and journaled habitat and life-cycle data on Chihuahuan Desert flora/fauna. • An Aquatic World-Participating in a hands-on discovery game, students learned about the NM Cutthroat Trout. • Spill It Out-Participating in hands-on discovery, students learned the physical characteristics of water and how water spills. • Blue Beads-Participating as a group, students enacted the components of a watershed and experienced the seasonal changes in surface water run-off and snowmelt. “Make A Splash with Project WET” Water Festival-As reported by teachers, the students met the following:: • NM State Social Studies Standards: Strand Geography, Content Standard II, K-4 Benchmark II-A, Performance Standards 1,2 & 3 • NM State Language Arts Standards: Strand Reading and Listening for Comprehension, Content Standard I, K-4 Benchmark I-B, Performance Standards 1,2 &4 Strand Literature and Media, Content Standard III, K-4 Benchmark III-A • NM State Science Standards: Strand I, Content Standard I, Benchmark I, Performance Standards 1, 2 &4 Strand III, Content Standard I, Benchmark I, Performance Standards 1 & 2 Strand III, Perf. Standards 1, 4, 6. Strand 5, Perf. Standard 1. Strand I: Scientific Thinking and Practice Standard I K-4 Benchmark I: Grade 4 Performance Standards 2,3,4 K-4 Benchmark II: Grade 4 Performance Standards 1,2,3 • NM State Social Studies Standards: Strand Geography, Content Standard II, K-4 Benchmark II-F, Performance Standard 1