Teacher Resources
Videos
- Bacterial Water Quality Monitoring (Dr. Sally Hornor, Anne Arundel Community College)
What Lives in Your Water? Handouts
- Instructor handout (Environmental focus) - Contains background material, lab protocols, and some postlab ideas.
- Student handout - For photocopying and distribution to students
- Water Collection Data Sheet - This is the form that we include with the water collection kits so the students can record where and when the sample was collected, and various data points of interest such as water color, speed of movement, temperature, etc.
- Google Maps Instructions - Use these guidelines to enter your data points onto a Google Map.
PowerPoint Slides
These are sets of PowerPoint slides that can be used to introduce the lab activities to your students.
- Introduction (Biomedical focus) - This is designed as a 50-minute lecture for teachers to use with their students to introduce issues of waterborne disease. It uses cholera as its primary disease model. The file includes slides and speaker's notes.
- Introduction (Environmental focus) - This is designed as a 50-minute lecture for teachers to use with their students to introduce water quality from an enviornmental perspective. It emphasized topics such as stream order and sources of fecal pollution. The file includes slides and speaker's notes.
- Lab Procedures - Demonstration of lab activity, including photos of all apparatus and procedures
MathBench Prelab
- What's in your Watershed? - This online tutorial was developed to prepare students for the lab activities. It can be done in class or assigned as homework for the students to complete outside of class time. It covers stream order, watersheds, impervious surfaces, and an introduction to E. faecalis culturing and counting.
- Printer-friendly version - Contains all the content of the online module in a pdf format, with all non-essential graphics removed. This lacks the interactive features of the online modules.
- One page summary - Provides a brief explanation of the module learning objectives, content, a sample exercise, and references for instructors who want more background or additional teaching ideas.
- A quiz assessing student understanding of the MahBench module content is available via email. Contact hhmi@umd.edu.
Prelab Activities
These are activities submitted by teachers who have participated in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Interdisciplinary Science Partnership in previous years.
Articles for background information
- PBS Newshour - Cholera Epidemic Causes Havoc in Haiti - A video from PBS concerning the Cholera outbreaks that occured in the wake of the 2010 Earthquake in Haiti
- Case Studey: Cholera by Edward Laws - A general article that introduces Cholera, the history and epidemiology of Cholera and the connection between Cholera/human health and the oceans/watershed.
- Pollution Prevention Fact Sheet: Animal Waste Collection - An article about the impact of non-human waste on the enivornment and a report on the limitations of implementing good waste management initiatives.
- Reducing Pet Waste - A report by the Southwest Florida Water Management District on efforts to implement pet-waste reduction measures.
- Distribution of Vibrio vulnificus in the Chesapeake Bay - A scientific journal article about the distribution of a Cholera species within the Chesapeake Bay.
- Is Your Swimming Spot Dirtier Than a Toilet? - An article examining the bacterial content of various locations on the Chesapeake Bay - This article demonstrates the techniques that are used in the lab activity and can help students to understand the connection between this in-class activity and the real world.
Powerpoint presentations
- What Lives in Your Water - Jeffrey Holstine, Laurel High School, Laurel MD
- Chesapeake Bay Watershed Interdisciplinary Science Partnership - Katherin Maddox, Dulaney High School, Timonium MD
Activites, Worksheets and Lessons
- PBS Newshour Cholera Exercise - Used in conjunction with the PBS Newshour article concerning the Cholera Epidemic in Haiti
- Reviewing a Scientific Article - Use in conjuction with the article Distribution of Vibrio vulnificus in the Chesapeake Bay or any other scientific paper.
Postlab Activities
These are activities submitted by teachers who have participated in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Interdisciplinary Science Partnership in previous years.
- Discussion on Collaborative Research - An opportunity to discuss with your class the pros and cons of collaboration in the scientific community and within this project specifically.
- Lab report rubric - Have students complete a lab report in the style of a scientific paper. The rubric provides a starting point of expectations as well as a grading guideline.
- Pet waste phamplet - Have your students create and informational poster or flyer to educate the community about the enviornmental impacts of pet waste on the watershed.
- Examples of previous pamphlets: