Curriculum Library
Welcome to the Curriculum Library! We have posted curriculum work developed by educators in the combined three sessions of Watershed For Every Classroom.
The Essential Questions that provide the focus of these units are listed by grade level here:
Elementary
What is a river and what is its connection to us? Unit Overview|Bird's Eye View|Student Work Holly Brennan-Cook
How does the White River affect the health of our community? Unit Overview|Birds Eye View|Student Work David Desimone, Social Studies
How do people in our community try to solve river related water problems? Unit Overview|Birds Eye View|Sites of Engagement Alicia Hanford
How does how we live affect where we live? How do we take care of our soil? Unit Overview|Birds Eye View|Assessment Tool|Student Work Anna Howell, Devon MacLeod
What are the stories of our watershed? Unit Overview|Birds Eye View|Student Work|Assessment Tool Patricia Hurlburt and Megan Wellford (see Middle Level)
How do the Earth's processes affect the physical and cultural landscape in our community? Kate Mattina, Aziza Malik, Shannon Roesch
What is a river and what is its connection to us? Unit Overview|Birds Eye View|Sites of Engagement|Student Work Hope Yeager, Science
How do living things interact and depend on each other in our Lake Champlain? Unit Overview|Birds Eye View|Curriculum Sample Sarah Wolfe-Gordon, Science and Language Arts
How does water behave in our watershed? Eve Dubois, Science
What impact does a watershed have on the natural communities within it? Lise Erickson, Science
What can I do to prevent erosion and maintain the water quality in the outdoor classroom which will assist in improving the quality of water in the Champlain Basin? Kitty Muzzy, Science
Why is Elm Swamp a good home for our birds? How can we help protect Elm Swamp so it continues to be a good home for our birds? Brie Tompkins, Science / Literacy
Part 1: What are the basic economic activities of farming? Part 2: What are some ways farming impacts the Lake Champlain basin? What can farmers do to farm the land in a way that has a positive impact on the Lake Champlain basin? Emily Ankerson, Social Science
Middle School
How do you humans impact the water quality of the Lamoille River? Unit Overview|Birds Eye View|Sites of Engagement|Student Work Leah Bronner, Science
What and where is our watershed and how can we keep it healthy? Digital Storytelling Pam Cyr, Science
How does our community affect the waterways in Fletcher, Vermont? Unit Overview|Birds Eye View|Sites of Engagement Tracy Godin, Denette Locke, Science/STEM/Math
How do the abiotic and biotic factors tell the story of water in Shelburne Unit Overview|Birds Eye View|Assessment Tool|Student Handout Devon Morrill
What are the stories of our watershed? Unit Overview|Birds Eye View|Student Work|Assessment Tool Megan Wellford and Patricia Hurlburt (see Elementary Level)
What are the types of impacts that humans have on our watershed? Unit Overview|Birds Eye View|Curriculum Sample Lorelei Westbrook and Laura Zettler, Science
What does it mean to be a steward of the land and water? Wendy Scott, Literacy
What is an objective argument and who makes that determination? Cris Milks, Math
How Can I Use Mathematics to Understand the Story about My Watershed? Colleen Ryan and Michael Mark, Math
As we live on an island in Lake Champlain, what do we need to know about the Lake Champlain Basin in order to live here well, now and in the future? Karin Ames, Science
How do human activities affect the ecology of the lake and what actions are necessary to protect the future health of Lake Champlain? Sandra Fary, Science
How does water behave in our watershed and why is it important? Erin Hopper, Science
How does Barre affect the water quality of the Stevens Branch of The Winooski River and how can we keep the water clean into the future? Pam Nadeau, Science
What is the Saranac River Watershed? Where does it come from? Where will it go? How does human activity affect it along the way? Barbara Napper, Science
How do organisms and the cells within them acquire and process energy for survival? How do biotic and abiotic resources affect the equilibrium of organisms within their ecosystem? How do human activities impact the Earth's resources and the sustainability of life within ecosystems? How does decomposition support life within an ecosystem? David Parmalee, Science
What should St. Albans residents know about St. Albans Bay? Tina Phelps, Social Science
How are the earth’s resources important to us and to what extent does our local human activity affect these resources? Terry Robinson, Science
Why are wetlands important? Natalie Sabuda, Science
How are we in North Troy, Vermont connected to the Lake Champlain Basin? Chris Shaffer, Science
How does human activity affect organisms living in the Winooski River Watershed? Ellen Temple and Ralph Hylind, Science
What does East Creek mean to me? Barb Young, Science
High School
What invasive species are affecting our local watershed? Unit Overview|Birds Eye View|Sites of Engagement Chris Murphy, Science
How does Science help me understand the systems around me? Unit Overview|Birds Eye View Ross Perry, Science
What is the quality and value of trout fishing opportunities within our watershed, and how can those opportunities be improved? Aaron McGee, Science
What can we learn about the Lake Champlain Basin by studying the water quality of the Lake? What is the current health of Lake Champlain? What are the current lake issues? Sarah Strack, Science
How can we protect essential water? Patricia Raab, Science
How can humans protect water quality within their watershed? Dan Rosenthal, Geography
How can interconnected relationships tell us the health of our watershed? David Trevithick, Science
How healthy is Grice Brook? John Little, Science
College
How is the Winooski River Watershed, in which we live, a complex assemblage of systems, both human and natural, and what can we do to positively impact this bioregion? Bert Dyer, Interdisciplinary
Non-formal Educators
How does the health of Standing Stone Creek impact our community? Unit Overview|Birds Eye View|Assessment Tool Celina Seftas, Water Specialist
How do we learn to value that which we do not know? Kurt Valenta, Interdisciplinary
How does the beaver pond, a wetland in Potton, tell the ecology and the beauty of the LCB and offer students the opportunity to demonstrate their scientific knowledge, their artistic talent, their community engagement and their sense of place (appartenance)? Isabelle Gregoire, Science, Geography, Language Arts