Watershed

Watershed

A Tutorial of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Website

Learning Objectives:

• We will learn how to use the EPA website to explore watersheds in our community and elsewhere.

• We will analyze data to provide evidence that disruptions (natural or human-made) to any physical or biological component of an ecosystem can lead to shifts in all its populations.

Multiple Choice

Why is water important?

• It is the focus of the Hydrologic Cycle.

• It is necessary for all life on Earth.

• Water is not that important.

Go to this website:

https://mywaterway.epa.gov/

Go to the the STATE tab:

Select MASSACHUSETTS from the drop-down menu and hit GO.

There are 4 options to choose from:

Swimming, Eating Fish, Aquatic Life, and Other.

Multiple Choice

Which option are we NOT looking at?

• Drinking Water.

• Aquatic Life.

• Swimming.

• Eating Fish.

Swimming

What do you notice?

Eating Fish

What do you notice?

Aquatic Life

What do you notice?

Other

What do you notice?

Poll

What are you most curious about?

• Swimming

• Eating Fish

• Aquatic Life

• Other

Go to the COMMUNITY tab and type in YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD.

Use Zip Code and City

Click the Tab labeled DRINKING WATER:

This is how your image might look.

Here is Miss Wadhams' Example

https://mywaterway.epa.gov/

I went to the COMMUNITY TAB and typed in 02150, Chelsea, MA:

I clicked on Drinking Water.

Open Ended

What do you still have questions about?

Let's practice together!

What will you look up next?