River+curriculum

Ríos, 河, Rivière A vertically integrated unit on Rivers

What do you all think of creating a series of integrated lessons to teach at all levels that deal with different river systems in the worlds we teach about? I think it would be amazing to have all our students studying river systems around the world at the same time. It would be really amazing if we could get them all together after we taught about it to talk to the rest of the school about the systems they studied. Ideally, this could occur right before the Sophomore/Senior trip where the focus of the trips is on watersheds.

The basic documents for what I am planning to do in my classes are below, and you are welcome to use them or adapt them as you please. There are a series of PDF documents, which are watershed maps for the Rio Bravo/Rio Grande, Sarapiquí (in Costa Rica where our research station will be), the Magdalena (Colombia), Orinoco (Venezuela), Amazonas, Paraná (Paraguay and Argentina), Uruguay (Brazil and Uruguay) and Yangtze. There is an outline of what my lessons are. My Spanish V class will be building a bilingual website, so if your students want to add to it, just let me know and I'll get you the address.





Below are some general useful files about biodiversity, land usage, and other interesting stuff:



Here are the files that are only in jpeg format, of the Sarapiquí in Costa Rica: