Welcome to Your Watershed Lesson Starters
Examine what makes local Maryland watersheds important with elementary students. Explore factors that affect the movement of water, from the process of how water cycles throughout our planet to what makes the Chesapeake Bay a watershed. Use the classroom-ready lesson starters to introduce students to a new science topic and get them ready to learn.
Select a topic below to find video clips, essential and guiding questions, learning extensions, and other student supports to use in your classroom.
How does the water from rivers, lakes, streams, and oceans end up in the sky to form as rain?
What is causing the water to move up into the atmosphere or down from the clouds and to the Earth’s surface?
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What does the term watershed mean? And why is a watershed important to us?
What are some ways in which we can protect and preserve our watersheds from greater harm?
