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WaterWays - Nature-Based Solutions

Product description

Meet and speak to your neighbors and listen to the problems in the community before helping equip your neighborhood against environmental threats like heat, air pollution, and flooding. Learn about nature-based solutions before using them to save the day!

Developed in collaboration with the Wildlife Conservation Society, Hudson River Park and Mount Sinai's Transdisciplinary Center for Early Environmental Exposure, with funding support from the National Institutes of Health.

Nature-Based Solutions includes:

A personalized digital science journal and an augmented reality experience, accessible by phone or browser using webVR.
40 minutes of interactive activities where students are scientists engaged with water science and water stewardship.
Assessment dashboard for educators to monitor and scaffold student learning

Next Generation Science Standards:
Science Engineering Practices

Developing and Using Models
Analyzing and Interpreting Data
Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions
Engaging in Argument from Evidence
Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

Disciplinary Core Idea:

LS2.A Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
LS2.B Matter and Energy Transfer in Ecosystems
LS2.C Ecosystem Dynamics, Functioning, and Resilience
LS4.D Biodiversity and Humans
ETS1.A Defining Engineering Problems
ETS1.C Optimizing the Design Solution
ESS2.A Earth Materials and Systems
ESS3.C Human Impacts on Earth Systems

Crosscutting Concepts

Systems and System Models
Cause and Effect
Patterns
Energy and Matter
Scale Proportion and Quantity

Connections to Excellence in Environmental Education - Guidelines for Learning (K-12)

Strand 1 (Analysis and Interpretation Skills): A, C, E, F, G
Strand 2 (Environmental Processes and Systems): 2.1 A, B. 2.2 A, C, D. 2.3 A. 2.4 A,E
Strand 3 (Skills for Understanding and Addressing Environmental Issues): 3.1 A, B, C
Strand 4 (Personal and Civic Responsibility): B, C