Water is vital to life. Wetlands perform essential functions, from controlling floods, to purifying water, to providing wildlife habitat. They are also amazing places to explore nature. Through exploring a wetland and meeting a live animal, students learn why water and wetlands are important to both humans and wildlife.
Wet and Wild: Water and Wetlands
- Program Type: School
- Duration: 75 min.
- Environment: Outdoors
- Location: SLNSC
- Ages: Grade 5
- Availability: Fall, Spring, Summer
Next Generation Science Standards Connections
- 5-PS3-1. Use models to describe that energy in animals’ food (used for body repair, growth, and motion and to maintain body warmth) was once energy from the sun.
- 5-LS1-1. Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.
- 5-LS2-1. Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.
- 5-ESS2-1 Earth’s Systems – Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.
- 5-ESS2-2: Earth’s Systems – Describe and graph the amounts and percentages of water and fresh water in various reservoirs to provide evidence about the distribution of water on Earth.
- 5-ESS3-1: Earth and Human Activity – Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.