Grade 2

• What is a watershed?
• Is a watershed living?
• Why is a watershed important to me?
• Who looks after our watersheds?
• What watershed do you live in?

• Watershed Brochure
  • Maps – Morrison Creek , Brooklyn Creek, Millard-Piercy Creek
• Watershed Image
• https://youtu.be/8zg2cWtXb-4
• https://estuarymap.projectwatershed.ca/Water.html
• Glacier to Estuary Wall Map (optional) – available through the Resource Center

Science/Social Studies/Language Arts:

• Processing and analyzing data and information
• Comprehending and connecting
• Communicating
• Working cooperatively to confirm what they have learned

• Review front panel of brochure – What is a watershed? and Watershed Image.
• Look at the map in the brochure, find your school on the map.
• Review the definitions that accompany the brochure.
• Identify the headwaters of the watershed and the outlet.
• Locate your watershed on the wall map. Talk about the watersheds around your watershed.
• (optional) Locate the Puntledge Watershed on the wall map. This is also called Comox Lake watershed. Explain that this is where our drinking water comes from.
• Watch https://youtu.be/8zg2cWtXb-4.  
• Students to answer Watershed Brochure questions in a group.
• Give each student a watershed brochure to take home ask them to use the brochure and/or the link https://estuarymap.projectwatershed.ca/Water.html to locate their house (parents to assist).
• Next day see if students live in the same watershed as their school or in a different watershed.

Contact the stewardship group associated with your watershed for a watershed walk or in class talk. Their contact information is on the brochure.

Tsolum River Restoration Society will also come in and give a talk and demonstration with their Tsolum River Watershed model.