Iowa's Water Resources from Contamination to Recreation - A collaborative effort between the Iowa Dept. of Education, UNI and Iowa PBS and the Iowa DNR - Spring/Summer 2024
The course, workshop and curricula
I am also working on a soundtrack for this course - anyone want to help me out? Click Here for the Rivers-N-Music Page
Content presentations - The following links should take you to our recorded content sessions. These will be posted within about 24hr . If you can participate live log in to the provided Zoom link shortly before 4pm each presentation Tuesday. Session lengths will very and will not go past 5:50.
Session 1 (March 5, 2024) = Recording , Slide deck, Homework #1 due March 18 by 5pm
Links for Session 1 = Iowa's Bedrock Aquifers Map , Shoot the 'learn more links' are not active yet… :-/ So use this Iowa Publications Link to check relevant pdfs to learn more
Iowa's Landscapes Map , Here is my IGEIN version of this landform map, with Iowa Land and Sky videos
Session 2 (March 19, 2024) = Groundwater presentation Recording (skip first 10min and also skip from about (4:50 to 5pm), Slide deck, Homework #2 due on or before March 25 by 5pm , will be up on 3/21. Guest Speaker @5pm - Bob Libra Past State Geologist of Iowa and current President of the Iowa Groundwater Association Note IGWA is holding thier Spring Confrence at the Indian Creek Nature Center by Cedar Rapids on April 30. Handout = Groundwater Cycle
Session 3 (March 26 , 2024) = Iowa's Surface water and watershed recording, Slide deck, Homework #3 = Write a no more than two page summary of this week's combined presentations AND reading due on or before April 8. The reading will be provided via a seperate google drive link. Guest Speaker @5pm - Josh Balk, Iowa DNR Source Water and Dry Run Creek (Black Hawk County) Coordinator. Examples of links used this week. Stormwater Calculator, My Water Way, AQuIA
Session 4 (April 9, 2024) = Water in Iowa: Contamination to Recreation, Recording April 9, Slide deck, Homework #4 = Write an essay - What are your thoughts on balancing Agriculture/business and Recreation in Iowa? What do you consider best practics for helping our students think through this issue? Guessing this will be about 2 to 3 pages. Links to join the WIIN Grant Lead School Lead Testing effort Iowa DOE WIIN Grant Link 1 Link 2 , Link 3
Session 5 (Date Change Coming) Chad cannot meet on the original date, Middle to High School Water Curricula, Water Careers and Mitigation in the face of Climate Change
Interesting Models
Cary Institute of Ecosystems - Stream Ecology
IOWATER Program - Discontinued, archived materials
Ohio State University, Ohio Watershed Network - Teacher lesson plans
Penn State, College of Agricultural Sciences - Teacher lesson plans (grades 9-12)
Stream Side Science, Lesson plans and activities, Utah
Resources
Carleton College, Science Education Research Center, Minnesota, Stream activity examples
USGS - A. Water Sceince School > B. Surface Water
U. of Iowa, IIHR, Cedar River Watershed , Iowa Flood Information Center
Dubuque - Bee Branch Creek Restoration
Dry Run Creek Project 2019
2019 UNI Geomorphology Dry Run Creek Assessment
A day in the life of Dry Run Creek, Cedar Falls, Iowa - Under Development
Reading further upstream, *GSI = Geologic Soceity of Iowa
The Maquoketa River Valley, GSI-56 , A USGS report Maquoketa River Flooding
Geology and Natural History of the Volga River, GSI-74
Geomorphology of the Little Sioux River, GSI-34
IOWATER Documents – Lakes and Rivers , Nitrogen in Iowa Rivers , REMAP Survey , Historic Drainage Patterns , Cedar River Nutrient Monitering , River Health
Iowa Rivers and Lakes Map, 2001
Nature, River and Human interactions
NRCS Report on the Wapsipinicon River
Iowa Flood Information Center - U. of Iowa, IFIS