Format
1. This program begins with a introduction to EarthEcho International and our guest hosts.
2. We will discuss importance of water quality and conservation
3. We hear stories shared from EarthEcho Water Challenge partners leading water monitoring programs in critical bodies of water around the world.
4. Participants will be inspired to monitor and protect their own waterways on World Water Day and throughout the year through the EarthEcho Water Challenge.
5. Time is allowed for questions and answers.
Objectives
The participant will:
- understand importance of water quality and conservation;
- learn about various careers in the water industry;
- hear stories shared from EarthEcho Water Challenge partners leading water monitoring programs in critical bodies of water around the world;
- be inspired to monitor and protect their own waterways on World Water Day and throughout the year through the EarthEcho Water Challenge.
Standards Alignment
National Standards
NGSS
MS-ESS3-2. Analyze and interpret data on natural hazards to forecast future catastrophic events and inform the development of technologies to mitigate their effects.
MS-ESS3-3. Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
ESS3.C: Human Impacts on Earth Systems • Human activities have significantly altered the biosphere, sometimes damaging or destroying natural habitats and causing the extinction of other species. But changes to Earth’s environments can have different impacts (negative and positive) for different living things. • Typically as human populations and per-capita consumption of natural resources increase, so do the negative impacts on Earth unless the activities and technologies involved are engineered otherwise.
MS-ESS3-4. Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems.
State Standards
OCEAN LITERACY PRINCIPLES
Principle 6: The ocean and humans are inextricably interconnected.
- The ocean affects every human life. It supplies freshwater (most rain comes from the ocean) and nearly all Earth’s oxygen. The ocean moderates the Earth’s climate, influences our weather, and affects human health.
- Everyone is responsible for caring for the ocean. The ocean sustains life on Earth and humans must live in ways that sustain the ocean. Individual and collective actions are needed to effectively manage ocean resources for all.