After collecting a sample of benthic macroinvertebrates, use this pollution tolerance index (or Benthic Index of Biological Integrity) to determine the health of the water! Comes in a printable or virtual Google Slides format.
This printable key helps you identify common benthic macroinvertebrates in stream/river ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest. It also comes in an interactive virtual version!
Check out our materials for a virtual benthic macroinvertebrate lesson! Students identified bugs from this folder using this interactive key (printable version here) and recorded their findings with this interactive worksheet. The lesson included a pollution tolerance index that could be printed or used virtually with Google Slides.
This colorful, 4 page Salmon Guide gives you information about the various species of salmon in the Nisqually, including life history and population trends.
Check out all of our participating schools (yellow) and the water quality sites they monitor (blue) here! Click on the water quality site to see up to 25 years worth of historical data. Here’s a User’s Guide with a lot of neat tips on how to make the most of the map!
In this activity, students will map and graph the advance and retreat of the Nisqually Glacier and state the relationship between weather patterns and terminus movement, as well as the impacts of climate change on Mount Rainer’s glaciers.
In this activity, students will graph and make correlations between snowfall and glacial advance and retreat of Mount Rainier’s Nisqually Glacier.
Water Quality Monitoring is going virtual! Click here to access the new Water Quality Monitoring Portal! Want to learn more about the portal and how to get the most out of it? Watch our video here! Interactive Journals/Data Sheets To supplement the portal, you can add this Google Slide Interactive […]
Here’s the first draft of our Water Quality Curriculum created in partnership with South Sound GREEN. Let us know if you use it and what you think!
Use this worksheet to introduce the concepts of Water Quality Monitoring to students. Students will read this handout, then answer questions and complete a crossword.