Nitrogen and Water Quality BismarckHenning

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Nitrogen and Water Quality Bismarck-Henning

• Team Members
• Ron Feltes
• Cheryl Brumett

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Objectives

• Help students understand . . .
• How nitrogen gets into our water supplies
• How nitrogen affects water quality

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Teachers as Learners

• REVITALISE Workshops
• In-School Workshops
• Meetings with Experts in the field
• G K-12 Fellow Teachers

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Teachers as Teachers

• Spreading the word
• Implementation in the Classroom
• Planning new Projects
• Continuing as Teachers as Learners

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Teachers and Students as Learners
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LearningNitrogenProperties

• Liquid Nitrogen
• used to deflate balloon

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Controlled Experiment
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Controlled Data
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How does Nutrients/Bacteria Affect Nitrogen Level
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Using Existing Data
Data from the Internet Students assist in
taking samples at site
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Collecting Data
Use Existing Data from Internet Shared
Data from USGS Collected Data Compare Data
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Filming Documentary
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Combining Student Data with Existing Data
Highlighted Data shows USGS site students were
able to test.
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Visualize in Gnu-Plot
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Tracing Watershed in Stella

• Rainfall
• Fertilizer Input

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How does Nitrogen Contaminate Water

• Ground Water Simulator
• Field Run off
• Septic leaks
• Animal waste

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Students as Teachers

• Documentary
• Share with students not in attendance
• Use for future classes

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Impacting the Student
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Where are we Going??

• Current Projects will be ongoing
• Groundwater Simulator
• Aquariums
• Watershed Model
• Phase II
• Watershed Model
• Plant Intake on Nitrogen
• GIS data to map test sites
• AVS Express 3D visualizations
• Probes to allow more in depth testing