Assessment
Students will create a poster, website or press release explaining the project they conducted to help local watersheds. In the poster, website or press release, students will use text, pictures and photographs to identify a problem affecting local watersheds and show what the students did to help these local watersheds. Students will hang the poster somewhere where other students can see it, publish the website on the internet or send the press release to the local newspaper.

Scoring rubric (out of 5 points)

• Create a poster, website: 1 point
• Identify a problem in the local area affecting watersheds: 1 point
• Use text and pictures to show what students did to help local watersheds: 2 points
• Publicly present the poster, website or press release: 1 point
• Total: 5 points

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