Your First Online Assignment!

Hello 4th Graders!

Welcome to Ms. Bragg's Blog! In the future, you will start many online assignments here.

Today half of the class will be working the computer lab with Mr. D., while the other half is doing a scientific demonstration in the Science Lab. After Book Buddies, we'll switch!

To-Do List:

1. Follow the Ways of the Watershed website and complete the worksheet on your clipboard.
2. Next, watch this video: What is a Watershed? It's only 6 minutes long.
3. Then, go to this illustration of Nonpoint Source Pollution, click on spots where you think someone is doing something that might damage the watershed.
4. Finally, play Pond-er This to find out what can happen to the environment when a town wants to build something new.
5. If you finish all that, you are free to explore the other links in the Science>Watershed folder on portaportal.

SONG!: "Where the Land is Wet" from Bill Nye

(Ooh, wet)
You might think that the wetlands are a place
(Ooh, wet)
Where the land is wet and we throw stuff away
(Ooh, wet)
But listen to me, 'cause that is not the way
(Ooh, wet)
We should treat our wetlands today

Gonna get mud on your boots
Water on your hands
Just follow me 'cause we're gonna take a trip into the

Wetlands
A place where the ground is wet
Wetlands
A place that we should protect
Wetlands
A place where the ground is wet
Wetlands
A place that we should protect

SONG!: "Take Me to the River" from Bill Nye

LYRICS

Think I know why rivers are so cool
They flow downstream, that's always true
They shape the land, on that you can bet
I haven't seen one that hasn't yet

I wanna flow
With them
Downhill
I love the streams

Take me to the river
It's full of fresh water
Dip me in the river
I dig that fresh water

SONG!: "Causing the Erosion" from Bill Nye

LYRICS

Every mountain, rock, and hill
Wears away, erodes until
It's sediment or sand
Carried off by rain and wind

Oooh, it's a change that doesn't happen fast
That jagged edge won't last

Pounding water, wind, and ice
Storms and falling rain
They are causing the erosion
Even chemicals we know that are in the air
They are causing the erosion

The surface of our planet Earth
Each mountain top and rocky cliff
Eroded by the elements
It's a well-known fact

Pounding water, wind, and ice
Storms and falling rain
They are causing the erosion
Even chemicals we know that are in the air
They are causing the erosion

Pounding water, wind, and ice
Storms and falling rain
They are causing the erosion
Even chemicals we know that are in the air
They are causing the erosion