Lesson 9– Description:

Modeling Residential Pollution Impacts:Students design their “dream home” on a water front. The images are then linked together to form a river and students must try to manage the flow of garbage downstream.

Unit Goals:List and describe the pollution problems associated with the Bay.

Lesson Objectives:Model the transfer of trash and chemical pollution throughout the Bay ecosystem.Describe examples of non-point source pollution and explain how they enter the Bay water shed.

Living a dream…

Living a nicer dream…

Living the dream…

Brings a new meaning to swimming pools!

Water Fun

Water Fun

Those who can afford that dream…

Don’t forget these fun activities:•Water Skiing, Wake boarding, tubing…

•Beautiful sunsets

•Dinner on the docks

So What’s your dream home?•Design your dream home/yard on the water front!• Must have water at the bottom of your design• Majority of your drawing should be colored.

•Don’t forget:• Transportation• Fun• And anything else you can dream up!

Think about…Answer the following questions now that we’ve seen the impacts we have on each other and our water ways:•Who was most effected by the pollution and why?

•What materials were most damaging to properties and water ways?

•Whose responsibility is it to clean the trash?

•Can do you prove where the trash came from? Why?

•What could be done to enable living on the water more eco-friendly?

•Should there be laws requiring these homes use pollution prevention?