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Get in the ZONE Prepare your learning space Pen, paper on desk Distractions cleared away Finish side conversations Check the Objectives Read the entire board Purposeful Posture Get oxygen to your brain Eyes on the speaker
Environmental Systems How can Houstonians make choices and design our lives in a way that preserves natural resources? Where do YOU fit in the Houston Ecosystem?
What’s YOUR role?
When you are signaled, go get your interactive notebook. If it’s not here, pick up the Houston map on Lab table 1!
Interactive Notebook is required. Left side Your analysis of the information Combination of information from more than one page Right side Date, Title Information given to you One big idea per page Objective sheet!
Home Sweet Home: Houston!
Houston – do you remember? Intersection of four ecological zones: Prairies Bayous Forests Galveston Bay
Brainstorm game! You have ONE MINUTE with your neighbor to write everything you can think of that has to do with the topic. Ready? The topic is: Gulf Coastal Prairie!
Gulf Coastal Prairie/ Katy Prairie
What connects us?
We are the Bayou City!
Waterways were used for transportation
Official founding of Houston Allen Brothers – confluence (meeting point) of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak bayou – farthest point upstream where a barge could turn around.
What resources are emphasized in this painting?
Early economies Cattle Cotton Sugar Timber PLUS waterways to move them!
1870’s: Railroads carried goods to ships and to markets east. “Houston – where 17 railroads meet the sea.” (late 1800’s marketing moto)
Port of Houston built 1914 – today it moves the most foreign tonnage in the US
Wow! 1,000 people are moving to Texas every day now. Houston is the 4 th largest city in the nation – but we are growing faster than NYC, LA and Chicago...COMBINED!
August 26: Houston’s Four Ecoregions Find Buffalo Bayou. Put a star where you are sitting now!
August 27/28: Houston’s History and Resources Why did the Allen Brothers start the city of Houston at the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak bayou?
Hint: Waterways were used for transportation
Official founding of Houston Allen Brothers – confluence (meeting point) of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak bayou – farthest point upstream where a barge could turn around.
August 29 th : Watersheds Definition: An area of land drained by a body of water. Watersheds are separated by changes in elevation. Watersheds connect ecoregions. What happens in one part of a watershed moves to other parts. Storm drains carry water from streets directly to the closest bayou.
What happens on the prairie does not stay on the prairie! What things move from here to the Bay?
The majestic plastic bag!
Watershed terms to know and identify on any map: Upstream/downstream River source – where the water starts River mouth – where the water ends up Tributary – contributes water to a larger body of water Floodplain – flat area likely to flood
Check for understanding: Thumbs up when you can answer all of these 1. What connects the prairie to the Bay? 2. What is something that moves from the prairie to the Bay and what problem does it cause? 3. What is a watershed? 4. When will the interactive notebooks be picked up for a grade? 5. How were the bayous important when Houston was first founded?