Albemarle County Public Schools Camp Albemarle Field Trip Preparation Rivanna (South Fork) Watershed Experience

Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools What is a Watershed? It is as simple as asking --- “If a drop of rain lands on a spot, where will it go (flow)?” A watershed is a geographic area draining to a common stream, lake or river. Watersheds can be little or big --- sometimes really big.

Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Water runs off the land …

Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Don’t Forget - The ground also absorbs water just like me! Sponge Bob says:

Albemarle County Public Schools What is your watershed address? It can be local or regional. It can be small or big.

Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Camp Albemarle’s Watershed “Rivanna (South Fork) Watershed” Camp Albemarle Rivanna (South Fork) Moormans Mechums Charlottesville

Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Stone-Robinson’s Watershed “Rivanna Watershed” Stone-Robinson

Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Regional Watershed “James River Watershed”

Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools The Whole Watershed “Chesapeake Bay Watershed” Charlottesville Maryland

Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools What Little River Runs by Camp Albemarle? The Moormans River

Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Is this river clean? Is it healthy? One way to find out is to look and see what lives in the river. What types of organisms (living things) can we find in the river? At the river, we will be collecting macroinvertebrates. What are macroinvertebrates?

Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Life Cycles

Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Life Cycles & Habitats

Albemarle County Public Schools Very Sensitive Critters Organisms that are very sensitive to polluted and stagnant water!

Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Mayfly

Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Stonefly

Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Gilled Snail

Albemarle County Public Schools Sensitive Critters Organisms that are sensitive to polluted and stagnant water!

Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Dobsonfly Hellgrammite

Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Dragonfly Damselfly

Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Crayfish

Albemarle County Public Schools Tolerant Critters Organisms that are not sensitive to polluted and/or stagnant water!

Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Crane fly

Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Aquatic Worm

Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Leech

Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools How do we collect these critters? We use special nets to catch the critters. Then we carefully look for the critters as they squirm around in the net.

Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Enviroscape Enviroscape is a model that shows you how a watershed actually works.

Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools See You at Camp Albemarle!!! At the River!

Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools That’s All!