1. Albemarle County Public Schools Camp Albemarle Field Trip Preparation Watershed Experience

2. 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.

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

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

5. Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Moormans River Watershed Camp Albemarle

6. Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Mechums Moormans South Fork North Fork Rivanna River Charlottesville Rivanna River Watershed

7. Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools The James River Watershed Rivanna River James River

8. Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools The Whole Watershed “Chesapeake Bay Watershed” Rivanna River James River

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

10. Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Camp Albemarle The Moormans River

11. 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?

12. Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Life Cycles

13. Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools incomplete metamorphosis Life Cycles

14. Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Life Cycles & Habitats

15. Albemarle County Public Schools Tolerant Critters Organisms that are not sensitive to polluted and/or stagnant water…they can live just about anywhere!

16. Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Crane fly

17. Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Aquatic Worm

18. Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Blackfly

19. Albemarle County Public Schools Somewhat Sensitive Critters Organisms that are sensitive to polluted and stagnant water…their water needs to be a little bit cleaner to survive!

20. Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Dobsonfly Hellgrammite

21. Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Dragonfly Damselfly

22. Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Water Penny

23. Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Water Penny

24. Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Water Penny

25. Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Water Penny

26. Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Crayfish

27. Albemarle County Public Schools Very Sensitive Critters Organisms that are very sensitive to polluted & stagnant water…their water had better be clean if they are to survive!

28. Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Mayfly

29. Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Mayfly

30. Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Mayfly

31. Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Mayfly

32. Meaningful Watershed Experience Albemarle County Public Schools Stonefly

33. 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.

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

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

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