ACWA

Aquatic Connection and Watershed Awareness

3rd Grade Offerings
What About Water?
Students use water as a basis for exploring how wetlands function and wetland organisms survive.

Welcome to Wetlands
Students learn about the water cycle through game play and discussion. Students then use what they have learned to identify different players in the water cycle along the boardwalk. Students discuss if/how each player is influenced by people and learn how conserving water at home helps to protect wetlands. Closed-toed shoes required. 

Critter Competition
Students are given a challenge to find examples of plants and animals that compete with one another in a wetland environment. Students look closely at the organisms and identify adaptations that help them meet their specific needs. Students identify how certain adaptations specially prepare organisms for aquatic life. Bring a change of shoes and clothes. Students will get wet and muddy. Closed-toed shoes required.

Florida Sunshine State Standards
Grade-Level Expectations
SC.A.2.2.1 The student uses a tool to observe and study minute details of objects (for example, hand lens).
SC.D.1.2.2 The student knows that approximately 75 percent of the surface of the Earth is covered by water.
SC.D.1.2.3 The student understands that stages of the water cycle (for example, evaporation, condensation, precipitation).
SC.D.2.2.1 The student knows that reusing, recycling, and reducing the use of natural resources improves and protects the quality of life.
SC.F.1.2.2 The student understands the various ways that animals depend on plants for survival (for example, food, shelter, oxygen).
SC.G.1.2.2 The student knows how organisms with similar needs in a climatic region compete with one another for resources such as food, water, oxygen, or space. The student knows behavioral and structural adaptations that allow plants and animals to survive in an environment.
SC.G.2.2.1 The student understands that plants and animals share and compete for limited resources such as oxygen, water, food, and space.

Reservations are required a minimum of one month in advance.
Reservations are taken on a first-come, first served basis.
Contact Sam Dorfman, ACWA Program Coordinator at (561) 804-4985.