Stream Surveying
This is a multi-week field activity to teach basic stream surveying using FS methods, and using the collected data to calculate basic hydrologic and hydraulic parameters.
Context
Audience: Undergrad water resources
Skills and concepts that students must have mastered: basic math
How the activity is situated in the course: Multi-week activity, building aupon previous field activities.
Goals
Content/concepts goals for this activity: measuring and characterizing basic channel morphology
Higher order thinking skills goals for this activity: collection and analysis of data
Other skills goals for this activity: basic surveying
Description of the activity/assignment
The class breaks into groups of 3-4. Each week we go out to the same stream channel, and perform the stream survey activities in the USFS Harrelson document, one chapter per week. After the snow flies, collected data are used to calculate channel hydrologic and hydraulic data such as bankfull flow and critical shear stress.
Designed for a geomorphology course
Determining whether students have met the goals
Each group turns in a field book of the collected data, and uses collected data to answer questions.
More information about assessment tools and techniques.Download teaching materials and tips
- Activity Description/Assignment (Acrobat (PDF) 4MB Apr28 08)
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