Stream Surveying
Karen Williams
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Montana State University
This activity was selected for the On the Cutting Edge Reviewed Teaching Collection
This activity has received positive reviews in a peer review process involving five review categories. The five categories included in the process are
- Scientific Accuracy
- Alignment of Learning Goals, Activities, and Assessments
- Pedagogic Effectiveness
- Robustness (usability and dependability of all components)
- Completeness of the ActivitySheet web page
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Initial Publication Date: April 28, 2008 | Reviewed: June 8, 2013
- First Publication: April 28, 2008
- Reviewed: June 8, 2013 -- Reviewed by the On the Cutting Edge Activity Review Process
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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.
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Fluvial Grade Level
College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
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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.
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